Guru returns.
Show Notes
- Android News
- March distribution numbers: Lollipop at 36.1%, Marshmallow 2.3%, KitKat 34.3%, Jellybean 22.2%
- How Android Wear and Ambient Display can decrease your phone’s battery drain.
- Google I/O 2016 site is live…but as the podcast was in hiatus, you missed registration by now.
- Explore the new Google Play Developer Policy Center
- Android N
- Preview of Android N released.
- Android TV supports multiple recorded sessions for DVR-like functionality.
- Default Dialer app can now screen incoming calls.
- Optimizing Apps Screen gone in Android N
- Android N may separate out more parts of the operating system so updates of certain elements can come separate from manufacturer area updates.
- Expanded System Tuner options, with auto-rotate status symbol, headset, etc.
- Emergency Info added to lock screen.
- Multi-window/split screen modes
- Bundled Notifications
- Improved Java 8 language support
- New data saver option for limited cell plans.
- App News
- In Other News
- Google says it won’t google jurors in upcoming Oracle API copyright trial.
- Ray Tomlinson who popularized the @ symbol in email, dies at 74
- Men behind Diffie-Hellman key exchange receive top computer science prize.
- FCC wants internet providers to ask your permission before sharing data.
- New White House initiative pledges broadband to 20 million more people by 2020.
- Dropbox now has over 500 million registered users.
- The end of subsidized smartphones means U.S. smartphone sales are down.
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