Episode 405 – Podcast Not Allowed

By | July 26, 2018
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Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Android Distribution numbers updated. Oreo is at 12.1%, Nougat at 30.8%, Marshmallow at 23.5%, Lollipop at 20.4%
    • Proposed API would bring notification badges to Android and web apps on Chromebooks
    • Google’s support library for developers, AndroidX, is available on AOSP.
    • Android Dev Summit in Mountainview November 7-8
    • Android has created more choice, not less
  • App News
    • You can now video call people on Duo using Google Assistant
    • Chromebooks to support continued reading from Chrome tabs opened on Android.
  • In Other News
    • C64 Mini retro gaming console coming to North America in October
    • Here’s to Five Years of Chromecast
    • A Milestone for Chrome Security: marking HTTP as ‘not secure’
    • Youtube TV needs a big revenue ad boost to become profitable
    • Best alternatives to Project Fi
    • Google’s employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017.
    • Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft involved in the Data Transfer Project to make switching seamless.

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