No ‘app drawer’ more present in Android N – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

It looks like Google in next version of the Android operating system, currently known as “Android N ‘, mainly focusing on the” improvement “of the interface. One of the biggest changes in the interface promises the disappearance of the ‘app drawer’, or a separate menu, are to go.

 
 

The rumors about the disappearance of the app drawer Android N sing some time around. In recent days, more and more evidence that this is the case. Google Maps recently published example above video on Twitter on Google Maps, made on an Android smartphone, which no app drawer was more visible. It would appear to be obvious that this video was made consciously or unconsciously on a smartphone with an early version of Android N.

App drawer now standard in Android

the standard Android interface is at the center bottom of the screen always a button with a separate menu which collected all apps on the smartphone. However, more and more manufacturers are choosing this menu, ie remove the ‘app drawer’ of the interface and combine with the home screens.

Huawei is the clearest example. Huawei provides homescreens with widgets. Further, when swept to the right users get into the main menu. The main menu is therefore de facto part of the home screen.

App drawer disabled by default on new LG G5

In addition to Huawei, the smartphones of many other Chinese smartphone to manufacturers no app drawer anymore. The new LG G5, which last week was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​the app drawer standard also appears to be disabled. Users of the phone can activate this otherwise still manually as GSM Helpdesk discovered.

Rumor: Google wants to add Cast support to television sets without … Android – Android World

According to rumors, Google with different manufacturers in talks to make it possible to cast content to a TV without this device runs on Android TV. This would be made a tablet to control the TV, which also content can choose which you want to stream.

Casting without Android TV?

There are several manufacturers that their TV sets equip with Android TV, including models from Philips, Sony and Sharp. This year will also include Bang & amp; Olufsen, Vestel and include Hisense will be equipped with this software. This creates a smart platform, so you can use various Internet or play games. One of those services is to stream content to such a device, such as a movie or episode of a series on Netflix. If you have your TV without Android TV example, you can buy the Google Chrome Cast to your TV ‘smart’.

Google would now have been in discussions with several manufacturers to allow the standard to content to stream such device using the Cast possibility, even if it is not equipped with Android TV. Variety is able to report that the first manufacturer that this is going to offer Vizio, mainly active in the US market. There would be at different Vizio-TVs are provided a tablet which can serve as a remote control, includes a digital guide and with which it is thus also possible to stream content to the television.

There is no special interface provided where the user can choose which app they want, but through apps on the tablet can thus music, movies or television series to be cast. This spring the Vizio devices probably on the market, but Google would be in talks with at least one other manufacturer to achieve this. The search giant and Vizio gave no reaction when the website they approached to ask about these rumors, so we’ll have to wait and see whether this information actually true

Source:. Variety

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Wordplay Lingo returns as an app for iOS and Android – NU.nl

Lingo app will be released in March for iOS and Android later this year, made television producer IDTV Monday. The app is free to download and according to the manufacturer accessible.

The television game was more than 27 years ago airs. On October 2, 2014 was the last episode on television. Due to disappointing ratings the curtain fell for the program

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According to former editor Lingo-Ton Push have since many fans when asked upon exiting the game. Lingo app was developed by IDTV and Utrecht developer Pause Play. The glossary is provided by Van Dale Uitgevers.

Earlier, the game appeared already in Belgium for iOS and Android. Users of Dutch app stores can not download that version

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WhatsApp stop supporting Android 2.1 Eclair and 2.2 Froyo – Android World

WhatsApp has announced to stop support for some older platforms, including Android versions prior to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Support for holding these older platforms by the end of 2016.

WhatsApp exists 7 years

WhatsApp made the announcement on his blog. Earlier this week, WhatsApp was 7 years old and according to the company is a good time to look back to the past. At the time of establishment BlackBerry and Nokia had around 70% market share of smartphones. Less than 25% of devices running on Android or iOS. New units sold currently run 99.5% on one of these two operating systems.

Due to changing market WhatsApp will focus on operating systems used by the vast majority of users. This also support falls away for BlackBerry (also BlackBerry 10), Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60 and Windows Phone 7.1.

Android 2.1 and 2.2

The Android support is coming too not will Android 2.1 Eclair and Android 2.2 Froyo no longer supported unscathed and from the end of the year. Android 2.1 came forward in January 2010. Android 2.2 end came out in 2011. Both versions of Android are years not extradited on new devices, but that does not mean that there are no gears longer in circulation that run on these older Android versions.

dial According to Google’s distribution figures currently 0.1% of the “active Android devices on Android 2.2. There are 1.4 billion Android devices that are used monthly active, and that would mean that 1.4 million Android devices are used which run on the older version.

The way these numbers are calculated, however, ensure that this number fails considerably lower than in reality. The monthly active Android devices (1.4 billion) are in fact devices that have an internet connection and that percentage (0.1%) refers to devices measured during the week which is active the Google Play store opened. This means that many people who use their phones only for example WhatsApp, will not be included in that figure.

Opinion of WhatsApp

WhatsApp indicates that the devices running the clipped systems have been very important to the history of the app, but they do not offer the ability to expand the app in the future. The decision was, according to WhatsApp very difficult, but also the right. In the coming months the company wants more focus on security, such as the verification of secure connections. In addition, there will also be “new possibilities come to stay in touch with people” coming and possible strikes on videobelmogelijkheden in WhatsApp.

The company recommends users to switch to a newer Android device, iPhone or Windows Phone device by the end of 2016 in order to continue using WhatsApp.

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WhatsApp stops support for older Android versions – Android Planet

From the end of this year WhatsApp stop supporting Android 2.1 (Eclair) and Android 2.2 (Froyo). The company that wants to focus on security.

That makes WhatsApp announced via a blog post. Besides the old Android versions also get BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 7.1 not in the future plans. The main reason is that the company wants to focus on the security of its chat app. Since Android 2.1 and 2.2 but is used by a small group of users and now are severely outdated, WhatsApp stop supporting this. That means you need to run from the end of this year at least Android 2.3 yet to receive updates. For many users, this will not be a problem, since smartphones today often come with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) or later.

However, there are many devices that are running Android 2.1 and 2.2. The distribution figures, which Google monthly releases, shows that 0.1 percent of all Android devices currently on Android 2.2 (Froyo) running. This may seem little, but because of the huge amount of Android users out there, this number should not be underestimated.

Earlier this week it was announced that WhatsApp end-to-end encryption get for telephone and group discussions. This makes WhatsApp and others can not overhear and -watch. In addition, users will receive a notification when they are in a chat session that has not fully used end-to-end encryption. This is possible if one of the participants used an older version of WhatsApp that does not support encryption.

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Intel makes Android smartphones seen with desktop feature – Android World

Modern smartphones offer much processing power and speed that they can also be used for desktop applications. There are several companies that make it possible to connect a smart phone on a display, mouse and keyboard in order to serve as an alternative to a desktop computer. Intel presented this week its solution.

Desktop Linux alongside Android

At the Mobile World Congress in 2011, we were very impressed by the Motorola Atrix. This smartphone can be placed in a docking station, after which he can conjure a desktop environment on a monitor. This system, when Motorola Webtop called, but never broken

A year later, Canonical presented a similar solution in the form of Ubuntu for Android. Addition to the Android system can run a real Linux environment on the desktop. This system is not broken.

Microsoft Windows 10 is available Continuum, which basically does the same. When a keyboard, mouse and monitor are connected to a Windows 10 smartphone will start a desktop environment.

Demonstration Intel

At the Mobile World Congress earlier this month Intel also shows left to work on a solution in which Android runs alongside a desktop environment based on Linux (Debian). The prototype smartphone runs on an Intel Atom x3 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Because Android also runs on a Linux base, this base can be shared with the desktop operating system. This makes it easy to share files and data between the two platforms.

At present it is not possible to use the screen of the device itself when the desktop environment is running, but it is the “image” or displayed on the external monitor. At the next generation of processors, this is possible in accordance with Intel. The company tried at the Mobile World Congress to convince manufacturers of the idea and shows that this solution is already ready for production.

Google plans

do all rumors times circulating that Google plans to merge Android and Chrome OS. These rumors are repeatedly debunked by Google. However, there is a good possibility that Google in a similar way to Microsoft, Canonical, Motorola and Intel plans to provide Android devices Chrome OS is started when a keyboard, mouse and monitor are connected.

in addition to the rumors about Chrome OS we know that Android N improvements will be seen in the area of ​​the tablet display. After the introduction of the pixel C, there were many complaints about that Android would not be suitable as “productivity platform and these changes will probably also increase the ability of Android as a desktop operating system

Source:. There Yesterday

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Microsoft pulls plug from Project Astoria: No Android apps on mobile … – Hardware.Info

by Mark the Luijtgaarden Friday, February 26, 2016 22:18 source: Microsoft

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Windows 10 is now on all platforms a whole thanks to the so-called universal apps , though it will nevertheless no secret the Windows Store terms of supply out comes close to Android or iOS. For that hole to close Microsoft last year began Project Astoria, which eventually Android applications directly had to work on the (mobile) Windows 10 machines.

 

Meanwhile, the Redmond company has on its official blog announced that the plug has been pulled out of that project. The feedback, which showed that there is no need for two different Bridge-technologies in order to transfer the code of mobile operating systems such as Android to Windows. The choice between the various options would also be able to cause confusion.

 

On the basis of the decision is the recent acquisition of Xamarin, a company that also offers a universal platform. The C # code to the universal apps Windows 10 used may Xamarin similarly be converted largely to native to develop applications for iOS and Android.

 

Three Bridges called now remain: the Web Bridge Centennial Project and Project Wood Island. With former can be based on HTML and JavaScript web applications easily convert to a format that accepts the Windows Store. Centennial does the same for Win32 and .NET-based apps and Island Wood (ie Windows Bridge for iOS) will convert finally Objective-C apps from iOS.

 

The acquisition of Xamarin makes Project Astoria superfluous, Microsoft said

 

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Microsoft will stop developing Android apps conversion option – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

The ability for developers to easily convert an existing Android app to a Windows Phone app will never appear. Microsoft has pulled the plug on Project Astoria. Under this code name the functionality was developed that allows Android apps to Windows apps could be translated.

Microsoft is going to do more with Project Island Wood, a similar project that iOS apps can be translated to Windows apps. Although there are meanwhile more Android apps than iOS apps, iOS apps still appear to be the most popular.

The development of conversion options of both Android and iOS apps would provide little additional income. Most Android apps are available for iOS and vice versa. Offering one conversion option is therefore in the eyes of Microsoft sufficient.

Under the leadership of Steve Ballmer bewint, former CEO of Microsoft, Project Astoria has started. Last year, Ballmer called for continuation of the project after the current CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella by increasingly Ballmer projects was to draw a line. Last year were already rumors that Microsoft was going to stop the development of conversion capabilities of Android apps.

Facebook allows live streaming available for Android – NU.nl

Facebook announced on Friday that Live for Android app is rolled out over the next week for US users, and the feature also appears in other countries.

Users of the Facebook app on iOS could has long videos live streaming. Next to the text box in which users can write their status update, and an icon to a live stream can be set up.

Creators can see while recording how people look when friends watch and what observations are made. After recording, the video will be stored on the Timeline

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Microsoft dumps plan for porting Android apps – Automation Guide

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Microsoft abandons his intention to enable developers to easily way to make their Android apps for the Windows platform

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the rationale for the decision is certainly not Microsoft want to discourage developers to make their apps compatible with Windows. Microsoft, however, that there are plenty of tools are available to do so. There comes the plug from Project Astoria, which was announced at the BUILD developer conference in April last year.

Xamarin takes over the role

There were already rumors that the project was short-lived. Microsoft made the decision yesterday officially announced. The announcement comes a day after Microsoft Xaramin took over. That company makes development tool that allows developers to design applications which they can then easily write native code for different platforms.

Microsoft also has a ‘Bridge’ technology which is designed to legacy apps to easily accommodate the latest version of the operating system. This can also iOS and Android apps to be adjusted. Microsoft said yesterday in a blog will not need two bridge technologies have together because it causes nothing but confusion.

Magazines Maggy app launched for Android – Android World

Maggy is a Dutch start-up founded in 2015 and is available for download since last month on iOS, but now also released for Android. With the app you can read on payment of a fixed amount per month 32 Dutch journals.

Maggy

Fervent reader of English magazines such as Look, Sovereigns, Formula 1, Cosmopolitan, Quote, Elle, Esquire or Free Netherlands then subscribe to the new service Maggy might be something for you. With this application you have clear access to 32 Dutch journals for which you have to pay € 5.99 per month. Several publishers have joined the Dutch start-up and 70% of the revenue goes to the publishers. The more articles are read, the more money publishers make, because there can be digitally recorded which articles are widely read.

Maggy was in January released for iOS and the first experiences with the app are taken to design and the functionality of the Android version. Thus, the application by the developer clearer and based on Material Design guidelines of Google. “The feedback Maggy has received to date for the iOS app is included and the period ahead converted to various updates to the application on both operating systems,” said Rutger Tijkotte CFO Maggy. It can be given to the clarity of the app and improvements to encourage their use.

The application currently only works on smartphones, but a version for the iPad is also underway. A version for tablets with Android, the start-up yet released anything. You can use the app for the first 30 days for free and then see if it meets your needs, then you pay € 5.99 per month for the subscription, which is also to say on a monthly basis.

Availability

The app, which so only on smartphones with Android 4.0.3 or later, is free to download via the button below.

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow also underway for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge + – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

Samsung is in her homeland South Korea started rolling out the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge +. This means that the update within a few weeks also may be expected in the Netherlands and Belgium.

On Tuesday, Samsung has launched in the Netherlands and Belgium to roll out its Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the ‘normal’ Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.

For Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge +, the upcoming update will provide a welcome addition to the functionality of the so-called ‘Edge screen, the rounded portion of the screen. As it was announced late last year makes the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for expanded functionality.

Until now, the Galaxy S6 Edge + only the ‘People Edge’ and the ‘Apps Edge’ available. This could shortcuts to five favorite contacts and five favorite apps are created on the Edge screen. Incoming messages or calls from one of the five favorite contacts, light Edge screen then also in the preset color of the relevant contact. With all this, however, rather limited functionality of the Edge screen.

In the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow is considerably more functionality for Edge screen, according to new information. In addition to the People Edge and Edge Apps, there is now also a panel on ‘My Places’ showing the most recently used apps. Furthermore, a “Tasks Edge added shortcuts to relevant apps. The Android 6.0.1 update includes a Marshmallow ‘Quick Tools Edge’ with location and compass information and shortcuts to the S Planner, weather, Twitter trends, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports.

more control over privacy

of course, the update also brings many advantages of Android 6.0 Marshmallow itself to the Galaxy S6 Edge +. Thanks to the Android 6.0 update Marshmallow both devices will benefit from the latest features and improvements that Google has stopped in Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

The most important new feature is the “permission manager. This allows users to indicate what system resources an application is allowed to use or not the application. In this way, users have more control over their privacy.

Energy saving

Android 6.0 Marshmallow will make both units also energy efficient. The update namely also brings the function “Doze” along with it. This feature optimizes the power consumption at the time that the Galaxy S6 Edge + are in standby mode.

Availability Update

Samsung has now started in South Korea rolling out the Android 6.0 update for the Galaxy S6 Marshmallow Edge +. When the update will be available in the Netherlands and Belgium is not yet known. It is expected that the update will be released within a few weeks. More information and all the specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge + collected on our extensive Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge + overview page.

Android booth at Mobile World Congress: Google grabs again – Android World

Google took in our time at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona big time. The company had, for example in 2011, a slide on the stand and then we could eat Ice Cream Sandwiches. This year Google has one of the courtyards fully adopted at the MWC.

Badges, pins and more pins

Traditionally, Google Android badges to all its partners. These clips are then deposited on the partner stands and MWC visitors are challenged to collect all the badges.

All the clips have a matching sticker and when you have enough stickers, you will be eligible for a bronze, silver or even “golden” Android badge. This year there were to collect 87 different pins at the different stands.

Marshmallow smoothies

Google has turned into one of the courtyards of the Mobile World Congress to Android garden. With (fake) plants in the form of Android mascots and a couple of big Android shaped booths company immediately gives a looser meaning to the normally drab collection of food stalls and seating.

When you as Mobile World Congress visitors are hungry or thirsty, you can choose to eat a hamburger small menu for 17 euros, but you can also stop by one of the Android stands in the garden for an (un) healthy Marshmallow smoothie.

Goblets and rows

Google offers almost every year, in addition to stickers, also a perk. So was it ever possible to smartphone cases with ‘crystals’ to make an Android tablet controlled robot. This year the company gives personalized goblets away. The application Androidify make you a verandroidiseerde ‘version of yourself, and this image is put in a cup with your name.

A nice souvenir of the Mobile World Congress, or perhaps a great gift for the home front will you might think. Unfortunately, the Google gift proved quite popular and walked the rows until a certain hour: for us not to do with a busy schedule. However, we still had some time to make a Androidify sticker ourselves.

Our impressions of the presence of Google with Android at Mobile World Congress you see in the video below.

Android Experiments

We know Android Experiments already as a digital repository for interesting Android applications. This may for interesting concepts for live wallpapers, but also games that make use of new technologies. Also powered by Android inventions welcome, as we saw on the Android Experiments stand in the Android garden. Here, for example, were demonstrated interesting watch faces and live wallpapers, but also physical concepts were also present.

A nice example is the experiment where a portrait is put in order to sketch on paper. This is done by two ropes to which a pin depends to send. The result can be called in any case very interesting.

Closed doors

Google is the biggest mobile fair in the world an opportunity par excellence to meet possible partners in a short time and that the company makes sure use. Google has also a more upscale, private booth which also completely in Android style.

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Popular screen dimming app F.lux way to Android – Android Planet

F.lux, a popular desktop app to dim your screen and to reduce the amount of blue light also comes to Android. Earlier F.lux was still denied access to the App Store.

F.lux is the best known, but certainly not the first screen dimming app for Android. With Twilight is already an excellent and free way, if desired, automatically adjust the brightness and color temperature of your smartphone screen. This should prevent your evenings worse doze off when bedtime a while check your smartphone or tablet

the blue light of the screen sees to it that there is less of the sleep hormone melatonin is produced. Not everyone will there have the same problem, but you can sleep there certainly suffer under.

You can already sign up now via the forum F.lux for the beta of F.lux. However, you must first be admitted and a rooted phone to be able to use the app. When we F.lux expect exactly Google Play is not yet known, but Redmond Pie reports that the app will soon be available.

Automatic dimming

the idea behind Twilight – and therefore F.lux – is that the screen so the day just the default brightness and color reserves, but it is a very subtle piece redder in the course of the evening. This goes unnoticed when you pick up your phone regularly to. You can also choose your phone by holding red all day, but it has no clear benefits.

If you indicate where you live, the time of sunset and sunrise are automatically found and and the screen dimmed at the right times. There are also options to set in the time itself, or to adjust. The app even has an option for “civil sunset times” for when you really something rather go out of your nest. Can not wait for the official release of F.lux, you can download it from the link below Twilight.

→ Download Twilight in Google Play (free)

Android Sale: Deals from February 24, 2016 – Android World

In this article you will find offers from today, 24 February 2016. We see some apps and games, but also the best deals on smartphones in combination with a subscription.

Offers Apps Play Store

→ Call Reminder Notes – take notes during conversations – € 1.52

→ calls Blacklist Pro – block numbers – € 0.50

→ Deep Galaxies HD Deluxe – Wallpaper app – € 1.09
→ Fast Burst Camera – Photos, photos, photos, photos, photos – € 0.97

still on sale

→ Animated Photo Frame Widget – Digital Photo Frame – € 1.10

→ Astro Pro – Advanced file manager – € 3.23
→ Couch to 5K – Digital track coach – € 2.17

→ Muffin Icon Pack – Homnomnom – € 0.98

→ Twilight Unlock Pro – Colour temperature adjust your screen – € 0.99

Offers games Play Store

→ Castle of Illusion – Mickey’s adventures game – € 4.99

→ Doom Dark’s Revenge – Strategic game – € 1.49

→ DuckTales Remastered – Disney game – € 4.99

→ Dungeon Raid – 3-in-a-row – € 0.77

→ Into the Void – Spaceship shooter – € 2, 17
→ Queen’s Quest – Puzzled adventure – € 2.45

→ Rochard – Side-shooter – € 2.99

→ The Lords of Midnight – Classic game – € 1.49

still on sale

→ AirAttack HD – Let the bombs but fall – € 1 , 99

→ Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – 40% discount – € 3.32

→ Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath – Android variant of well-known game – € 3.25

Offers smartphones / tablets

→ Free – Samsung Galaxy S7 for € 35 per month

→ Free – Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus for € 37 per month

→ Free – Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge for € 32 per month

→ € 52 – Huawei Nexus 6P for € 31 per month

→ Free – Samsung Galaxy S6 € 29 per month

→ Free – Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge for € 39 per month

→ Free – LG Nexus 5X 16GB for € 25 per month

→ free – LG G4 for € 24 per month

→ free – Motorola Moto G 3rd Gen 8GB for € 15 per month

→ free – Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for € 28 per month

→ Free – Samsung Galaxy J5 for € 15 per month

→ Free – Honor 5X for € 16 per month

→ Free – HTC One M9 for € 27 per month

→ Free – Motorola Moto X Play for € 22 per month

→ Free – Sony Xperia Z5 Compact for € 26 per month

→ Free – Sony Xperia Z5 for € 32 per month

→ € 97 – in Motorola Moto X-Force for € 54 per month

The above data are carefully collected. Prices of applications and games are taken from the Google Play store, the prices of smartphones are inherited from our partners. The apparatus is a so-called affiliate code, making Android World receives a fee for each unit sold. This is further dealt with the partner, the buyer does not notice this.

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