Google brings second developer preview for Android Things … – Tweakers

Google has released the second developer preview released its Android Things platform, as the operating system for iot devices. In this version include support for Google’s TensorFlow. That is a software library for self-learning systems.

In the announcement of the preview says that in addition to new features, bug fixes are part of the new release. One of the features of Android Things is the use of TensorFlow. To do this, the company has a sample released, on the basis of which it is possible to display an image by the system to recognize. After the image is recognized, the system can by means of text-to-speech to announce what the recognized object is.

another new feature is support for usb audio for the Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi 3. Support for bluetooth, however, have to wait for, according to Google. With the new release is Android Things can now also be used on the Intel Joule, and there is support added for user drivers, who are on a special page.

Google introduced Android Things in december as an evolution of the existing operating system, Brillo. The advantage of that version is that developers can make use of the well-known Android tools such as Android Studio, the Google Cloud Platform, Google Play Services and the Android sdk. Android Things is in addition to the above-mentioned devices can also be used on a NXP Pico.

Google brings second developer preview for Android Things – Tweakers

Google has released the second developer preview released its Android Things platform, as the operating system for iot devices. In this version include support for Google’s TensorFlow. That is a software library for self-learning systems.

In the announcement of the preview says that in addition to new features, bug fixes are part of the new release. One of the features of Android Things is the use of TensorFlow. To do this, the company has a sample released, on the basis of which it is possible to display an image by the system to recognize. After the image is recognized, the system can by means of text-to-speech to announce what the recognized object is.

another new feature is support for usb audio for the Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi 3. Support for bluetooth, however, have to wait for, according to Google. With the new release is Android Things can now also be used on the Intel Joule, and there is support added for user drivers, who are on a special page.

Google introduced Android Things in december as an evolution of the existing operating system, Brillo. The advantage of that version is that developers can make use of the well-known Android tools such as Android Studio, the Google Cloud Platform, Google Play Services and the Android sdk. Android Things is in addition to the above-mentioned devices can also be used on a NXP Pico.

Affordable Android-smartphones – High-end looks and features for low – Tweakers

Best buy: Wileyfox Swift 2 Gold

Wileyfox the second year in a row the best budgetsmartphone know. What really over the populace stands out, are the sturdy metal enclosure with finger print scanner and usb‑c connector, the smooth functioning of the unit and the pleasant software. Unfortunately, we must wait and see if that software is so good, because Wileyfox forced, it’s about an other bow to throw in the next time. All in all, this is a solid all-rounder with upward spikes. Price publication: € 185,-

The round-up of budget-Androids who, last year, we wrote, is so well read that we have a sequel had to come. In addition to the practical question of which unit you should buy, it appeared that the differences in itself already larger than what we usually encounter in comparisons of high-end smartphones. Then was our mouth open from the differences in cameraprestaties, although the phones are similar priced.

in Short, reason enough to go back to a comparative test to do and all the benchmarks in our protocol to let loose on budgetsmartphones that on paper are sometimes a good buy. We have the most interesting devices tested that we could find between the 170 and the 190 euro. The exception is the Chinese Meizu M5, which is 155 euros of cost with 2GB ram and 16GB storage, and 198 euro with 3GB of ram and 32GB of storage. In addition, you can choose whether you slightly below or slightly above our fixed budget wants to go.

The best thing to a test as this is perhaps that you can see what attributes and former innovations of the high-end class now spilled over to the budget boats. We tell you that the finger print scanner is suddenly a much respected guest, and that metal and glass are also no longer strangers. In this regard, the budget boats in a year certainly improved.

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Best buy: Wileyfox Swift 2 Gold

Wileyfox the second year in a row the best budgetsmartphone know. What really over the populace stands out, are the sturdy metal enclosure with finger print scanner and usb‑c connector, the smooth functioning of the unit and the pleasant software. Unfortunately, we must wait and see if that software is so good, because Wileyfox forced, it’s about an other bow to throw in the next time. All in all, this is a solid all-rounder with upward spikes. Price publication: € 185,-

The round-up of budget-Androids who, last year, we wrote, is so well read that we have a sequel had to come. In addition to the practical question of which unit you should buy, it appeared that the differences in itself already larger than what we usually encounter in comparisons of high-end smartphones. Then was our mouth open from the differences in cameraprestaties, although the phones are similar priced.

in Short, reason enough to go back to a comparative test to do and all the benchmarks in our protocol to let loose on budgetsmartphones that on paper are sometimes a good buy. We have the most interesting devices tested that we could find between the 170 and the 190 euro. The exception is the Chinese Meizu M5, which is 155 euros of cost with 2GB ram and 16GB storage, and 198 euro with 3GB of ram and 32GB of storage. In addition, you can choose whether you slightly below or slightly above our fixed budget wants to go.

The best thing to a test as this is perhaps that you can see what attributes and former innovations of the high-end class now spilled over to the budget boats. We tell you that the finger print scanner is suddenly a much respected guest, and that metal and glass are also no longer strangers. In this regard, the budget boats in a year certainly improved.

Nvidia Shield Tablet Android 7.0 update is being slowly rolled out – Android Planet

With the Nvidia Shield Tablet Android 7.0-update, the tablet from 2014 a new life with a stack of new features. Also the Shield Tablet, the K1 will get this update.

are you Using the Nvidia Shield Tablet of 2014? Not crazy, because it is still an excellent device. Thanks to the ongoing support of Nvidia, you can now also have a stack of new features to enjoy. The company is the rollout of Android 7.0 (Nougat) for the device started. Nougat is wrapped in Shield Experience 5.0 for the tablet, which is also available for the newer Nvidia Shield Tablet K1. This new update rolls out as well, only a bit slower than you’re used to, but that is intentional.

With Android 7.0 get the gametablets support for split-screen. This means that your two apps simultaneously on the screen can rotate. Also, the notifications are improved. Thus, notifications from the same app bundled and you can directly from a notification to respond. Also Android 7.0 is better with the battery of devices. Also, it provides update support for new emoji.

An addition specifically for the Shield Tablet (K1) is true is that there are more controllers to be supported, such as the controller which with the latest Shield Android TV bundled. There are also Shield Rewards was introduced, a way to earn rewards for the long use of the different Shield devices.

When at the beginning of 2016 Android 6.0 Marshmallow was rolled out to the tablet, there went the one and the other wrong. Many a Shield Tablet user, for example, had no working wi-fi and more. So we had to Nvidia temporarily the update to stop and could some owners their tablet is not in use. To avoid problems, rolls Nvidia’s Shield Experience 5.0 update with Nougat, therefore, now a little slower. It is therefore well possible that the update must wait.

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“Android and iPhone users want to not dating’ – Android Planet

as an Android user difficult to score with iPhone fans, according to a new study. Dating with owners of a different operating system primarily delivers cries.

Android users tend to be people fifteen times a negative review if they have an iPhone, according to research from Match.com. The dating site conducted research into how people their ideal partner to figure out. In total, 5500 Americans questioned about the invoices that for them to play in finding a partner.

Smartphonevoorkeuren play apparently a major role. If we research may believe are iPhone owners, however, still more critical about Android fans than vice versa. An iPhone owner is actually 21 times more likely to be an Android user in a negative rate, while the other way around just fifteen times. That suggests that the willingness for Android dating in users with a 'competing' operating system, but low is located.

The site gives no explanation for the answers of the respondents. Also, there is no distinction between the various brands. For instance, we know not, for example, or Huawei-fans or by a single door with Samsung users.

Fix your screen

another big turn-off: broken screens. Women are 86 percent more likely to make a man unattractive to find if he has a device with gebarst screen. However, that is something that mainly plays among older generations. Millenials, there may be generally great to live with, while baby boomers and Generation X-the elderly, is seriously disturbing to a smartphone with defects.

The best recipe for a good date, however, the smartphone, according to research. A majority wants that you are not calling, texting, or even your phone on the table during a conversation or dinner party. The vast majority of the respondents is also not a fan of overactive users of social media. Especially types that a lot of complaining on Facebook have it rough: 58 percent want nothing to do with it.

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12 at the 1000 Android devices running Android 7.0 or 7.1 … – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

Each month Google figures about the use of all versions of the Android operating system. In January is very much changed. Android 2.2 Froyo in 2010, disappeared from the list because the share of this Android version under the 0.1 percent it had dropped. New in the list was Android 7.1. Between the reporting in early January, and the new reporting that Google has now released sit less great results.

the new figures show that the combined share of Android 7.0 and Android 7.1, the most recent versions of the Androdi os is now above one percent. Android 7.1 Nougat is now running on 0.3 percent of all Android devices in the world and Android 7.0 is already on 0.9 percent. Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the penultimate version of Android, is now on 30.7 percent of all smartphones and is thus the largest individual Android version of this time.

The share of Android 6.0 Marshmallow is last month with a 1.1 percent growth. The share of Android 5.1 Lollipop, which is currently the three youngest Android version of the app for the first time light fell from 23,3 to 23.1 percent.

Android Lollipop still the greatest

Android 5.0 Lollipop and Android 5.1 Lollipop are now collectively still the largest with a share of 32.1 percent, compared to 33.4 percent at the beginning of January. The decline in the share of Android 5.0, and 5.1 Lollipop has thus further persevered in. The largest individual Android version is since december 2016, Android 6.0 Marshmallow and the position last month further reinforced. Android 6.0 Marsmallow is now running on 30.7 percent of all Android smartphones, a small increase compared to the start of January when another 29.6% of all Android devices are running on Android 6.0 Nougat. Android 4.4 kit kat is currently at 21.9 percent of all devices, and has thus 0.7 percent loss last month.

	January 9, 2017	February 6, 2017
Android 2.3 Gingerbread	1.0%	1.0% of
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich	1,1%	1.0% of
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean	4,0%	4,0%
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean	5,9%	5,7%
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean	1.7%	1.6% of the
Android 4.4 kit kat	for 22.6%	21.9%
Android 5.0 Lollipop	a 10.1%	9.8% in
Android 5.1 Lollipop	23,3%	23,1%
Android 6.0 Marshmallow	29,6%	30,7%
Android 7.0 Nougat	0,5%	0,9%
Android 7.1 Nougat	0,2%	0,3%
© GSM Helpdesk Netherlands – source: Android Developers

Only the three latest Android version grow even

All versions older than Android 6.0 Marshmallow lose, piece by piece, share, or remain in terms of share equal to the beginning of January. For the twelfth month in a row shrinks, the share of Android 5.0 Lollipop. In addition, the share of Android 5.1 Lollipop is on its peak and now has a drop used. The share of the 5-year-old Android 2.3 continued last month remained stable at 1 percent.

Android 7.0 Nougat

In the figures of Google now for the fourth time, mention was made of Android 7.0 Nougat and for the second time of Android 7.1 Nougat. These new Android versions were respectively in August and October 2016 released. For several Nexus smartphones is already an update to Android 7.0 and 7.1 Nougat available, so there is already hundreds of thousands of devices in circulation on this new version of Android to run. At the moment all 12 on the active 1000 Android smartphones worldwide with Android 7.0 or 7.1 Nougat.

Monthly measurement

Google meet monthly, the ‘fragmentation’ of the Android operating system for 7 days to see which Android smartphones the Google Play Store visit and on which version of Android these devices run. This information is mainly for application developers to interest. App developers can, on the basis of the statistics to determine which Android versions they support, and what ‘potential’ they are at the moment they are lower versions of Android no longer support. The figures give also a good impression of how many Android smartphones worldwide are vulnerable to dangerous vulnerabilities found in older versions of Android.

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12 at the 1000 Android devices running Android 7.0 or 7.1 Nougat – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

Each month Google figures about the use of all versions of the Android operating system. In January is very much changed. Android 2.2 Froyo in 2010, disappeared from the list because the share of this Android version under the 0.1 percent it had dropped. New in the list was Android 7.1. Between the reporting in early January, and the new reporting that Google has now released sit less great results.

the new figures show that the combined share of Android 7.0 and Android 7.1, the most recent versions of the Androdi os is now above one percent. Android 7.1 Nougat is now running on 0.3 percent of all Android devices in the world and Android 7.0 is already on 0.9 percent. Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the penultimate version of Android, is now on 30.7 percent of all smartphones and is thus the largest individual Android version of this time.

The share of Android 6.0 Marshmallow is last month with a 1.1 percent growth. The share of Android 5.1 Lollipop, which is currently the three youngest Android version of the app for the first time light fell from 23,3 to 23.1 percent.

Android Lollipop still the greatest

Android 5.0 Lollipop and Android 5.1 Lollipop are now collectively still the largest with a share of 32.1 percent, compared to 33.4 percent at the beginning of January. The decline in the share of Android 5.0, and 5.1 Lollipop has thus further persevered in. The largest individual Android version is since december 2016, Android 6.0 Marshmallow and the position last month further reinforced. Android 6.0 Marsmallow is now running on 30.7 percent of all Android smartphones, a small increase compared to the start of January when another 29.6% of all Android devices are running on Android 6.0 Nougat. Android 4.4 kit kat is currently at 21.9 percent of all devices, and has thus 0.7 percent loss last month.

	January 9, 2017	February 6, 2017
Android 2.3 Gingerbread	1.0%	1.0% of
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich	1,1%	1.0% of
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean	4,0%	4,0%
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean	5,9%	5,7%
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean	1.7%	1.6% of the
Android 4.4 kit kat	for 22.6%	21.9%
Android 5.0 Lollipop	a 10.1%	9.8% in
Android 5.1 Lollipop	23,3%	23,1%
Android 6.0 Marshmallow	29,6%	30,7%
Android 7.0 Nougat	0,5%	0,9%
Android 7.1 Nougat	0,2%	0,3%
© GSM Helpdesk Netherlands – source: Android Developers

Only the three latest Android version grow even

All versions older than Android 6.0 Marshmallow lose, piece by piece, share, or remain in terms of share equal to the beginning of January. For the twelfth month in a row shrinks, the share of Android 5.0 Lollipop. In addition, the share of Android 5.1 Lollipop is on its peak and now has a drop used. The share of the 5-year-old Android 2.3 continued last month remained stable at 1 percent.

Android 7.0 Nougat

In the figures of Google now for the fourth time, mention was made of Android 7.0 Nougat and for the second time of Android 7.1 Nougat. These new Android versions were respectively in August and October 2016 released. For several Nexus smartphones is already an update to Android 7.0 and 7.1 Nougat available, so there is already hundreds of thousands of devices in circulation on this new version of Android to run. At the moment all 12 on the active 1000 Android smartphones worldwide with Android 7.0 or 7.1 Nougat.

Monthly measurement

Google meet monthly, the ‘fragmentation’ of the Android operating system for 7 days to see which Android smartphones the Google Play Store visit and on which version of Android these devices run. This information is mainly for application developers to interest. App developers can, on the basis of the statistics to determine which Android versions they support, and what ‘potential’ they are at the moment they are lower versions of Android no longer support. The figures give also a good impression of how many Android smartphones worldwide are vulnerable to dangerous vulnerabilities found in older versions of Android.

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Google launches Android Wear 2.0 – NU.nl

Google has a major update for its smartwatch operating system was released. Android Wear 2.0 release watches under the more detached from a smartphone to function.

Android Wear 2.0 is to manufacturers of Android-smartwatch available. Just as with Android phones, it is up to the manufacturer when the update actually becomes available for watches.

Google has published a list which the most popular Android Wear watches are which the update are going to get. It includes the two versions of the LG 360, the Asus ZenWatch 2, and 3, LG Watch R and Urban, and the Huawei Watch.

Android Wear 2.0 has a own Play Store, which apps directly on the watch can be downloaded. This can make watches much more stand-alone be used, and the integration with iOS is also better than before.

Dials and navigation

Android Wear users could already choose from many thousands of dials, but they were still not easily customizable. With Android Wear 2.0, users can click the watch own colors, backgrounds and so-called complications to add.

Those little widgets that show info like the weather, appointments, or a pedometer. All the app-makers can now easily such complications of their apps make on the dial. Makers of dials that should still make them suitable for new options.

Also, the navigation is simplified in Android Wear 2.0. Thus, users can easily between different dials change by a horizontal swipe, and notifications with a vertical swipe to call. A press of a button the watch calls a apps list, long press activates Google Assistant.

Fitness and messages

Fitness is, according to Google, one of the most popular features of the smartwatch, and Android Wear 2.0 has a few innovations. So can a watch without a linked phone, the more accurate the tracking progress during running or cycling.

Also intramural sports as bandlopen and cycling on an exercise bike are now supported. Weight lifting is by Android Wear 2.0 is automatically detected, upon which the watch sets starts to count.

sending and responding to messages is also extended. This allows users to comment to say or dictate, but also swipe and type on a small toetsenbordje. In addition, Google may Assistant automatic responses proposals on the basis of the content of the messages, all works that are not yet in Dutch.

LG Sport and Style

LG in collaboration with Google’s two flagship-watches for Android Wear 2.0 being developed, the LG Watch Sport and Watch Style.

Both watches have a round display and a knob on the side; Android Wear 2.0 supports for the first time scrollwieltjes and other round entry options.

The 1.38 in. Sport has in addition to GPS also built-in 4G, which makes the watch without a paired smartphone is ready to operate independently. The Style is with 1,2 inch is slightly smaller and flatter, and has no built-in 4G.

The watches coming later this month are already out in the US, for a launch in the Netherlands are no plans yet.

By: NU.nl

Android-ransomware lets users via qr-code pay – Security.nl

Researchers have Android ransomware discovered devices for ransom locks and victims via a qr code, the requested amount pay late. The problem is that users of the qr code using the infected device can scan.

The malicious Android app is spread via unofficial app stores, misleading sms text messages and forumpostings, according to security company Symantec. Once installed look for the malicious app, or the Android device is rooted. If this is the case is ask the app to have root privileges, which supposedly would be needed to allow the user access to thousands of pornofilmpjes.

If the user gives permission to change the app to his rights and ensures that if system application is started. After that, the screen is locked. In the event the device is not rooted the app will the unit immediately lock. The ransomware will not continue in the system nesting. The victims pay makes the ransomware using a qr code on the locked screen is displayed.

“This might seem like a good idea for victims in this way, the ransom for their device to pay, in practice it is not really effective. It is not possible to get the qr code from the infected device to scan, so there is a second device,” says Dinesh Venkatesan of Symantec. Android users get the advice to only apps from trusted locations to download, set the permissions to check which apps questions and updates for their device to install.

Google revamps format Maps app for Android | NOW – The last … – NU.nl

Google changes the format of its maps app for Android. Three new tabs have additional information to make it accessible.

The tabs appear below the map that will be displayed when Google Maps is opened.

In the left tab are nearby locations, such as restaurants, cafés and petrol stations. Depending on the time different categories to be highlighted.

The middle tab shows shortcuts to directions for motorists. Who his home and place of work has completed, can with one click create navigate. There are also warnings about files are displayed.

In the right tab, there is information about public transport. Also here can a route be planned, and also to see which public TRANSPORT stops are closest to hand.

The change is currently being rolled out on Android. It is unclear whether Google, the new format also to iOS devices.

By: NU.nl