According to Bloomberg, an anonymous source has revealed Instagram brought in more than $20 billion worth of ad revenue in 2019 alone. Generating more profit than YouTube, the sums from Instagram made up more than a quarter of Facebook’s ad income for the year. For the very first time, YouTube’s […]
Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Google Developer Student Clubs, a program of university based community groups for students interested in Google developer technologies, recently started hosting study groups called Android Study Jams. The goal? Learn Android app development through hands-on codelabs in an online […]
Does it feel like Android Studio packages and builds your apps, with very little input from you? Behind the scenes, Android Studio uses the Gradle automated build toolkit, and although it’s possible to run Gradle with very little (if any) manual configuration, Gradle has much more to offer than what’s […]
In November Microsoft announced that it would be bringing the Project XCloud Android preview to more countries, including Canada, India, Japan, and Western Europe. It seems as though they might be ahead of schedule. This morning, I noticed that the Xbox Game Streaming (Preview) app for Android now allows me […]
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have created a system that can use video from smartphones to locate a shooter. The system, known as Video Event Reconstruction and Analysis (VERA), requires as few as three videos to accurately locate a shooter, as demonstrated using three such recordings from the 2017 Las […]
