Back in 2015, Tim Cook threw his weight behind a water-efficient shower head called Nebia, which sprays in a way that uses less water, but still keeps people warm. It doesn’t have an Apple logo on it, but looks like something the company would design – if it made bathroom […]
Jetpack Compose APIs for building adaptive layouts using Material guidance now stable
Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer The 1.0 stable version of the Compose adaptive APIs with Material guidance is out, ready to be used in production. The library helps you build adaptive layouts that provide an optimized user experience on any window size. The team at SAP Mobile […]
A 500 W Custom PCIe Card using 3000 mm2 Silicon
Pushing the physical limits of hardware is always a fun story, but I was positively blown away when I saw this poster at Supercomputing. Preferred Networks, seemingly a spin-out from Tokyo University, is shoving several large chiplets into a single PCIe card for peak performance, peak power, and it looks […]
MediaTek Delivers Dimensity 800 5G SoC To Battle Snapdragon 765 In Mid-Range Phone Market
Qualcomm isn’t the company looking to take over the mid-range to premium segment of the smartphone market with a new 5G mobile platform. MediaTek is also stepping into the ring with the Dimensity 800 Series, which is a lower-cost version of the Dimensity 1000 Series that was announced late last year. When […]
Google Play services discontinuing updates for API levels 14 and 15
Posted by Sam Spencer, Technical Program Manager, Google Play The Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) platform is seven years old and the active device count has been below 1% for some time. Consequently, we are deprecating support for ICS in future releases of Google Play services. For devices running ICS, […]
How to effectively A/B test power consumption for your Android app’s features
Posted by Mayank Jain – Product Manager, and Yasser Dbeis – Software Engineer; Android Studio Android developers have been telling us they’re looking for tools to help optimize power consumption for different devices on Android. The new Power Profiler in Android Studio helps Android developers by showing power consumption happening […]










