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Google Announces Plan to Bring Vulkan 3D Rendering API to Android

Tim August 10, 2015 6

Today at SIGGRAPH 2015, Google announced plans to bring the Vulkan 3D rendering API to Android. Ultimately, this move will give app developers more explicit control over rendering a scene. Vulkan provides applications direct control over GPU acceleration for...

Report: Google to Launch Android Pay API at Google I/O in May

Tim February 25, 2015 38

According to sources of Ars Technica, Google will unveil and launch a new service called Android Pay at this year's I/O conference in May. Android Pay, a separate entity from Google Wallet, will allow third party app developers to implement a mobile payments...

Google Releases First Android Auto APIs to Developers

Tim November 18, 2014 44

Previewed back at Google I/O, Mountain View has now released its first set of APIs to developers for Android Auto. The APIs consist of two main focuses, those being audible notifications through a car's speaker system, and the access of music files through a...

Google Play Services 6.5 for Developers, Brings Helpful Maps, Wallet, and Fit APIs for Incorporation

Tim November 17, 2014 5

Google's Android development team is now rolling out Google Play Services 6.5 to developers, bringing a ton of new APIs to incorporate into existing applications. For starters, developers are getting more flexibility from Google Maps, with the API now offering...