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Android Team Imposing New Rules About Account, Data Deletion on App Developers

Tim April 5, 2023 1

The Android team is introducing new rules for developers of apps that allow for account creation and/or the storing of a user's data, such as files, photos, or videos. Moving forward, developers of these apps will be required to provide an option for users to...

Google Opens Up Daydream App Development to All

Tim January 25, 2017 4

Since Daydream's official launch for developers back in September, 2016, Google has limited access to the platform to seemingly those it trusted to make good content. Today, those limitations have apparently been lifted, with access for publishing Daydream...

It Took Motorola Two Years to Develop Moto Mods, Reminds Developers About MDK

Tim August 11, 2016 68

For third-party hardware developers, the Moto Mods platform creates a unique opportunity to bring a new experience to a built-in audience of Moto Z device owners. With that being said, Motorola is reminding all third-party developers (software and hardware) ...

Google Play Developer Console App Updated With Review Notifications, Staged Rollout Controls

Tim August 10, 2016 2

The official Google Play Developer Console application has been updated this week, bringing new features for app developers to take advantage of. Inside this update, users can begin to receive updates for new reviews posted onto their apps, as well as search...

Android Studio 2.0 Previewed, Includes “Instant Run” and GPU Profiler

Tim November 23, 2015 4

The Android Developers team at Google is beginning to preview the launch of Android Studio 2.0, detailing what features app developers can look forward to upon release. All features detailed are available via the canary release channel, but given this is...

Google Play Services 8.3 Makes the Google Sign-In Process Simpler

Kellen November 6, 2015 22

Yesterday afternoon, Google announced Google Play Services 8.3 and what we can expect to see from it. Since most of it is developer talk around integrating new APIs, I'll spare you the dirty version and instead point out the new stuff users like you and I will...

Deal: Get Lifetime Access to 500+ Developer Courses for $49

Kellen September 25, 2015

Over on the DL Deals store, developers of any level can further their education by picking up the eduCBA Tech Training Bundle, which includes lifetime access to eduCBA's growing library of tech and developer courses. There are over 500 courses currently, but...

Deal: Pay What You Want for This $1,700 Mobile Developer Bundle

Kellen September 17, 2015

You all know the Humble Bundle, right? It's a collection of games that comes out every month or so with a pay-what-you-want scheme that allows you to get a bunch of popular titles for a few bucks, while donating to charity or developers at the same time. It's...