ART Runtime is replacing the aging dalvik runtime for good: performance and extended battery. What is ART Runtime Dalvik Runtime is being replaced with next generation ART (android runtime) in Android 5.x or later. Google … Read more
Floating and multitasking apps are trending fashion on Android platform. Floating apps let you use the app without leaving another app, making multitasking a snap. When your phone rings, a circle popout pophead arrives … Read more
There are battery analyzers that help you catch battery hog app, call trackers that track calling behavior and generate reports. What you might not have seen so far is app usage behavior/patterns. You might want … Read more
Samsung was the first to make it possible to run two applications in SplitScreen. They call it MultiWindow. The SplitView sure comes handy for the large screen smartphone/Tablet user who is trying to multitask on … Read more
Sony’s flagship device Xperia Z1 improves on original Z and makes it a lot better than before. Sony has done some marvellous job while making this waterproof phone sturdy and attractive on paper. But is … Read more
What is Mediaserver? Mediaserver or Media scanner on Android is designed to scan and index every media file: Images, Videos, Music and make the list available to all Android apps, so that they don’t have … Read more
iOS 7: You either hate it or love the notion of Flat UI and vibrant colors. iOS 7 UI aesthetics have been less than overwhelming but they did get mass adoption. You can now mock … Read more
Chromecast dongle lets you stream music, video, chrome tabs from Android, PC to an HDTV with HDMI input. But it isn’t a system wide streaming, it rather works only with apps that choose to support … Read more
Back in the days when Internet was dialup and was slow, several proprietary technologies were developed. One such technologies was to combine two dial-up modems to boost connection speed by sending packets across both networks … Read more
Samsung announces new Galaxy Note 3, a flagship powerful descendent for the Phablet Note family. Note 3 learns from Galaxy S4’s design and improves on it. Note 3 is a lot lighter and thinner than … Read more
When it comes to our mobile phones, most of the news tend to be about advancements. A major new mobile phone comes out every few months, new software updates seem constant, and of course app … Read more
Chromecast is the new $35 streaming device from Google that turns your HDTV into a stream receiver from various devices including Android, iOS and PCs. Ever since it was released, developers like Koush had been … Read more
Nexus line of devices sports buttonless interface, giving user more power. Slowly, more and more android OEMs are adopting Soft buttons (Navigation bar), realizing importance of buttonless interface. But Navigation bar is lacking on features. … Read more
Chromecast streams Music, videos, and Chrome Tabs from Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android. But there is a catch. All of the content streams from the cloud directly to the Chromecast device. Your seconds screen … Read more
Google has retired the amazing Latitude app that let you share your accurate location with friends and Family. They have removed Latitude from Google Maps v7 for Android, and iOS. So where has Location sharing … Read more