Has now the new launcher on your Android M … – Tudocelular.com

Google Now Launcher was introduced with the Nexus 5 to bring a very fast and versatile application launcher. To be compatible with any device with Android 4.1 or higher, users who are uncomfortable with the interface developed by the manufacturer of your device may replace it with an Android experience “almost pure”.

As the name implies, the tool is integrated with information cards Google Now and of course, you can receive voice instructions from the command “OK, Google”. You can also do text searches on the web quickly giving the touch in this search field at the top of the interface. How could it be otherwise, the launcher is also conveniently integrated with other Google products, such as Maps and Gmail .

Now with Android M , Google taught new tricks for your launcher. The first is that you can delete an application directly from the home screen. Before it was necessary to access the application drawer and then drag any that you no longer wanted to the trash icon at the top of the screen. The same can be done from the home screen, where the options are displayed ‘Remove’ or ‘Uninstall’ any app you arreste the screen.

Also new is the organization of apps in the apps drawer. Now, instead of going to scroll horizontally, with the Android M will be possible to have all categorized and grouped by letter, and allows a scroll vertically. This helps to quickly find what you seek -. Especially important for those with more than 200 applications installed on your device

If you do not want to wait for Android M or not to install the preview version of test, just take the news on your smartphone are installing the new launcher manually. To do this, download the APK and install it on your device. You must have the previous version of Google Now Launcher on the device if you do not have one, download via Play Store. However, this version is only compatible with Lollipop or latest versions.

Vault Project: The microSD card which makes the Android safer – Pplware

The safety of users of smartphones and other data devices has been an issue that is constantly discussed and it has been cause for concern.

The Google have spent years looking for a way to ensure this security, while ensuring the simplicity of the system.

According to a project that presented at I / O this step can be closer to be given. The Vault Project wants to give the necessary security to all and uses it for a simple microSD card.

This is another great project research laboratory and investigation of Google, which has already brought us some very interesting project.

The team that developed the project Vault managed to put in a microSD card something that can be compared to a computer and that will give an additional layer of security for any mobile device.

It has the advantage of being used natively by any device, not requiring manufacturers to adapt their equipment or incorporating new features

The Vault will run its own operating system. – Real Time Operating System (RTOS) – and independent of the systems where you placed with specifications very high security and ensuring extra protection for user data.

Equipped with encryption tools with high degrees of security Vault will ensure data security and the protection of all information that the user wants to save this protected area.

But as the Vault will occupy a slot that many want to use as memory expansion of its mobile devices, the Vault in equipped with a 4GB partition that can be integrated in the system where to run.

Apart from these features the Vault also has NFC and the ability to communicate with neighboring devices. It can be used on most operating systems such as Android, iOS or Windows.

If in the case of Android integration is native, the remaining need to have an application running in order to access the data and interact with systems.

The Vault will be directed to the Companies and security of employee data, but your code and all the information will be made public so that they can plan and create applications to make use of their abilities.

It’s still far from made public but Google has begun real tests with 500 of its employees, which allows us to understand that the Vault is a very real product that hit the market.

After Soli, but this is a project that shows that Google and its STAP laboratory have much to bring to our day-to-day, ensuring innovation and revolutionary ideas in various areas of technology.

Microsoft applications on iOS and Android, is this a good strategy? – PT Journal

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The arrival of Windows 10 is getting closer, and the hype around its arrival and all the promised functionality increases every day.

Windows 10, unlike earlier versions of Windows, not only with respect to Microsoft users. The new Microsoft operating system will embrace a very maios range of devices and platform, including competing platforms in particular iOS and Android

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Microsoft has focused all fixed in Windows 10, and all this effort is showing the first signs: an operating system for multiple platforms and compatible with competing platforms – when using Microsoft software – such as Office, onedrive, OneNote, Cortana, etc …

The brand led by Satya Nadella has been very focused on large ecosystem that will be Windows 10 and there are several new features: a new browser to forget the Internet Explorer, the same operating system for multiple platforms -. which will make life easier for application developers, and its range of products at competitive platforms, as already mentioned

But after all, the winning Microsoft to develop their applications for competing platforms? What do you think of that users of Windows Phone?

The answer is not easy and only with time will be answered, in that the users are going to give a final note on this investment, but we can draw conclusions.

Users of Windows Phone do not see with good eyes the development of these PPAs for iOS and Android. After Office Mobile and other features, it has now announced the Cortana – the personal assistant of Microsoft

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Users of Windows Phone show up quite angry with this and give some signs of ‘wear’ towards Redmond mark. For some of these users develop applications for competing platforms when their own are not properly ‘tuned’, is seen as a kind ‘users guinea pigs’, which can lead to the brand to win new users.

In thing some of these users are right. After all, a person who has an iPhone or an Android midrange / high and it has all these Microsoft services and taking into account the lack of applications that many complain on the mobile platform from Microsoft, think about switching to the Windows Phone? Apparently not! It is at least that, the feedback I, as a blogger, I get the majority of users.

However, and as is known to the majority of users, Microsoft lives of revenues in software licenses. It is in this perspective that the brand wants to bet strong on Windows 10, and makes it compatible with all the adjacent productivity suite, be it a computer / Windows smartphone or an iPhone or Android.

An Android and a bucket unite communities in Uganda – News Minute to

The Interactive Technologies Institute of Madeira (MITI) is developing a project for UNICEF, which is a technical and social platform that unites communities in Uganda, using a telephone, a bucket and solar panels.

“It’s basically a community radio system, which uses Android, technology made in a bucket, with solar panels, installed an antenna 15 meters and for adding the areas of communities remote in touch, “said Nuno Nunes, president of MITI.

The project aims to give Ugandan communities a mix of communications, uniting them in a single platform called ‘rootIO’.

The author of the project is Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, responsible for the Chair of the European Research Area, MITI, which aims to promote, research and innovation in the area of ​​Design and Human Computer Interaction.

The project ‘ rootIO ‘was first created in the United States but, at the time of appointment to the chair, Csikszentmihalyi also brought the project to Madeira and recently has been installed the first station in Patongo, northern Uganda.

The project intends to operate as interactive network, “an extremely simple and inexpensive way, as he may maintain the roots and the language of the various communities involved.”

In rural areas of Uganda, traditional radio will serve to educate about AIDS or to make “regional product markets,” among other possibilities that are no longer limited by the lack of communication.

Although “the wonders of technology of mobile phones and the Internet , radio is still a form of content delivery used in many cases to receive information, “said Nuno Nunes.

In these more remote and rural communities, existing infrastructure is still limited and the design allows use” phone as the antenna and, at the same time as a radio station “.

A telephone call originated at one of these stations is relayed to other, as” a radio signal it were “.

According to Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, the project, with an estimated duration of two years, is estimated at about $ 250,000 (about 228,000 euros), includes the installation of four communication stations in Uganda, which will serve 150 thousand people.

The Android M arrived – Shifter

Last year, around this time, the Google developers involved in the development of its new operating system when it released the Android L – a version beta designed to app makers so that they give feedback and do their testing before the final release in the autumn. The experience seems to have gone well and therefore back to again and again:. Give the welcome to the Android M

If this kind of process takes some suspense surrounding the launch of a new version of Android, the truth is that when this happens, everything is already better prepared for your arrival. And who benefits is always the end user. The first images of the new version of the system were presented this Thursday in San Francisco during the Google I / O

It can be said that the Android M is not quite a revolution, but an evolution. If Android L (after Lollipop) brought a complete redesign in light of the language Material Design in the Android M (only know the name in autumn), visual changes are not many, but thousands of bugs have been fixed and there are new features.

Permissions simplified

One of them has to do with permissions. So far, the programmer only had to worry about asking for permission at the time of the app installation, but this type of control will be much more user-customizable. Permissions can now be denied or accepted one by one in the definitions as well as the very time they are needed.

In practice, the permissions on Android will become much in the style of iOS. If, for example, instalares WhatsApp and you need to send a voice message, you’ll have to allow the app access to your phone microphone. Once done, you will not have to give permission whenever you send a voice message. WhatsApp in the settings, you can manually remove and, one by one, the permissions to this app.

The Chrome within apps

On your Android phone you have the Chrome for browsing the web, but you can also do it within other apps. In fact, there are numerous apps (Facebook and Pinterest are just two examples) that have built-in mini-browsers, allowing you to view external links without opening Chrome. This is definitely an advantage. Lost much less time than if we had to jump between apps just to see what it says a link

However, when we use browsers within apps, passwords and other data that are stored on Chrome are not accessible – which is boring. But Google will solve this in the Android M with something called Chrome Custom Tabs.

This means that when you click a link to any website in a given app, the link will open in a custom tab that appears to belong to the app you’re using, but that is Chrome. Thus, you need not enter passwords or to introduce other data now you did at least once in Chrome.

A longer lasting battery

The battery also not escaped the concerns and the Twelve functionality came to make a new power management:. when it detects that the smartphone is idle for a long time, will automatically disable some functions that are not to be necessary

Google says that the Twelve can allow savings of 50% as proved by a test, which released at the conference, made with two Nexus. 9 – one with Android Lollipop, the other with Android M

Support for USB Type C was also announced.

Fingerprint Readers

The Android M will include support for fingerprint readers. Although some manufacturers like Samsung already include this technology in their equipment, it is not natively supported by Android:. Must be created by Samsung programmers on top of the Google operating system

However, with M Android, Google has developed support for digital printing, enabling use of the same for payments with Android Pay for purchases authentication via Google Play and unlock the phone.

Now on Tap

Finally, Now on Tap, perhaps one of the most awesome features. Whether the exchange of messages, e-mails or even Facebook, you can access information about what you are talking with your friends. If they tell you something like “Let’s see Tomorrowland this night?” The phone has knowledge of what you’re talking about and can provide you with information about the movie (trailer, actors, …) with just one touch.

It’s like if you had a search engine within each app.

Dates

The Android M is available starting today for developers. While waiting for public release in the autumn, we challenge you to try to guess what will be after all the meaning to the “M” …

Android M, the new operating system from Google – Observer

Definitely, Google engineers like candy. The first Android operating system was called Donut (1.6), then followed by the Eclair (2.0), Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3), Honeycomb (3.0), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), Jelly Bean (4.1) , KitKat (4.4) and Lollipop (5.0). So it was expected that the new dessert to follow the tradition, which was confirmed on Thursday with the presentation of the new operating system (OS): it is called simply M – of M & M’S ?

The presentation took place in the first of two days of development conference I / O 2015 in San Francisco, California (USA). It is at this stage that projects are displayed and Google news in a technologically oriented strand for professionals and teams who develop software , but that turns out to garner attention from the press and the public in general, the more not least because it is there that are revealed the news that will be part of the mobile devices that run the Android OS, ie 78.9% of the global market.

The Android M will be available (for general public) in the third quarter of this year and will be a vitamin enriched version of the current Lollipop. More energy efficient, adds new features that rival competitor iOS (Apple). We highlight below some of the novelties of the new operating system from Google.

1. Application permissions system

Currently, when installing an application through the Google store, the user is warned of access that this application will be able to use (such as contacts, calendar, microphone and location) ie is granted a spectrum of hits on which there is no control, is an “all or nothing”, you agree to install the application with the access that it requires, or not at all. With the M, it becomes possible to accurately determine the permissions granted to each application and avoid “abuses”.

2. Energy optimization

The Android M will have a feature called Twelve (“snoozing”). Able to detect the inactivity smartphone , the M enter into “deep sleep” for longer periods, allowing double the battery life. Still, you can activate a list of messages and priority contacts and maintain the activated alarms.

3. Navigation offline

The Google Maps application will allow navigation offline , ideal for saving mobile data, especially the use roaming . To avoid overspending, research will still be optimized to load less data, including images. In addition, the browser Chrome now allow save pages in full, eliminating the use of mobile data.

4. Google Now more “smart”

The Android M card system will deliver content with more context. For example, when we are listening to a particular song he will tell us who is singing, if we look a film you can see immediately the trailer , or menu of a certain restaurant to get a dinner invitation in a message email . This system was called “Now on Tap” and will be for the entire device, integrating multiple applications. To be activated, just keep pressure on the main button smartphone . The “Now on Tap” will be able to recognize the application that is open ( email , browser , messages) and present links and suggestions according to what is read , see or hear.

5. Google Photos free storage with

Google has offered free storage integrated photo on Google Drive, but from now offers unlimited space for photos and videos, automatically reducing the size but “keeping quality”. If you prefer to keep the file with the original quality (considering the modern cameras that produce large files), this will continue to be conditioned to the available space on the drive. You can now download the new application Photos in Android and iOS.

But there’s more. Google Photos allows the organization and contextual search of images, as we have witnessed a few weeks ago at an event in Madrid. The system uses the geolocation and is able to recognize objects. Want to find photos that appear in a given place and date with a particular object (or even your dog)? Just ask, by mouth.

6. Payments

After the failure of Google Wallet payment system, the company introduced the Android Pay , which will work through NFC technology (touch and pay) and / or authentication fingerprint. Details of this system were still not completely understood, but Google promises that will be available in 700,000 establishments (in the US), through activation by mobile operators.

The new Android M will also include native support for new chips USB Type C, a new USB format without “double-sided”, ie that fits without the need to be attentive to the Record position. In addition, and for more power capacity, enables not only load the Android device but make him a charger from one another. The USB-C is already used, for example, the new MacBook from Apple, and the market trend points to the widespread format in the near future.

In the presentation of the first day of I / O conference were also highlighted other projects and features. New applications for the Android Wear (the OS of smartwatches ) Project Brillo that connects mobile devices to the “internet of things” (lamps , locks, thermostats, etc.) and support for virtual reality systems: a new format Cardboard , a “glasses” where it is possible to couple the smartphone . It was also announced one partnership with GoPro , the construction of a ring (or strap) where you can install 16 cameras. The software Google will build a stereoscopic image from multiple shots.

You can find more detailed information on the official website of the event.

Google shows details about Android M and Cardboard VR – Exame Informática

The new mobile operating system Android M will have more control over privacy settings, with apps to be required to seek permission to access data such as location, contacts, calendar, camera, microphone or other sensors in the first time trying to do, rather than just ask at the facility. The Twelve functionality will allow battery savings, since suspending an app if you notice that this is not being used, except for Notifications and Alarms. On Google’s tests, the Nexus 9 had twice as autonomy with this feature enabled.

The other novelty presented was the Picasa Web Albums service, which automatically organizes photos and videos the user to save on company servers. The app can suggest soundtracks and create links to other streams of images. Finally, this service promises unlimited storage of photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p at no cost, reports the BBC .

The virtual reality equipment low cost of Google, Cardboard, will have a new version. The virtual reality helmet made with card and is powered by the user’s smartphone will be easier to assemble and will support screens up to six inches in diagonal.

Also during the event, Google said it would improve voice recognition software, that Google Maps would be able to navigate turn-by-turn in offline, with the possibility to download the route before.

Finally, Sundar Pichai said the Brillo, the operating system for the Internet of Things, based on Android. This system will help manufacturers connect devices such as door knobs, thermostats and refrigerators.

Microsoft makes official the arrival of Cortana to iOS and Android – Portal Technology

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Voice assistants are” fashionable “, although I doubt its usefulness, and Cortana, created by Microsoft, will reach the competition, iOS and Android.

Microsoft has a strong bet in its offerings and has no problem in expanding them for their “competitors”, and the Cortana voice assistant the latest “export”. The applications allow the Cortana is used outside the Windows environment.

As you would expect, to the limitations of each operating system, Cortana will not have the same features as Windows Phone, however will dictate memories / notes, get results of soccer games, among others. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of information about Microsoft’s assistant in competing mobile operating systems, but we have begun to realize how it will work.

Another novelty is the Phone Companion application, which will sync your Android device, iOS or Windows with your computer. Stay with a video, in English, to better understand how this application works:

Source: Microsoft

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Google introduced Android M – Pplware

The arrival of Android M was an expected new to the I / O today. Google did not fail to fulfill and so today launched the latest version of Android.

There are several new features that this version will bring, but mainly focus on improvement than is currently the Android.

The main concern of Google for Android M is to ensure that the news that brought the previous version will be continued and also ensure that the system has an even better performance.

But for the addition Google has also brought some new features, ranging further open the Android users and new features.

The already spoken control the permissions of the applications arrived and will give the user even more control than these applications have access.

The Google Pay is back and brings some new features, with the possibility of payments made directly via NFC, but authenticated by reading fingerprints collected directly on the device.

A new technology associated with energy consumption was established. The Dozer will get notice the use of the equipment, the physical level and reduce consumption at times when they are not being used.

The USB-C connector will also reach devices and the Android M will make use of it for a range of functions, such as charging external devices

There are many more news that Google will present the next months and that will make Android an even better platform.

The big news is that the Android M will be available today on Google’s repositories for Nexus devices (5, 6 and 9).

MasterCard cards allow payments via Android Pay – Pplware

One of the novelties of today’s Google I / O event was the announcement of Android Pay, a service that will allow MasterCard cardholders – credit cards, debit, prepaid and people with small business cards – use their Android phones for everyday purchases in stores, as well as Android applications.

This novelty is available to MasterCard cardholders, more automatic payment options, via your mobile device.

Currently, MasterCard contactless is accepted by more than three million traders in 68 countries around the world.

The service Digital MasterCard Enablement Service allows to provide Android users Pay experience Simple payment and secure , giving consumers use their payment cards when, where and how they want.

From this summer, owners of Android devices can use their MasterCard cards – credit, debit, prepaid or small business cards – directly through Pay Android with the same security, benefits and guarantees that any MasterCard transaction. And because Android Pay never sharing the card number to merchants, consumers also benefit from additional security.

Mobile payments have arrived and are now an essential part of value proposition of the new devices. With MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MOUs) and the Android Pay, we can now use secure code to allow make payments easily from a connected consumer device. Today’s news expands consumer choice and boost payments via devices. “

Ed McLaughlin, Chief Emerging Payments Officer, MasterCard

Mobile payments are a priority for Google , so we work with payment processing network operators like MasterCard, to help provide a seamless experience to a wide range of phones and shops. The Android Pay will give people simplicity, security and choice in payment for purchases through Android phones.

Bhat Pali, Google Product Management Director

Whether already testing the Android M a Google Nexus? Already you can do! – Pplware

The end of the day yesterday was devoted to Google and everything new giant of the research presented at its annual conference.

One of the novelties that more interest generated up even before the officially unveiled was the new version of Android.

During his presentation Google had promised the release of its first version tests. And again not defrauded its users and is finally available in Google’s repositories the first version of Android M tests.

The news of Android M are not many, but that Google presented show a system that wants above all to improve the stability and the relationship of users with their applications.

In addition to the Google Pay novelty and read fingerprints to authorize payments and access to the devices there are improvements in energy consumption, with the Dozer.

Google released a few hours ago the first versions of tests of the new Android M for its Nexus devices. This is still a very early version of its new operating system, but it can be already installed and used by anyone.

For now Google has limited the availability of this Developer Preview only the Nexus 5, 6, 9 (Wifi) and Player. Note that only these devices should receive the Android M, something that Google did not disclose to your event.

The new images are available for download on Google’s servers and users only need to download and follow the already known instructions to install this new version.

According to Google information who install this version will receive automatically OTA and the new versions Developer Preview that however they arise until the final release.

The Google said it will be three versions Developer Preview, with the first having been launched today. The remaining will emerge later in the month of June and the end of July. The final version will appear sometime during the third quarter without a time window need.

Note that the final version will not be offered over the air and must be installed manually, just like this version will be installed.

If you were curious about what the new Android M brings and how to behave in the Nexus, we will in the coming days to present in detail the installation process of the new operating systems on a Google Nexus .