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5 Things to Love and Hate in the Android L Dev Preview
It's been a little more than a month since Google let the cat out of the bag and gave out the developer preview of Android L for developers to test and curious but daring onlookers to try. While the...
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Paranoid Android 4.5 Alpha 3: choose your Recents style
Another week, another Paranoid Android Alpha teaser. And like the previous two before it, 4.5 Alpha 3 focuses on changes to the redesigned Recent Apps view. Aside from visual polish and performance...
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MIUI v6 launched, goes flat and simple
Xiaomi has just released a major overhaul of its custom ROM, MIUI version 6. Calling it "visually stunning, stunningly simple", the Chinese manufacturer has opted to drop the aging skeumorphic design...
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Cabinet Beta, Sliding Explorer give a foretaste of Android L
Android has a lot of file managers, many of them offering more power to what is already a power tool. But they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and those file managers do not always meet the...
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Beautiful Design Summer Collection 2014 includes 12 apps
Google’s Beautiful Design collection has been a great curated find of the best designed apps among the thousands you can find on the Google Play Store. The Summer Collection 2014 includes 12 old (but...
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Today Calendar gets a taste of Material Design in beta
The Android L Material Design bug just keep on spreading, even outside Google's own app catalog. The latest to join that fray is Today Calendar, turning Google's own Calendar Android app into something...
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Source: a Material Design news reader from EvolveSMS dev
With a ton of news readers on Android, especially those that use the same news sources, differentiation can be a bit difficult. Considering that functionality is almost always the same, such apps...
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Google updates Material Design resources for Android 5 release
Google initially released its Material Design guidelines in July and designed it as a feedback mechanism from developers to refine the initial aesthetic and look of Android 5.0 when it was unveiled in...
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Samsung answers design questions for Note 4, Note Edge
When going a version up, there is always the tension between keeping elements of the old design and ditching them for something new. Samsung went through all of that for its new flagship phablets – the...
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Material Design checklist helps developers get ready
Android 5.0 Lollipop is coming and developers better be ready. Actually, many have already updated their apps, even in their current pre-Lollipop incarnations, to that new Material Design look. But to...
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Android Wear faces gets official API and Play Store corner
This is probably that day that many smartwatch users and designers have been waiting for. After asking developers and designers to hold off from flooding the market with watch faces, Google has finally...
View ArticleDesign your own games with this “pay what you want” course set [DEALS]
You may have gotten some programming chops from our previous Android app development courses, but that's only half the tools you'll need when making a game. The other half, game design, requires a...
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HTC to Ink up its One M9 in bespoke special edition
The HTC One M9 may already be getting good reviews and if you like a little art in your devices, you might give this one a go as well. The OEM is teaming up with a supermodel and a tattoo artist to be...
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Google intros new Literata typeface for Play Books
If you're a regular reader on Google Play Books, you'd be happy to know that there is a new font you could use. The new font called Literata is said to be ideal for longer reads on all devices so...
View ArticleGoogle signature font Roboto now an open source
Last week, Google introduced the new Literata typeface for Play Books. Companies like Google make sure that even the fonts used in their products and services are consistent as part of branding and...
View ArticleHTC One M9 Ink limited edition handset now available for pre-order
At the end of April, we told you about this new limited edition smartphone that HTC is coming up for their new flagship, the One M9, which is part of their bespoke collection. This time it was a...
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New Android Wear watch faces now available on Google Play
Google's Android Wear team has just announced a bunch of new Android Wear watchfaces. It took some time for the Android Wear developers to announce this new series since the last batch was released...
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Pixate joins Google’s design team, more app ideas to come to life
Three-year old startup Pixate has recently joined the design team of Google. This means designing prototypes and tools not only for Android but also iOS is now easier. This includes Form 1.3 so any...
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Skysphere is a DIY Android-controlled dream space
We’ve seen man caves, bachelor pads, and now, even “she sheds”. But for introverts who love a small but highly functional and comfortable place, this new “invention” by Kiwi plastic engineer and...
View ArticleAndroid Design for Developers to improve app design skills
If you’re a developer (or at least a good one), once you know how to make an app, the learning doesn’t stop from there. Especially now that everything is just so dynamic and ever-changing, you always...
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