Google announced that the Kotlin programming language will now be a first class citizen alongside of Java for Android development. Since Apple had announced Swift as the replacement for Objective-C as the iOS app development programming language, there’s been a lot of...
Rumor has it that Google may be considering making Apple’s Swift a first class language for Android development. Predictably, the internet has been pretty excited about this possibility. My lack of enthusiasm for Swift has been fairly well document, so I’m going to...
Ars Technica recently posted an article by Larry Seltzer that discusses the possibility of native mobile apps being marginalized by web-based solutions thanks to the increasing advancement of web standards on mobile. Normally, I’d ignore something like this — in most...
Over the last few weeks, I've had the opportunity to try out the Dell Venue 7 and use it as a test device but also a day to day media tablet. The Good: The tablet ships with a fairly recent version of Android: 4.2.2. Additionally, the UX is pretty much stock Android...
I’ve been living with the Moto X Developer Edition for about a week now and have been using it as my daily driver for as long as I’ve had the device. The Good: The natural language processing in the extended Google Now functionality is impressive to say the least. In...
This weekend I got a tip that my local Best Buy was selling the new Nexus 7s early, so I jumped in my car and bought one of the 16GB ones. Strangely, they didn’t have a display out or even a sign for the tablet but after speaking to a salesman, he told me that he...
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