This post is the third in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, focusing on the opportunities and challenges that mobile developers face trying to make money from Android Apps. In the waning hours of the Google I/O developers conference last week, an Android developer stood at a microphone to ask a very pertinent question: “If I am in the […]
Making Android Pay For Developers: Checking Out The New Tools In Google Play
This post is the second in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which we explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face trying to make money from Android apps. How do you get mobile developers to love you? Give them free tools and pad their wallets. One of the big themes for Google last week […]
How Google Is Wooing Developers To Make Apps For Android First
This post is the first in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which we’ll explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face in trying to make money from Android apps. In December 2011, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that mobile developers would be building apps for Android first instead of iOS by the middle of 2012. That […]
Designers respond to Flickr revamp
It’s a massive improvement, they say, except when they don’t Yahoo has announced a “better, brighter Flickr”, which offers what CEO Marissa Mayer company calls a “beautiful, completely re-imagined experience that puts photos front and centre”. Mayer highlighted the new photostream becoming a “vivid and endlessly scrolling gallery” and a full-screen slideshow. Users also get […]
First Opera WebKit browser released
Android browser the first to ditch Presto Opera has released its first browser that uses the WebKit browser engine. In a press release,the company added that it had “rethought, redesigned and rebuilt the browser experience into a thing of beauty”. An Opera News article elaborated further, discussing new features such as improved tabs and Speed […]
Yahoo buys Tumblr, promises to not ‘screw it up’
The deal, which had been rumored since last Thursday, will help Yahoo to tap into the younger, active online user base at Tumblr. But the deal raises concerns among some Tumblr fans that the site could end up being cluttered by the ads that brings in billions of dollars a year to Yahoo. Tumblr CEO and founder […]
Agency urges designers to fight thieves
IP theft can hit reputations and search engine rankings Devon-based agency Logo Design & Marketing has urged those within the industry to be more vigilant about their work being plagiarised. The company has long enjoyed a high Google ranking, but in a press release said this had resulted in others cloning its site, with unforeseen […]
CSSmatic toolkit brings new design tools
Animations and transitions to soon join gradients, noise, shadows and bordersThe people behind recent creation CSSmatic have their sights set on creating the “ultimate CSS toolkit” for web designers.The site currently comprises four tools, which enable you to create gradients, border-radiuses, noise textures and box shadows. Each of the tools provides a real-time preview, and […]
Firefox brings in font inspector, WebRTC
New desktop beta also includes web notifications API Mozilla has announced new betas for Firefox desktop that incorporate a number of cutting-edge features and technologies. First and foremost, WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) is now enabled by default. Mozilla said this will “enable developers to easily integrate real-time communications, including voice and video calls and file […]
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