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Android's Design Principles And The Calculus Of The Human Pleasure Response

Android UX and interaction design leads Helena Roeber and Rachel Garb gave a talk at Google I/O this year about the Android Design Principles (ADP) they helped create and introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Android 4,0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

BlackBerry Bringing BBM to iOS, Android

ORLANDO, Fla. — BlackBerry has announced that it's bringing its BBM chat platform to multiple platforms and devices this summer, including iOS and Android.


This move has been rumored for, literally, years, yet the announcement still seemed to take the audience by surprise.

Five Years Of Android: The Devices That Defined Google's Mobile OS

Nearly five years ago, a smartphone came out that few thought much of. Little did people know that the device would be a harbinger for the next half-decade of mobile innovation, pushing boundaries of technology and launching a fundamental shift in how people interact with computers.

Google I/O: The Developers Guide Of What To Expect

Google will have lots of goodies this week for developers - and consumers - at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco. We might see some new hardware, a couple updates to Google"s major platforms (Maps, Android, Chrome, Google+ and Play) and most likely a surprise or two.

Android Is Fading Into The Background And That's A Good Thing

This week's Google I/O conference is promising to be an anticlimactic event when it comes to new products running Android, Google's mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets. And that may be a good thing.


The Year of Android was 2011.

AT&T's Galaxy Note getting Jelly Bean via Kies on May 3rd

After watching its international counterpart make the jump to Jelly Bean, Ma Bell's version of the original Galaxy Note is finally scheduled to receive its due.

Starting on Thursday, Samsung's Kies servers will begin offering Android 4,1.

Is Jelly Bean more popular than Ice Cream Sandwich?

Last month Google altered the method of collecting data for its Android distribution charts, now measuring the popularity of the operating system iterations by visits to the app store instead of check-ins to the company's servers as before.

Jelly Bean overtakes Ice Cream Sandwich in Android rankings

Android 4,1 and 4,2 combine for 28,4 percent of active devices running the mobile OS, claiming second place from Ice Cream Sandwich with sliding Gingerbread on the horizon.

Android metrics show Jelly Bean adoption overtaking Ice Cream Sandwich

Google's big shake-up of Android version metrics has already given us a better understanding of where the platform's active users truly stand. Now that we're a month into the new methodology, we have a good sense of where those users are going -- and they're moving to Jelly Bean in droves.

Google Glass' vision of the future runs on a 2011 smartphone chip

Google Glass may represent the future of wearables, but its components are a vestige of the past -- 2011, to be exact. That's according to developer Jay Lee who dug up some interesting Glass tidbits using Android Debug Bridge.