Google's Android Q beta for Pixel has lots of app features | Facebook app offers shortcut to gaming content | Firework app brings a twist to social video
Users of Pixel smartphones can now download the initial beta of Google's Android Q mobile operating system, which offers better privacy controls, features for foldable phones, easier content sharing between apps, the new Dynamic Depth photo format and more. Google is expected to unveil more details about its new OS at the Google I/O developers' conference in May.
A new tab in the Facebook app will show users a feed of content related to video games such as videos from streamers and group updates. Millions of users will receive access to the initial launch, and the company plans to expand rapidly to a larger base.
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Users of the new Firework app can create vertical and horizontal social videos in one take. The "reveal videos" allow viewers to switch the orientation of their phones to get more complete views.
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The KaiOS feature phone operating system is an up-and-comer globally, partly because it offers many of the essential capabilities of smartphones and is compatible with 4G service. Google is providing a funding boost as well as a voice assistant and preferred status as a KaiOS search engine.
Common sense dictates that a user can only click on an ad if they have actually been served it and have seen it. Adjust is putting this theory to the test by releasing a new standard, requiring ad partners to share this data with us so we can answer a very simple question: was there a matching impression for a click?
The upcoming Microsoft Game Stack will use Azure cloud capabilities to provide multiplayer hosting and skill level matching options to game developers. Game Stack will run games made for Google and Apple devices as well as a wide variety of others in addition to Microsoft's Xbox.
IAB Tech Lab's new app-ads.txt is designed specifically for apps purchased in over-the-top and mobile stores. The standard enables links between apps' websites and their store listings, providing transparency to ensure sellers are authorized.
Apple has scheduled this year's Worldwide Developers Conference for June 3 to 7 in San Jose, Calif. Much of the talk leading up to the event focuses on iOS 13 and the restructuring of its user interface, as well as Apple's plans to integrate iPad and possibly iPhone apps with its Mac computers.
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