Tag Archives: capabilities

Flutter, Google’s open-source framework for building multi-platform apps for mobile, web and desktop, is hosting its Flutter Forward event in Nairobi, Kenya today. As the name implies, the team is using the event to showcase up-and-coming features of the framework — most of which are still very early in their development cycle. The main highlights here are massively improved graphics performance, the ability to more easily embed Flutter code into existing web and mobile apps, and support… Source link

Google today announced it’s making several changes to the Google Play Store that will impact Android apps’ discoverability, how developers can market their apps to consumers and various trust and safety concerns. Most importantly, Google is now advising developers that the Play Store will begin to prioritize apps that deliver on both technical and in-app quality by promoting them in more places across the Play Store where they can be discovered by consumers. The changes hint at… Source link

This time of year is always busy with events, and every year Google Cloud Next, Google’s annual Cloud event, has many exciting announcements. Usually, there are so many announcements that I could write a book on each. A show highlight for me was the Six Five “On The Road” podcast with my co-host Daniel Newman joined by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and one of the co-inventors of the internet. This conversation revolves around the journey from the creation of the internet to… Source link

Google has updated its official Web Stories plugin for WordPress with the ability to embed content on webpages. Since the launch of the Web Stories plugin it has offered robust creation tools, but users were on their own when it came to embedding the content they created. WordPress site owners can now create Web Stories and embed them using the same tool. The update also offers the ability to embed Web Stories from other sites. In addition to easier embedding, the plugin update makes it… Source link

Google on Tuesday said users of KaiOS – which powers devices like JioPhone and HMD Global’s Banana Phone (Nokia 8110 4G) – will now be able to use Google Lens on their phones to read and translate words in real-time. Google Lens is an image recognition technology that is designed to bring out relevant information related to objects it identifies using visual analysis. In a blogpost, Google said the company has been adding features like integrated voice typing on KaiOS, voice-based language… Source link