Android Q Beta 1 Brings New Privacy Features, Foldable Support, Vulkan Extensions

The next Android version, dubbed Android Q, is now available for developers in beta, bringing new privacy features, system-wide behaviour changes, and new APIs to support foldable devices, Vulkan extensions, and more.

OpenXR 0.90 Aims to Solve AR/VR Fragmentation

The Khronos Group has published the first OpenXR specification and API with version number 0.90. OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) platforms and devices that aims to simplify AR/VR software development on multiple platforms and devices.

ART Cloud Profiling to Improve Android App Performance

First introduced in Android Pie, ART optimizing profiles are a feature that leverages data sent to Play Cloud to optimize an app startup time on install or update. Data disclosed by Google show apps start 15% faster on average, with special cases reaching a 30% improvement.

HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together

Recently announced by HiveMQ, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka aims to integrate Kafka and MQTT to enable real-time streaming for IoT applications.

Yelp Bento Aims to Simplify Modularized UI Development on Android

Yelp has open-sourced Bento, a framework to build modularized user interface on Android by combining different, reusable components into a single screen.