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Lilbits (6-18-2014): OnePlus One teardown, Amazon Fire Phone SDK

The OnePlus One is one of the first phones to ship with Cyanogen’s custom version of Android. It’s also a pretty powerful phone given its $299 starting price. Now that the phone is starting to ship in limited quantities, the folks at iFixit decided to take it apart and see what makes it tick. In […]

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Samsung introduces Tizen SDK for smart TV apps

Samsung seems to be intent on using the Linux-based Tizen operating system to power as many of its upcoming devices as possible. While Tizen has yet to take off as a smartphone or tablet operating system, Samsung already offers cameras, smartwatches, and fitness trackers powered by Tizen. Now Samsung has unveiled a Tizen software developer kit […]

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BlackBerry promises a phone with a 1440 x 1440 pixel screen

BlackBerry is working on a new smartphone with a high-resolution square display. In a blog post announcing the launch of the software developer kit for BlackBerry OS 10.3, BlackBerry’s Tim Neil points out that there’s support for a new screen resolution: 1440 x 1440 pixels. The documentation for OS 10.3 refers to the upcoming smartphone […]

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Android for wearables: Google plans to deliver an SDK in March

Google is preparing to make it easier to build smartwatches and other devices that run Android software. Google’s Android chief Sundar Pichai says the company will release a software developer kit (SDK) for wearable devices in about two weeks. Update: It’s real, and it’s called Android Wear. Right now Android officially supports phones and tablets, […]

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PayPal launches Android SDK, offers devs another option for in-app payments

Google offers tools that let Android developers collect payment for in-app purchases using Google Checkout. But now developers that want to let users make payments using a credit card or PayPal can offer that option, thanks to a new Android SDK from PayPal. PayPal says the SDK supports Android 2.2 or later, which should cover […]

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Google Android emulator adds GPU support, gets faster

Google has been offering an Android emulator as part of its Google Android software development kit for years. It lets developers test Android apps using a desktop computer without copying the apps-in-progress to a phone or tablet first. But up until recently the emulator was painfully slow. Last week Google released a new version with […]

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Who needs an official SDK? Native QNX apps can already run on the BlackBerry PlayBook

Research in Motion is expected to launch a software developer kit (SDK) allowing developers to write native apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook this summer. This will let developers code apps specifically for the QNX operating system that runs on the tablet. But one independent developer has already figured out how to write QNX apps and […]

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Barnes & Noble releases SDK for the NOOKcolor

Sure, if you really want to run third party Android apps on your Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor eBook reader (and tablet), you can just go ahead and root the device. But if you’re the less adventurous sort, it looks like new apps could be on the horizon anyway. Barnes & Noble has launched a software developer kit […]