Android Tech

Spyglass Spyglass is an advanced compass and GPS navigator app for iPhone, iPad, iOS and Android. Spyglass comes in handy as a car, bike, boat, aircraft, vehicle or walking compass and GPS navigation to drive, cycle, sail, fly or hike off the road, in the field or woods, in the sea and in the air. Spyglass is a powerful toolkit essential for every outdoorsman. Augmented Reality Navigator and a Compass for the off-road. Packed with many useful tools: a hi-tech viewfinder (HUD), milspec compass, gyrocompass, maps, tactical GPS, waypoint tracker, speedometer, altimeter, gyro horizon, sniper’s rangefinder, coordinate converter, sextant, inclinometer, angular calculator and zoom camera. Save, find, track and share your position, multiple waypoints, bearings, Sun, Moon and stars, all in real time. As a complete GPS kit app, Spyglass supports dozens of different coordinate systems (civilian, military, MGRS, UTM, OSGB) and is perfect for playing outdoor treasure hunt games like Geoca...

Ringing in 2017 with updates to our Google Voice apps Set of features to Google Voice with updates to this app on  Android ,  iOS  and  the web . The first thing you’ll notice about the updated Google Voice apps is a cleaner, more intuitive design that keeps everything organized. Your inbox now has separate tabs for text messages, calls and voicemails. Conversations stay in one continuous thread, so you can easily see all your messages from each of your contacts in one place. It has upgraded the messaging experience with support for group and photo MMS as well as in-notification replies. And it is starting to introduce voicemail transcription for Spanish and will improve accuracy over time. For more information about the updated Google Voice apps, visit this  Help Center . For reading full details, visit  https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-updates-our-google-voice-apps/

Application Sandboxing  Application sandboxing,  is an approach to software development and mobile application management ( MAM ) that limits the environments in which certain code can execute. The goal of sandboxing is to improve security by isolating an application to prevent outside malware , intruders, system resources or other applications from interacting with the protected app . The term sandboxing comes from the idea of a child's sandbox, in which the sand and toys are kept inside a small container or walled area. Developers that don't want an application to be touched by outside influences can wrap security policies around an app . Application sandboxing is controversial because its complexity can cause more security problems than the sandbox was originally designed to prevent.  For example, if a developer builds an application that needs to interact with a device's contacts list, sandboxing would cause that application to lose imp...

Firefox OS iOS and Android are great, but they each have their own rules and policies that certainly inhibit the creative efforts of developers. Mozilla has since decided to build a new mobile operating system from scratch, one that will focus on true openness, freedom and user choice. It’s Firefox OS . Firefox OS is built on Gonk, Gecko and Gaia software layers – for the rest of us, it means it is built on open source, and it carries web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3 .   Developers can create and debut web apps without the blockade of requirements set by app stores, and users could even customize the OS based on their needs. Currently the OS has made its debut on Android-compatible phones , and the impression so far, is great. You can use the OS to do essential tasks you do on iOS or Android: calling friends, browsing web, taking photos, playing games, they are all possible on Firefox OS, set to rock the smartphone market.