Google Has Updated Their Policy to Promote Standalone Android Wear Apps InFocus...

Google Has Updated Their Policy to Promote Standalone Android Wear Apps InFocus... xda-developers Sep 6, 2017 12:05 AM • by Adam Conway Google Has Updated Their Policy to Promote Standalone Android Wear Apps With Android Wear 2.0, applications can run standalone on the device and can be installed through the Google Play Store. Past initial setup, a phone is technically no longer needed to use the smartwatch. From Android Wear 1.0 to 1.5, applications were distributed from the phone to the watch, as the watch could not install apps independently. As such, Android Wear applications had to be downloaded on the phone, which contained the Wear APK sent over Bluetooth to the watch. However, things are now changing. Google is updating their policies, set to go live on the 18th of January 2018, to deny the "Enhanced for Android Wear" badge to any application that packs the Wear APK inside of the phone application, instead of making use of the multi-APK feature of the Google Play developer console. They also will no longer be eligible to be shown in any top charts. Google also announced that this feature will work with Android Wear 1.0+, so developers have no excuse not to implement this change. The main reason for this development would seem to be iOS users. The curated list of applications for Android smartwatches chosen by Google staff must only contain apps that will work on an Android Wear smartwatch regardless if it is connected to an iOS device or an Android device. Google also recommend apps which synchronize data to the device (such as fitness apps) have device synchronization as an optional extra, rather than a requirement. This may be Google hinting at further policy changes. That, or they just want the Android Wear platform to be an entirely independent platform from Android alone, able to stand by itself and bring a full smart suite directly to your wrist without relying on the battery life or connectivity of any of your other devices to function correctly. Source: Android Developers Blog Android Advices Sep 5, 2017 6:34 PM • by Karunakar Donthamshetti InFocus Turbo 5 Plus Smartphone with 4850mAh Battery Coming Soon InFocus A1s smartphone has recently launched in India for a price tag of 5,499, which is the upgraded version of InFocus A1 and is priced at just Rs. 4,499. Now, this brand is teasing a new smartphone on the microblogging website on Twitter & as well as Facebook named as InFocus Turbo 5 Plus. The upcoming smartphone is the successor of the InFocus Turbo 5 smartphone which was launched back in June at a price tag of Rs. 6,999 for 2GB model and Rs. 7,999 for the 3GB model. This phone is equipped with a slightly smaller battery of 4850mAh battery than InFocus Turbo 5 packed with a 5,000mAh capacity battery. As of now, we don't have any other hardware specifications other than battery information. This phone is teasing on Twitter that it has a tagline of this phone is "it's all about power." So, this phone is going to unveil in India very soon which offers powerful specifications at an affordable price in a segment. We expecting a price of this smartphone around Rs. 8,000. Pick & hold anything heavy. Upload pics/videos with #ItsAllAboutPower & win #InFocusTurbo5Plus + goodies! TCA https://t.co/pIeWEPb84I (2/2) pic.twitter.com/UlbNUb40vK — InFocus India (@InFocus_IN) September 5, 2017 To recall, the InFocus Turbo 5 smartphone sports a 5.2-inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720-pixel resolution and offers 282ppi of pixel density. It comes with a 64-bit 1.25GHz MT6737 quad-core processor coupled with 2GB RAM & 3GB RAM. There are 16GB / 32GB of internal storage options which are further expandable via microSD card slot up to 32GB. It is a dual SIM phone carried by 4G LTE network and has a 13MP & 5MP rear & front-facing camera. It runs on the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system out of the box. This email has been sent by Froze ONE (isnanmm0@gmail.com). It is the potion result of 'Tech: Topic watch' from the dashboard 'Personal Dashboard', tab 'Tech > Android'. Unsubscribe © Netvibes 2005-2017 | Terms of service | Privacy Policy Find Netvibes also on: Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr

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