Designed by India’s premier institute, IIT Madras, funded by Indian Government, developed by JandK Operations Private Limited (JandKops), free and open-source, is getting an alternative to the most dominant mobile operating systems of Android and iOS. An operating system, that boasts of complete privacy, with...
Category: Operating Systems
Android SDK Extensions – Extend new functionality to existing Android devices
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
January 14, 2023
Android, since version 10, has been supporting Modular System Components. This allows to expedite functional and security updates to the Android ecosystem outside of major API level releases and make new functionality backward compatible on already-released Android versions. End-user devices can receive updates to these...
CentOS Hyperscale is CentOS targetted towards enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. It is being built by a group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and other hyperscalers, by making optional changes to CentOS Stream to better suit...
Android Auto overhaul – Share your digital car key!
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
January 12, 2023
After years, Google finally has brought in a major overhaul to its Android Auto infotainment system. Android Auto has been around for almost a decade with ever growing acceptance amongst the users and car manufacturers alike. Simply connect your phone to your car display –...
You can now confidently continue to use CentOS 7 till June 2028! CentOS 7 security updates end in June 2024. TuxCare, an innovator in enterprise-grade cybersecurity for Linux, has announced that they’ll be offering an Extended Lifecycle Support for CentOS 7 until June 2028. TuxCare...
CentOS Stream is as popular a laptop/desktop Operating System as much as it is a Server based one. And when it comes to working on your personal machine, you’d always love to work on a GUI instead of on terminal. CentOS Stream itself comes with...
OKD Streams, the Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powersRed Hat OpenShift, has launched a fully open source release pipeline that the community can participate in, to help support and manage the release cycle ourselves. The OKD Community is now able to build and release stable...
As the holiday season kicks in, Android has come up with some new features to spice up your holidays, as part of Android’s December 2022 features update! Some of them even can help you get in the spirit, too. Have fun and express yourself with...
Google is raising the quality bar on Android apps, with sharing insights and notices to both, the developers as well as users. Quality of an app is as important to the end user as it should be to the developer, as that is what will...
Now in Android – Google’s official reference app for Android developers
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
November 12, 2022
Now in Android is the Google’s official reference app for Android developers. Google’s Now in Android is a sample application, that Android developers can refer to, in order to get a complete reference of what the Android team has done recently, what is expected, what...