Tweet Probably the best feature of Paranoid Android’s version of Android has just been open sourced. Its Halo multitasking will soon start to show up on more custom ROM’s. This feature is kind of a cross between Samsung’s multi-window and Facebook Home’s Chat Heads. When you receive a notification you can reply in a [...]
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Tweet It looks like you won’t be able to enjoy any facial recognition apps on Google Glass anytime soon. Google has made a post on the Project Glass Google+ page that states that no such app will be approved until there’s a privacy policy in place to handle it. There’s already an API making [...]
Tweet Sony is continuing their support of the development community by opening up AOSP for the Xperia Tablet Z. Sony says this was done due to the success of the AOSP release for the Xperia Z smartphone. You can click here to download the code and help the project move along all while building [...]
Tweet Cyanogenmod 10.1 nightlies are now available for the HTC One. This ROM is available for the AT&T and T-Mobile version of the device. If you’re unfamiliar with the build, it’s a custom version of vanilla Android and yes, you will lose HTC Sense 5 and all of its apps and features. The ROM [...]
Tweet Late last night actor Wil Wheaton was having a hard time gaining root access on his HTC One. He managed to get the recovery image flashed but could figure out how to gain root. That inspired renowned Android hacker Koushik Dutta to give him a hand. He created the Wil Wheaton recovery that will [...]
Tweet The method to unlock the bootloader on the US version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 might not be released to the public but that isn’t going to stop the Cyanogenmod team. They’ve managed to get their custom build up and running on T-Mobile’s version of the device. We might have a bit [...]
Tweet Out the box the logo on the HTC one is useful at all. HTC however did make sure that the logo doubles as a capacitive button and they could have plans in the future to make use of the button but you can add extra functionality to the logo now. There’s a hack that [...]
Tweet You can now supercharge your phone with Cyanogenmod 10.1 M3. This popular custom ROM brings the latest version of Android to a ton of devices that will likely never receive the update officially. Cyanogenmod brings a stock look to your device with some of the best customizations you’d find on any custom or official [...]
Tweet It looks like the Samsung Galaxy S $ is going to be a very hacker friendly device. There’s a guide to root the Exynos 5 version of the device out ahead of the official launch for the handset, most areas will be getting the Snapdragon 600 version and it’s said that this guide [...]
Tweet It’s taken awhile for us to see some cool benefits of Intel picking up on Android and now that time has come. Intel just released new development code that will allow users to dual boot Windows 8 and Android 4.2.2 on the same device. The code is open sourced for the community to [...]
