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Android 4.0.3 Full of Bug Fixes & Tablet Optimizations

Google has announced Android 4.0.3 an incremental release of the Android 4.0 which includes a variety of optimizations and bug fixes for phones and tablets. Additionally developers will have access to a small number of new level 15 APIs. If you take a closer look…

Android Ice Cream Sandwich to Have OS-Level Stylus Support

It’s a good time for stylus and Android enthusiasts. First the HTC Flyer came out with limited stylus support, then Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note was built with heavy stylus use in mind.
Now Android 4.0, AKA Ice Cream Sandwich, has a specific API for stylus…

Intel’s AppUp! Takes Location Seriously by Acquiring Telmap

Intel has decided to jump into the location game. At AppUp! Elements today they annouced that they would be aquiring Telmap, a leading company in navigation and location-based service.
Back in September Telmap was named one of the 50 fastest growing companies in Isreal. The…

Chrome Webstore Adds International Support to its In-App Payments

Google opened its In-App Payments API to all web application developers a few weeks ago but it was only open the US developers.  We first heard about In-App Payments way back in at Google I/O. So what we’ve been waiting for all is months is…

Android 3.0 Shows Off Encrypted Tablet Feature

Didn’t think that Android was going to be able to compete against the Playbook and its focus on business user needs? Well think again, Sean over at Engadget had a closer look at the Motorola Xoom and uncovered that there’s an “Encrypt Tablet” option that…

How Painting works in Chrome with Brett Wilson

Because of Chromium’s multi-process architecture, painting within Chromium is far from typical. In this talk, Brett Wilson starts from Skia and the WebKit render tree, follows the bits across the process boundaries, and continues all the way to your screen. He also details many of…

Learn about Chromium Layout Tests with Pam Greene

Layout Tests are the tests we inherit from the WebKit project and are a very important part of the Chromium’s testing infrastructure. Pam Greene talks about what they are, how to run them, how to debug problems within them, and even touches on how to…

Chrome’s WebKit Guts with Eric Seidel

A large percentage of Chromium’s code (and part of what makes it so fast) is WebKit. In this talk, Eric Seidel gives us a 30,000 foot view of how WebKit actually renders a page. He starts with how resources are loaded, explains how they’re parsed…

Learn about Chromium WebKit API with Darin Fisher

Darin Fisher talks about the recently upstreamed Chromium WebKit API. The API is a critical step in our path to becoming completely integrated into the WebKit project. Like the other WebKit APIs, ours is a veneer which shields developers (including many of our own) from…