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Lawnchair is a customizable launcher based on the Pixel Launcher. It’s been in the works for  about a year now , and Lawnchair v1 stable has just been released. Lawnchair boasts a huge amount of features over similar launchers, such as the  Rootless Pixel Launcher . That’s not to say it’s any better, it’s just made differently. Lawnchair is a separate application under a different package name with features ported from the Pixel Launcher over to it. This also meant that it could be released  on the Google Play Store . You can check out XDA TV’s review of the initial release below.  Note that for now, it isn’t guaranteed to work on Android Oreo. We had no issues, but that doesn’t mean you won’t either.   Lawnchair Stable v1 Features and Screenshots Google Now (a.k.a. Google Feed) integration ( Requires the Lawnfeed add-on app ) Android Oreo shortcuts and notification dots Icon Pack support Variable Icon Size Custom Grid Size Dock Customization Adaptive Icons (For Nougat &

Nearly every developer will be familiar with GitHub, but slightly fewer may be familiar with its competitor GitLab. Following the purchase of GitHub by Microsoft for $7.5 billion, many are switching over from GitHub. The platform has seen a surge of activity in the past 24 hours. To gain the trust of more users as an alternative to GitHub, GitLab will now be offering GitLab Ultimate and GitLab Gold for free to open source projects and educational institutions. What do both of these packages offer? The base service already offers a number of features for free that GitHub doesn’t including the option to create private repositories. The Ultimate and Gold packages offer pretty much the same thing, but while Ultimate is self-hosted, Gold is provided as a service. Both include all features available on the platform including Epics, Roadmap, Static Application Security Testing, Container Scanning, and more. The only thing you won’t get as part of an open source project or educational inst

Device manufacturers work with Google to certify that Android devices with Google apps installed are secure and will run apps correctly. To be certified, a device must pass Android compatibility tests. If you are unable to add a Google Account on your Android device, your Android device software might not have passed Android compatibility tests, or the device manufacturer has not submitted the results to Google to seek approval. As a result, your device is uncertified. This means that your device might not be secure. If you are a User wanting to use custom ROMs on your device, please register your device by submitting your Google Services Framework Android ID (not Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID or SSAID) below. This can be retrieved by using the ADB shell command: 1. adb root 2. adb shell 'sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "select* from main where name = \"android_id\";"' It will return an id. Register The id at   https://www.go

This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 19 “Tara”  Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 19 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2023. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements. For an overview of the new features please visit: “ What’s new in Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon “. Important info: The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions. To read the release notes, please visit: “ Release Notes for Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon ” System requirements: 1GB RAM (2GB recommended for a comfortable usage). 15GB of disk space (20GB recommended). 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen). Notes: The 64-bit ISO can boot with BIOS or UEFI. The 32-bit ISO c

As it was previously rumored, Microsoft has now officially announced today that they’re buying GitHub for $7.5 billion. You’re probably well acquainted with GitHub. After all, it’s the go-to place for developers on our forums to upload the source code for their applications, custom kernels, custom AOSP-based ROMs, and much more. On the off-chance that you aren’t familiar with GitHub, it’s the most popular hosting service for Git repositories where you can upload the source code for your project and manage it with collaboration features such as bug tracking, commits, feature request, wikis, and more. GitHub has remained independent for the entirety of its existence, but that could change as Microsoft has reportedly agreed to purchase it. It’s a stunning move if you consider Microsoft’s early history with regards to Linux, but less surprising given the company’s more recent history. Microsoft has slowly shifted their stance towards open source projects, even going so far as open

Congratulations to GitHub on their  acquisition by Microsoft ! This is validation of the growing influence of software developers in the world, and the importance of modern DevOps. The software community owes a lot to GitHub, and that includes the GitLab community. GitLab was first developed on GitHub and found its first contributors through it. Code collaboration before GitHub Over the years, code collaboration has come a long way. Many developers will remember how code was often hosted on private websites, FTP servers, email, and IRC. We used to stuff a floppy disk or CD-ROM with code and mail it back and forth, or send patches to newsgroups or mailing lists in order to share and work on code together. It was a painful, error-prone time. Git, the version control system used by GitHub, GitLab, and others, was first introduced in 2005. It allowed developers to work asynchronously, across the globe, on the same code. GitWeb went a step further, with its web interface for browsi

According to a comment by notable leaker Roland Quandt from  WinFuture , Google is reportedly planning on launching a mid-range  Google Pixel  device with the Qualcomm  Snapdragon 710  system-on-chip in the first half of 2019. Posted on twitter  https://twitter.com/rquandt A return to their roots? The Google Pixel series of smartphones is a flagship line-up. They all cost a pretty penny because they feature the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset (the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 on the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 on the Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL), the latest Android experience from Google with years of guaranteed support, and the best Google software such as the Google Camera app. Before the Pixel, the Google Nexus was known for their flagship-tier specifications at a mid-range price (though that’s really only true for the Google Nexus 4 and Google Nexus 5 as phones like the Google Nexus 6 and Google Nexus 6P were priced quite

Google has updated the official Android website, and the 'Tablets' section is gone. So now there are only five sections on the home page, including Phones, Wear, TV, Auto, and Enterprise. Now : Earlier : Any attempt to access the 'Tablets' page (http://www.android.com/tablets/) now results in redirection to the home page of the website. So it's quite evident now that the company is done with tablets. And that shouldn't be surprising as users have been losing interest in tablets. According to a recent report, the tablets market touched a new low last quarter, with only only 33 million units shipped. That's a 28.2% fall on quarterly basis and 14.9% YoY. Source

Sometimes your phone creates two or more than two copies of a single contact. This mostly happens when you factory reset a device and sync contacts or change SIM and accidentally sync all contacts. This can completely clutter the contacts, making it hard to navigate through contacts. Now, you can always manually delete each and every copy of the all the contacts, but this will take forever. Not to worry, we know some simple tricks to remove duplicate contacts from your phone with a few taps. In this tutorial, we are going to show you different methods to delete duplicate contacts, you can use the one that you can access easily. Download this App from playstore (click the image) or Direct download : Link

Android Oreo  (Go Edition), also simply called Android Go, is Google’s solution to the growing importance of emerging markets where budget devices reign supreme. Android Go is Android 8.1 Oreo  optimized for low-end hardware ; it’s basically just a  set of build configurations and special Go edition applications  designed to run on hardware with as little as 512MB of RAM. The ( now defunct )  ZTE Tempo Go ,  Alcatel 1X ,  Nokia 1 , and  Nokia 2.1  are just some of the budget phones running Android Oreo (Go Edition). For developers looking to get new users, it’s important to optimize their apps to run on low-end hardware. But if you have no interest or cannot reasonably optimize your app to run on Go edition devices, then you’ll be happy to know that the Google Play Console now lets you add exclusion rules to prevent your apps from being downloaded on them. Users can still side-load your APK, though. If you simply wish to prevent users on budget hardware from having a poor exper

The Windows 10 on ARM project is pretty interesting in itself. Microsoft is aiming to bring the full Windows 10 desktop experience—which was, since its initial launch, an x86-only OS—to ARM-based SoCs, including support for full, desktop-grade apps and games. It was initially demoed with last year’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset, and while it worked fine for most use cases, it was still not quite perfect, having a lot of limitations like a lack of OpenGL support. According to  WinFuture,  Asus seems to be ready to take the lead when it becomes more mature and usable for the wider audience, however, and Qualcomm wants to begin setting the ground as well with the alleged Snapdragon 1000. Since 2013, Qualcomm has featured 4 main SoC lines under the Snapdragon moniker: 2xx for the rock bottom spectrum of the market, the 4xx meant for budget phones, the 6xx meant for mid-range devices (and further extended with the new 7xx line), and the 8xx meant for flagships. There’s very little in

MIUI 9 was announced back in July 2017. The global version of MIUI 9 was launched in November, and since then, Xiaomi has slowly updated most of its smartphones with MIUI 9. MIUI 9 brought performance improvements, while the incremental MIUI 9.5 update also brought notification handling behavior in MIUI in line with stock Android. At an event in China, Xiaomi announced MIUI 10, the successor of MIUI 9, alongside the launch of the Mi 8, Mi 8 Explorer Edition, and the Mi 8 SE. It should be noted that many details about MIUI 10 aren’t currently known yet. An unreleased MIUI 9 build for the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 was actually an early build of MIUI 10. MIUI 9’s China and Global ROMs have significant differences in functionality, so it’s unclear for now whether all the announced details apply for the global version of MIUI 10 (which has not been launched yet) as well. MIUI 10 is powered by AI, according to Xiaomi. AI features include AI Portrait and AI Preload. AI Portrait offers a software