Enlarge / This green circle (we added the background) is the Android 12 logo, we guess. The first Android 12 developer preview hit the streets Thursday, and we’ve played with it for a day. There’s not a lot to see in this release—at least not at first. Most of the interesting bits are hidden, and […]
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How one developer is sneaking emulators through a hole in the Xbox Store
How the RetroArch menu looks on the Xbox Series X. Finally, a way to load the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D on my 4K TV. An in-game menu overlay that can be brought up with a user-set combination of buttons. You don’t need a Virtual Boy to play this homebrew racing game on your Xbox […]
Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney targets Apple over developer fees
Tim Sweeney, the founder of Epic Games, said Apple is holding up technological progress with the 30% cut it takes from developers off the top of App Store purchases. He also called out Google for a similar practice, saying that the fees hurt developers and don’t let them grow their businesses. “This is a critical […]
Google’s Wear OS developer preview gets dark UI, lots of battery savings
Enlarge Wear OS by Google Android Wear showed a bit of life a few weeks ago when it was rebranded to “Wear OS by Google,” and today it’s getting a new Developer Preview based on Android P. Besides the upgrade to a newer version of Android, there are a few new features outlined in Google’s blog […]