15 03, 2024

Tips for Gamedevs from Google’s Game Developer Summit

By |2024-03-15T16:53:57-04:00March 15, 2024|Android Marketing|Comments Off on Tips for Gamedevs from Google’s Game Developer Summit

Another year, another game dev summit from Google. On March 12, 2024, Google's digital game dev summit took place. It was an excellent sort-of-webinar for those interested in hearing out what Google has to offer for developing Android games and promoting them. If you've missed it, don't worry, as they've posted a YouTube recap of the game dev summit, which I highly recommend listening to.

10 03, 2024

The most promising wearables presented at MWC

By |2024-03-10T14:51:15-04:00March 10, 2024|News|Comments Off on The most promising wearables presented at MWC

Things evolve each year, especially in the technological field, and MWC is the perfect event to see what we can expect on the short term. At this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), there were truly a plethora of announcements. Some of the presented things are good, creating eagerness (i.e. the Samsung Smart Ring), others not so good but announced only for marketing purposes (i.e. the transparent laptop screen). Anyway, some of the most interesting Android devices in my opinion were the wearables and foldables, as it seems these two categories are here to stay. OnePlus Watch 2 and Xiaomi Watch 2, respectively, are the two most promising wearables to be released soon.

8 03, 2024

Fun with Kotlin: Calculate Hamming Distance between DNA strands

By |2024-03-08T05:34:19-04:00March 8, 2024|Kotlin|Comments Off on Fun with Kotlin: Calculate Hamming Distance between DNA strands

I've started having even more fun with Kotlin. One way you can learn Kotlin is by practicing and solving real exercises. That's how I discovered Exercism.org, a free way to learn dozens of languages by jumping head first into problems. One of their first exercises for learning Kotlin is calculating the Hamming Distance between DNA strands.

6 03, 2024

Fun with Kotlin: What is the double-bang (!!) operator?

By |2024-03-06T09:53:19-04:00March 6, 2024|Kotlin|Comments Off on Fun with Kotlin: What is the double-bang (!!) operator?

This made me scratch my head a few times before understanding what those double-exclamation points mean in some Kotlin code references, but it seems it's not that difficult to understand. This is another post in the "Fun with Kotlin" series. Btw, I didn't explain before because I thought it's easy to spot, I chose "Fun with Kotlin" because the word fun in Kotlin is what you start the declaration of a function with and it also means having a great time. I know, a bad dad joke but I couldn't help myself.

5 03, 2024

Fun with Kotlin: String Templates

By |2024-03-05T06:28:42-04:00March 5, 2024|Kotlin|Comments Off on Fun with Kotlin: String Templates

Coding your own Android app as a newbie dev sounds extremely difficult. Sure, there are a lot of platforms out there that allow you to create your Android app without any coding knowledge, but at some point if you need anything advanced you'll still need to look at the code. That's one of the reason I've recently started having a bit of fun with Kotlin to see where that gets me. In the worst case scenario I'll simply give up on learning it after spending a bit of time doing so - but even this scenario has the benefit of training my mind (learning something new helps) and in the end I'd still know something new. The best case scenario is the one where I manage to publish a small Android app built from scratch.

2 03, 2024

Google Pixel 8 wins best smartphone award in MWC 2024

By |2024-03-02T15:38:26-04:00March 2, 2024|Smartphones|Comments Off on Google Pixel 8 wins best smartphone award in MWC 2024

The Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona is almost over, so as usual they give awards for groundbreaking innovations and revolutionary products. The MWC 2024 is a prestigious event and most tech-related innovations are launched or announced here. Thus, their awards are quite sought for because they truly recognize the best in class across various categories. Google Pixel won the best smartphone award, and I must say I'm a bit surprised that Samsung didn't steal that one. Here are the most important awards given at MWC 2024 this year.

28 02, 2024

MWC 2024: Galaxy Ring, Samsung’s first smart ring

By |2024-02-28T08:21:30-04:00February 28, 2024|Technology|Comments Off on MWC 2024: Galaxy Ring, Samsung’s first smart ring

Smart rings are not a new concept as they have been available on the market for quite some time, since the release of the first smart ring by Oura. However, it is the first time that Samsung announces a smart ring, called the Galaxy Ring. This was displayed live at MWC 2024, and even if visitors were not allowed to touch it, you could still see its main characteristics.

27 02, 2024

Yahoo Mail app down (both Android & iOS)

By |2024-02-27T14:57:14-04:00February 27, 2024|News|Comments Off on Yahoo Mail app down (both Android & iOS)

I also use the Yahoo Mail app for Android, and to my surprise today (February 27th, 2024) I couldn't open my email account using the app. Occasionally, Yahoo will have trouble opening up, but I do not recall it having issues for such a long time as they've had today - Yahoo Mail app is still down at the time of writing this, both for Android and iOS. I did check to see if it's a worldwide issue and that's the case, as they've posted a message on the official Yahoo Twitter account that the apps have issues and that those will be solved soon, as their technical team is currently investigating the cause.

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