Fresh images of Hauwei’s upcoming Mate 8 have been released, showing a form factor very similar to last year’s 6-inch phablet. The handset is rumoured to come in two models, featuring a 2k display, 20mp rear camera, 3/4GB RAM and 32/64GB ROM, a fingerprint sensor and a proprietary Kirin 950 64bit processor.
OnePlus Co-founder Carl Pei took to Twitter to clarify the surprise new OnePlus One owners received in the form of a screen protector applied on their new device. Pei said that the move to apply screen protectors was to protect the phone from shatter, and that the phones are new and not refurbished.
The smartphone revolution has passed. Everybody has mobile apps. Some of these apps have access to very important information. Your mobile banking app gives you access to your money. Your Dropbox app could hold your secret plans to world domination. These apps should have greater protection than your Trivia Crack game.
In this episode of XDA Xposed Tuesday, XDA TV Producer TK reviews an Xposed Module that enables you to control access to your apps. XDA Senior Member defim created the ProtectedApps module. So, TK shows off the module and gives his thoughts, so check out this Xposed Tuesday video.
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Action Launcher is a very popular 3rd party launcher, due to its high level of customization and powerful paid features like Covers. Creator Chris Lacy has now teased on Google+ that the app will see a significant upgrade to v3.5 later today, although changes aren’t fully clear yet.
A new revision of Paranoid Android has just been released. For now it’s available only for Nexus devises, but the team is working to expand the compatibility. At this point, ROM offers basic AOSP functionality. Head over to the announcement to learn more about AOSPA and the team.
Continuing on the free app per week promo for the Family section of Google Play Store, this game is now available for free (previously $4.99). Thomas’s Musical Day For Percy follows along Thomas the Tank Engine as he puts on a surprise musical show for friend Percy.
Google Engineers have released what they term “Material Design Light”, a simple method of adding a material theme to a website. It runs with CSS, HTML and JavaScript, and is framework-agnostic, featuring a large number of easy to use templates and components, and so should be very quick to implement.
