OnePlus unveiled their latest device today, the OnePlus X. OnePlus devices tend to have very good community support, and the OnePlus X seems to follow along the same path. Catch up with other forum members while you wait to receive your invite for this mid-ranger!
In the 3rd quarter of 2015, LG’s mobile division saw it’s first operating loss in over a year. The company’s smartphone business lost $68 million dollars even though they were able to sell 15 million devices. Their overall revenue also dropped by 48% compared to last year coming in at just over $127 million. Most of LG’s profit came from home appliances, but their TV division also helped out too.
Are you an Android developer? If you are, there’s a good chance you use Google’s Android Studio, and you use it quite frequently. By default, Android Studio disables some features that you would expect to appear in any modern IDE. Thankfully, Dmytro Danylyk has compiled a short guide on how to configure Android Studio to be more useful for any developer.
Dual Window is LG’s version of multi-window. By default, only certain apps that have implemented a specific flag in the AndroidManifest.xml file support Dual Window. If you’re unrooted and looking to add Dual Window support to an unsupported app, you can follow this guide by a redditor to manually add support. Ideally, you can ask the developer behind your favorite app to update, but this will work regardless.
Samsung just published their quarterly report for Q3 of 2015 with things looking pretty good for the South Korean tech giant. Firstly, revenue was up by 9%(to $45.1 billion) and profits were up 29% compared to last year. While sales were up in their smartphone division, it wasn’t what the company has expected and most of the profit has come up an increase demand in chips and displays.
If your Samsung Galaxy device is reacting slowly to your fingerprint, you might just be able to fix it thanks to a discovery by a redditor on /r/Android. The general idea is that instead of adding multiple fingerprints, you’ll instead set up only one fingerprint profile and mix and match fingerprints. Be warned however that there’s a slight possibility that doing this will make fingerprint unlocking less secure.
A new update to the Google Play Games application will let you record the game you’re currently playing in 720p or 480p. All you’ll have to do is launch the Google Play Games app, find the game and then hit the record button. The front facing camera can record your reactions and then you can edit the footage before uploading it to YouTube.
