Google’s annual Santa tracker website has been updated in preparation of Christmas of 2015. The updated site and app feature a countdown to Christmas, along with several fun games which you can play to earn achievements on Play Games. There’s also watchfaces for Android Wear, scenes for Google Cardboard and support for Android TV app.
Remember the Original Samsung Galaxy S? We won’t fault you if you don’t remember this almost 6 year old device. The device should be firmly in the graves by now, but through the efforts of XDA Senior Member sooti, users who still have the great great great grandfather of Galaxy flagships can enjoy the taste of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Fair warning, the ROM is in alpha, so expect bugs in a lot of places.
Frequent readers may be aware that we recently went through a breakup with Dev-Host. To celebrate moving on and new horizons, we have teamed up with Android File Host to give away a dozen one year premium dev accounts and a 2nd gen Chromecast!
Premium Devs accounts come with all these benefits:
These usually cost $39.99 per year but for a lucky 12 of our readers you can have them free! Now the competition is open to anyone, so no matter where you live feel free to enter and we will announce the winners on the 7th of December.
Owners of the Asus Zenfone 5 will be happy to know that the device has its own dedicated sub forum now on XDA Developers forum! The forum is already populated with development works from the community, so go on ahead and take a look!
Motorola has begun soak tests for the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update coming up for the Moto X Pure Edition. The test rom update is available to testers in the US, and bumps up the system version to 24.11.18. If everything goes right, the update should go official for all Moto X Pure Edition owners within one or two weeks.
Taking inspiration from Chainfire’s work on systemless root, XDA Member ivcarlos has created a systemless root image for the Mot X Style on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. You still need an unlocked bootloader for this to work, but do not need to replace bootloader or recovery. Follow along the thread for more instructions!
Yu’s next flagship is all set to be revealed on 7th December 2015 as event invites have been sent out for that day. So far, Yu Yutopia is expected to come with a 5.2″ QHD display, SD-810 with 4GB RAM and a 21MP rear camera. Pricing is rumored to be around the OnePlus 2.
