There’s no denying the fact that we’re seeing explosive growth in smartphones both, in terms of  features and specifications. As cliched as it may sound, it’s the absolute truth...

  It’s been quite a while since we last shared tips for your favorite Firefox browser. Finally, the wait is over! All the mentioned tips and tricks have been tested on the latest Firefox 20.0.1. S...

  Google has introduced an easy way to handle your email with a revamped inbox in Gmail. In its new avatar, Gmail inbox provides a hassle-free way to manage, sort and organize your email. Email inboxes...

  Big internet bills can be a pain, especially when it comes to Android (which has tons of applications that keep using web services in the background). You cannot stop these applications from doing so...

  When I recently got an Android device, the first thing that I did was install lots of applications on it. Later, when I was out, I kept my device connected to the internet on my 3G connection and didn...

  In the last 12 years since Steam came into existence it has become a name synonymous with the world of gaming in its entirety. Taking a step into the Steamworld, we published an article sometime back...

  Recently I was low on battery and needed to conserve it. So I decided to switch to 2G instead of 3G to save some precious minutes of battery. Also, I wanted to limit the data packets being sent and re...

  Considering this is April, the most obvious thing to do this month would be to sharpen your funny bone and hone your 'pranking' technique. A good prank is like making lasagne. You need layers of past...

  When it comes to choosing a browser for your android device, chrome is a no-brainer. Here are a few tips to make your experience even better: Preload webpages Chrome can help you render webpages f...

  The Galaxy S5 includes an IR blaster port, while some may think that it is an old technology, Samsung has found a very useful way to utilize it. The IR blaster port along with Samsung’s WatchOn...

  If you own an Android device, then you probably owned something else sometime before. If you owned any other device, your biggest regret could be the fact that you couldn’t transfer all your dat...

  While the title might set off alarm bells for some of you folks it isn’t that bad an idea to have eyes on everything and everyone all the time. Surveillance is sometimes a necessity and sometime...

  My name is Antonio De Falco, and I am the creator of the game Planet Conqueror. Having graduated from University as a Game-Designer, I found myself inclined to develop games that are easy to get into...

  Golden Hammer Software took a trip earlier this year to New York to attend the Intel Android CodeFest.  We updated Big Mountain Snowboarding, Trick Shot Bowling, and Scribble Worm to run natively...

   Introduction Playing with small civilian drones is fun. Building them is even better! For those of you who are interested in developing your own “smart” drone, this article provides...

  I’m Jean-Claude Cottier, a video game industry veteran. I’ve been working in this field for the last 18 years and in 2008, I’ve setup my own solo game studio: Ovogame. Recently,...

  Here's a guide on how to integrate map and geolocation features into an Android business app. This guide specfically tells you on how to includes overlaying store locations on Google Maps*, using...

  More and more Android devices have Intel Inside. Besides getting your hands on Intel-based Android devices to test your apps and make sure they deliver the best experience for your users, there are se...

  In Android, it is very easy to create an app that can play video clips; it is also easy to create a game app with 3D graphic surface. But it is not straightforward to create an app that can play...

  The fact that games are your best bet for getting a healthy and quick response you your Android app on Google Play Store. While gaming apps do score the highest in terms of downloads, popularity and a...

   OpenCL™ Basic Tutorial for Android* OS provides guidelines on using OpenCL in Android applications. The tutorial is an interactive image processing Android application. The main focus for...

   Intel(R) CilkTM Plus is a set of language extension of Intel(R) compiler, which can help to quickly and easily implement parallelism and vectorization for C/C++ code. You may refer to its m...

  Android apps are typically written in Java* because of its elegant object-oriented design and the fact that the Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides cross-platform features in Java....

  The H.265/HEVC standard is becoming more and more popular in the mobile market. Online video providers, mobile Internet users, and broadcast/TV operators are the beneficiaries of this new video revolu...

  Mobile applications can behave differently between emulator and device and, as an app grows more and more complex, debugging performance bottlenecks can become extremely difficult. The GPA System Anal...

  This tutorial explains how to use Intel® INDE Media Pack for Android* to add video capturing capability to Unity applications. Prerequisites: Unity 4.3.0. Capturing works as a fullscreen...

  Most Android applications, even those based only on scripting and managed languages (Java*, HTML5,...) eventually use middleware features that would benefit from optimization. This article willl di...

  Abstract Tencent wanted to give gamers the best experience on Intel® Ultrabook™ and 2 in 1 systems. Legend of Xuan Yuan was already a successful game, but these systems provided Tencent w...

  Introduction Mobile games with stunning graphics and realistic physics are now possible due to the increasing compute power now available on mobile devices. Effects such as grenade explosions in sh...

  Introduction Android* applications may require a peer-to-peer connection between two or more Android* devices without a Wi-Fi access point or Internet access. Two examples of this are file sharing...

  Cocos2D is a game engine that works with various devices from PCs to smart phones. This engine supports the vast majority of the features needed to make wonderful 2D-based games; it even includes a fu...

  Security Enhancements for Android (SEAndroid) Android has added some new features to the 4.4 version of the Android OS ("Kitkat"). The most important change among the new features is the...

  Download PDF 1. Introduction This article gives a brief overview of Rover, then focuses on our implementation of the human-robot interface utilizing the Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK for g...

  While India has kept in step with the way the Internet is used in the West in most aspects, we’re still behind when it comes to consuming streaming content. Apart from YouTube and some music and...

  With augmented reality (AR) reaching smartphones, tablets, wearables (such as Google Glass*), and other platforms, the market is ripe for an AR development explosion across every conceivable applicati...

  Innovations in computing form factors such as All-in-One (AIO) and tablet devices that combine desktop-like performance with multi-touch-enabled, high-resolution screens are giving people fun new ways...

  As almost every component in your PC can be tweaked to get better performance, SSDs are no different. Not a lot of people know that they can adjust a few different settings in their systems to ooze ou...

  Picked up a brand spanking new SSD? or thinking about getting one to improve the performance of your PC or laptop? Well, you’ll need to know how to go about installing or mounting it once you ha...

  Overview With Android x86-based Intel® architecture devices increasing in prominence in the marketplace, the libGDX team set out to ensure developers could seamlessly deploy their games and app...

  Intel has a vested interest in helping developers provide Android applications that run well (or even best) on Intel architecture. While Intel is working at the community level - optimizing Dalvik Jav...

  More and more Android devices have Intel Inside. Besides getting your hands on Intel-based Android devices to test your apps and make sure they deliver the best experience for your users, there are se...

  When developing an Android* application, you usually need to test, optimize, and debug on many different platforms. While basically every hardware and chip manufacturer provides a set of custom tools...

  Introduction Modern user interface design has evolved dramatically in the last few years, with animation-rich interactions becoming the norm. On mobile devices, where screen space is at a premium a...

  Intro RenderScript is a scripting language on Android. You can use it to write high performance graphics rendering and raw computational code. The RenderScript API includes high performance func...

  Abstract In mobile apps, using a simple database backend such as SQLite can be useful in a variety of use cases. In this article we will take a look at Android* SQLite API and helper classes for da...

   Debugging Android* NDK apps with Eclipse* and gdb Eclipse* with ADT plugin and CDT, all part of the ADT bundle, support the Android* NDK quite well. You can even use gdb integration to debug yo...

  In this article I will be demonstrating how to create a basic Node.js application using Intel Mashery's JamBase API with Intel Edison and XDK. You will find accompanying GitHub source in the provi...

  Introduction Bluetooth* LE (BLE) communication use is exploding both in commercial products and hobby applications, mainly due to its low-cost and low-power requirements. This makes it an excellent...

  First time users of Intel® HAXM can occasionally run into situations where they are not sure if their Android* emulator is in fact using HAXM technology. This article will provide the necessary st...

  Last week, Xiaomi announced the global variant of its MiUI 7 ROM, based on Android Lollipop v5.1. As stated at launch, the MiUI 7 beta v5.8.22 is now available for download. Here&#...