Google launches Android Pay on Google Play Store

Google is beginning to roll out the Android Pay app on the Google Play Store. The Mountain View Company announced Android Pay earlier this year at Google I/O along with Android M, the successor of Android Lollipop. Android Pay is a new NFC-based payment service for Android phones and is an effective successor to Google Wallet, although Google Wallet still remains as a service for sending P2P payments. The roll out of the new app actually began last week as an update for Google Wallet users, however, from now onwards the app will be available to all users for direct download. The smartphones must be running Android 4.4 Kitkat or above and equipped with NFC hardware in order to use the app. Presently, the service will only be available in the US and will support a variety of credit and debit cards from various US banks and credit unions.

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Google introduces Material Design Lite to make websites look similar to Android apps

It's Android leading the way as we may soon start seeing webpages in a fresh, new material design look which came to the mobile operating system last year. Google has announced Material Design Lite (MDL) in an effort to bring its material design guidelines to websites using vanilla CSS, HTML and JavaScript. According to Google, MDL has few dependencies and is easy to install. It is framework agnostic, meaning MDL can be used with any of the rapidly changing landscape of front end solutions. MDL uses paper elements that are fully encapsulated components which can be used individually or composed together to create a material design site and support more advanced user interaction. Material Design Lite includes a rich set of components including buttons, text fields, tooltips, spinners and many more. There are also responsive grids and breakpoints that adhere to the new material design adaptive UI guidelines. The complete MDL experience will work on all modern browsers...

Android M Developer Preview updated for Nexus devices

Google has released the Android M Developer Preview 2 which brings enhancements and bug fixes to Developer Preview 1 based on user feedback. Nexus devices running Android M Developer Preview 1 are expected to receive notifications about the OTA update over the next few days. This update brings up to date M release platform code, near-final APIs to validate apps and to provide more testing support, Nexus system images and emulator system images with the Android platform updates have been refined. Apart from the platform update, the system images also include Google Play services 7.6. Other changes include modifications to platform permissions including external storage, WiFi and Bluetooth location and changes to contacts/identity permissions. Here is a list of the key changes in Android M Developer Preview 2. Permissions changes The android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT permission now has "normal" protection level, so it is no longer necessary to request this permission...

Google Nexus and Android M will be released together

Google is planning to launch two Nexus handsets by the end of this year. One of these handsets is going to be the successor of Nexus 5 (2013) which was manufactured by LG. This time also, the Mountain View company has joined hands with the South Korean giant LG to make this year's Nexus release a great success. According to reports, the Nexus 5 (2015) is going to be the flagship device for Android M. The new Nexus 5 is expected to come with a 5.2-inch QHD display and powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 810 processor with 3GB RAM. A bigger sized Nexus phablet manufactured by Huawei is also being expected to be launched during the end of this year. It is expected to arrive with a 5.7-inch display and a Snapdragon 810 processor under the hood. It is very likely that Google's next Android iteration, version M will also simultaneously launch with Nexus 5 (2015) at the end of the year.

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