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After Teasing Its Touch-Friendly Future, Canonical Officially Reveals The Ubuntu Phone OS Ubuntu isn’t exactly a stranger to the mobile space — it started showing off its Ubuntu for Android project in early 2012, but it wasn’t about to stop there. Not long after teasing the prospect of a touch-friendly future for its peculiarly-named OS, Canonical has officially pulled back the curtains on its Ubuntu phone OS and it looks, well, great. That beauty comes from the fact that it doesn’t really look like any other mobile UI out there right now — it eschews the traditional app grid concept that pervades iOS and stock Android and instead relies on horizontal swipes to view oft-used applications and switch between currently running ones. In a way, it’s approach is more reminiscent of Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT than either of the two leading mobile OSes, though whether those UI decisions catch on is another story entirely. Plenty of sweat has been poured into the crafting of Ubuntu’s search functionality as well, and it’s mildly reminiscent of Palm/HP’s webOS.

These Guys Want to Hack Your Home. And You Should Let Them | Wired Enterprise Web applications don’t have physical properties, so it can be hard to know what you can use them for. But by making it clear what different apps can do and how they can be stitched together, IFTTT makes it possible to use web applications in ways the original developers didn’t intend. IFTTT — and alternatives like the open source alternative Hugin or the business-oriented service Zapier — have become a standard part of the Quantified Self toolkit, letting users automate and analyze their lives. Perhaps more importantly, IFTTT is giving power to people who don’t know the first thing about coding. There’s been a great push in recent years to train more people to program. “Introducing people to programming concepts through IFTTT will, hopefully, show them the power of programming and get them excited to learn to truly program using something like Codecademy,” Sims says. IFTTT can also be used by experienced programers to more quickly and easily accomplish tasks without coding.

Building Your First App Welcome to Android application development! This class teaches you how to build your first Android app. You’ll learn how to create an Android project and run a debuggable version of the app. You'll also learn some fundamentals of Android app design, including how to build a simple user interface and handle user input. Before you start this class, be sure you have your development environment set up. Download the Android SDK. Note: Make sure you install the most recent versions of the ADT plugin and the Android SDK before you start this class. If you haven't already done these tasks, start by downloading the Android SDK and following the install steps. This class uses a tutorial format that incrementally builds a small Android app that teaches you some fundamental concepts about Android development, so it's important that you follow each step. Start the first lesson ›

Canonical Unveils Ubuntu For Tablets, Developer Preview Available For Nexus Devices On Thursday Hot on the heels of the announcement of Ubuntu on phones comes Canonical’s latest announcement: Ubuntu on tablets. This is, in many ways, a no-brainer: Android and iOS have already demonstrated that the same OS can work on both form factors. But the story is a little more interesting when you consider what Ubuntu offers. I spoke with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project and currently VP of Products at Canonical, about Ubuntu for tablets and phones. While it’s the same distribution codebase, each platform uses a Linux kernel tailored for the specifics of the target hardware. Apps written for Ubuntu desktops will run on Ubuntu phones and tablets. Canonical is aggressively embracing the post-PC culture, and are driving computing convergence with a coherent “multi-screen” strategy. An unexpectedly interesting aspect of Ubuntu on phones is that developers with touch-enabled desktops can test out their mobile applications right from their desktop.

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Android tutorial Android is an open source and Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies. This tutorial will teach you basic Android programming and will also take you through some advance concepts related to Android application development. This tutorial has been prepared for the beginners to help them understand basic Android programming. After completing this tutorial you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in Android programming from where you can take yourself to next levels. Android programming is based on Java programming language so if you have basic understanding on Java programming then it will be a fun to learn Android application development. 1 - Android Quick Reference Guide A quick Android reference guide for Android Programmers. Android Quick Reference Guide 2 - Android Useful Resources Android Useful Resources 3 - Java Tutorials Java Tutorials

DefCon To Feds: Please Be Elsewhere When Our Annual Confab Rolls Around Since its founding in 1992, the annual hacker conference DefCon has encouraged computer enthusiasts of all sorts—federal agents included—to mix and share ideas in Las Vegas. Among other things, federal agencies have used the confab as a headhunting paradise as they beefed up their own cybersecurity efforts. But that may come to a screeching halt this year in the wake of disclosures about the NSA's allegedly vast cybersurveillance programs. For the first time, DefCon has asked the feds to steer clear of the conference, citing a desire for a "time out" that would give people time to cool off—and that could also presumably head off ugly confrontations. (See also: ReadWrite's coverage of PRISM) The robot who paints (Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) E-David is an artistically inclined robot that uses special software to process its work on the fly to decide where to add the next brush stroke. We usually call a robot that can produce images a printer, but e-David is special. E-David, created by a team at the University of Konstanz, Germany, is a painter bot — not the kind that spray paints auto parts, but of the more artistic variety. E-David doesn't come up with images on its own, but instead takes a picture of what it wants to copy and takes it from there. "We equipped a standard robot with all necessary means for painting. The images produced by e-David look organic and fluid. Maybe one day, we'll even get a ship that can sing. Via thecreatorsproject.vice.com