Popular news reader Pulse News has been updated to version 2.7.4. While nothing major has been added in this update, it does fix a couple bugs. Apparently there were some issues with the Dark Mode which have been fixed, as well as a few tablet bugs. They don’t go into specifics about what these bugs were but if you’re a frequent user of Pulse News, you’ll probably notice the fixes. If you haven’t used Pulse News, it’s a reader that takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. It features:
A post by Scott Main, lead tech writer for developer.android.com, went up yesterday to remind developers that in Google’s eyes, the Menu button is dead. When Google introduced Android 3.0, developers got their first taste of what Google was planning for the future of its UI. Gone was the Menu button, along with the constraints of hardware buttons period. Introduced was the future of Android: software based action buttons. The ActionBar class is now the new standard and Google wants to remind those moving forward to forget about the menu button and focus on the action bar. This is another step towards an overall unified experience on Android, and one that Google hopes developers will adopt, in order to create a consistent experience from here on out.
Some good news for Google Music lovers. Google has finally added some new features to the web interface as well as the Music Manager that now allows you to download all the music you’ve purchased or added to your library. Woot! I know many of you were waiting for this functionality and now it’s here.
Whale Trail is a popular sidescroller that originated from the Apple App Store. The game can best be described as Tiny Wings meets Angry Birds on acid. Whale Trail is a colorful, charming, quirky and addictive game — not to mention one of my personal favorites.
As we’ve already told you, Whale Trail recently launched on the Android Marketplace. I got to sit down with the head of the company behind Whale Trail to talk about the pros and cons between developing for Android and iOS.
It looks like Valve threw a few extra coals into their engine after hearing about the 3rd party Steam app that was released earlier this month. They were not going to let any other app take their steam and so they have now released the official Steam app onto both Android and iOS. I’d like to say users are ecstatic, but there seems to be a catch.
