Remix OS has a dedicated desktop UI. Photo: Jide Technology
Android has long been available on desktops in some form, but it has never been done right. That’s going to change later this month with Remix OS, a platform that brings Android to almost any Mac and PC — and makes it usable by adding a familiar desktop interface.
Damn that easy-to-use grid of apps! Photo: Apple
The arrival of the original iPhone may have fundamentally changed Google’s plans for its Android smartphone platform, but according to Google’s Vice President of Design, Matias Duarte, Apple’s iOS layout — consisting of grids of apps icons — is disappointingly stagnant.
“[The iPhone] crystallised a lot of other things that were kind of stayed even by that point,” Duarte told Wired in an interview, “like the rows of icons, which don’t scale very well. This idea of a tiny grid that you manually curate starts to feel very heavy and burdensome.”
Newer versions of Marshmallow are seeing this tiny bug. Photo: Nicolás Fischman
It looks as if suers who’ve upgraded to the latest version of Android, Marshmallow 6.0.1 have noticed that the option to toggle Do Not Disturb “until next alarm” has gone missing.
If the option has gone missing on your own Android handset, there’s a handy workaround posted by the Android Police that will have it back onto your smartphone quickly, letting you use it until Google figures out a fix. Here’s how.
The King of All Cosmos is back, telling the Prince what to roll up. Photo: Bandai Namco
Describing the funky weirdness of Katamari Damacy has always been somewhat of a challenge. You play a pill-headed little person who must roll a big sticky ball around various environments, picking up weird stuff like rice candy, cows, and pencils, while taking your quests from some odd king-looking dude who speaks in an odd, english as a second language-flavored patois.
It’s bizarre, but super fun, and its coming to a mobile phone near you as Tap My Katamari on iOS and Android. Check out the teaser trailer below.
This is what it sounds like, when pigs fly. Photo: Warner Bros./5th Cell
Scribblenauts has been on one device or another since 2009, and the latest version, Unlimited, is headed to mobile right now.
Main character and magic notebook owner Maxwell’s got a sister, Lily, who he’s gotten cursed thanks to his smart-ass ways. The pair go to see Edwin, one of the 40 other brothers and sisters of Maxwell and Lily (go figure), and find out that doing nice things for people is the only way to earn starite, the magical cure for Lily’s curse.
Free to download on Google Play and the App Store, Scribblenauts Unlimited brings a completely new storyline that reveals the backstory of Maxwell’s parents, 41 siblings, and of his twin sister Lily, not to mention how he acquired his magical notepad.
