What is Android M? Just Google’s ultra-polished Android platform, and the future of mobile technology.

Android M opens up an amazing opportunity for developers, and budding developers, to create new, innovative apps that tap into this limitless technology—and it’s your chance to take advantage.

In just six weeks — and for just $17 for a limited time — you will learn to create real apps like Uber and Instagram with project-based lessons. Complete this course and you’ll be selling your apps on Google Play in no time!

Finagle just exists to get you free stuff. Photo: David Repas

Developer David Repas just wants to give you some free stuff with no obligation on your part.

“I’m just one guy trying to create a company around giving stuff away,” he tells Cult of Android. “I’m not into people tracking, annoying users or any of that funny business.”

The app, Finagle, is the simplest we’ve seen. Download it for iOS or Android, add in your email and mobile number and boom, you’re set. Simply look at the latest giveaway (Repas is offering a Pebble Time smartwatch currently) and you’re entered a random drawing to win.

Getting free stuff is never this easy. What’s the catch?

If you’re interested in learning to develop mobile apps, this course bundle, clocking in at over 77 hours, is the best way to learn how to conceive, craft, and deploy working apps on iOS and Android.

It’s a wide-ranging, deep bundle of lessons over 10 courses that can sharpen anyone’s app development chops, and right now, you can the whole thing is just $49 through Cult of Android Deals.

Android Pay comes to your apps. Photo: Google

You can now use Android Pay to make purchases inside compatible Android apps. Lyft, OpenTable, and Wish are some of the titles that already support Google’s mobile payment service, and many more will be updated with Android Pay support in the coming months.

Parchi wants to help you stay productive on the go. Photo: Neowin

You know when you’re rushing to catch the train or the Starbucks barista is shouting at you to collect your coffee, but you need to jot down something important before you forget it? Well, Microsoft has the perfect app for that.

It’s called Parchi, and it’s a lightweight note-taking app that makes it faster and easier than ever to save the things that are most important to you.