Application comprise one or more activities. Because of the mobile and UI experience the operation of an activity is governed by a set of states (like a finite state machine) called the lifecycle. In ...

The app we have been using to illustrate the lifecycle was modified from the one written by Google . I would like to delve into the code because it nicely illustrates a bunch of interesting things: ...

You may have been wondering why we had not yet seen a new June Android update for Pixel phones. The reason is because Google was polishing up Android 17 for a stable release that is arriving today.

The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized ...

After sales of the PlayStation 5 failed to meet expectations, Sony has said the console is entering “the latter stage of its life cycle.” Sony had set an ambitious target of 25 million PS5s sold ...