Google has announced the launch of a brand new Webmaster Tools feature called Security Issues, which shows verified webmasters info concerning the security issues on their sites (in one place), and permits them to find problems faster with detailed code snippets and request reviews for all issues in a single new process. Google’s Meenali Rungta and Hadas Fester say in a joint blog post at the Webmaster Central blog, “We know that as a domain owner, discovering your site is hacked with spam or malware is stressful, and attempting to clean it up under a time constraint may be very challenging. We’ve been working to make recovery even easier and streamline the cleaning process — we notify webmasters when the software they’re running on their site is obsolete, and we’ve arrange a dedicated help portal for hacked sites with detailed articles explaining each step of the method to recovery, including videos.” “Now, when we’ve detected your site could have been hacked with spam or with... Read More »

Google has put out a brand new Google Developers Live video on YouTube discussing the Wallet Objects API and the way to start with their Java quick start sample. It really is designed to assist developers start with their integration quickly. It showcases authorizing access, inserting a brand new Wallet Objects class, using the Saved Wallet API and using the net service API to enable instant sign-up and linking from the Google Wallet app. When Google launched the recent Wallet app last month, it announced some new loyalty programs, which profit from the Objects API, which itself, was launched earlier this year.

After two months of waiting, Google finally unveiled the features its bringing to its mobile OS with Android 4.4. There’s quite a lot of great things for users and you’ll read more about that here. There’s even better news though – Google is making developers’ lives much easier with the most recent incarnation of Android. On the official Android Developers blog, Google laid out all of the new development features coming to Android 4.4, or KitKat. These new features may help developers deliver more immersive apps while adding new functionality. Without further ado, listed here are the key new development tools in Android 4.4: New how one can create beautiful apps — a brand new full-screen immersive mode lets your app or game use every pixel at the screen to showcase content and capture touch events. a brand new transitions framework makes it easier to animate the states on your UI. Web pages can profit from a totally new implementation of WebView built on Chromium.... Read More »

Google announced the discharge of Google Play Services version 4.0 today, consisting of the Google Mobile Ads SDK and enhancements to Google+, geofencing, and Google Wallet Instant Buy APIs. This time around, they’re dropping support for Froyo. Froyo devices won’t be able to make use of the brand new APIs. “If you’re using AdMob to monetize your apps, the hot Google Mobile Ads SDK in Google Play services helps provide seamless improvements on your users,” says Google in a blog post. “For example, bug fixes get pushed automatically to users without you having to do anything. Inspect the post at the Google Ads Developer Blog for more details.” “The Maps and Geofencing APIs that launched in Google Play services 3.1 has been updated to enhance overall battery efficiency and responsiveness,” Google adds. “You can save power by requesting larger latency values for notifications alerting your app to users entering or exiting geofences, or request that entry alerts are sent only after a user stays within... Read More »

When building apps for Firefox OS, developers use modern Web tools like HTML5, JavaScript and CSS to deliver apps with near native performance on mobile devices. Now Mozilla helps those self same developers bring their Firefox OS apps to other platforms. A while back, Mozilla introduced a brand new technology called Open Web Apps that might help developers bring HTML5 apps to platforms like Android, Windows and OS X. Worthwhile part was that these apps will require no additional development as Mozilla’s tools would automatically convert the HTML5 app right into a native app upon being downloaded to a non-Firefox OS platform. Here’s a video demo that shows how an app built for Firefox OS is automatically converted right into a native app on Android, Windows and Mac OS X. Mozilla notes that privileged apps may even seamlessly install from the Firefox OS marketplace to an Android device. Similar to within the Google Play store, the app will ask for various permissions upon being installed.... Read More »