When Apple released its Game Center back when iOS 4 debuted, the company single-handedly provided what many iOS gamers wanted for years: a unified multiplayer service. It’s been two years since Game Center was released, and it looks like Android may be working on a similar service according to analyzed code from Google’s MyGlass application.
According to Android Police who first uncovered this bit of code within Google’s MyGlass app, a future Android update may include tools to give game developers the power to easily implement multiplayer features in their games including real-time and turn-based gameplay, in-game chat, achievements, leaderboards and the ability to invite other players into your game. We think it should go without saying such an update would become a much welcomed feature as it wouldn’t require app developers to create their own online network for their games, such as Gameloft’s Gameloft LIVE! service. (more…)
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You can more or less say that the Android mobile operating system has jumped by leaps and bounds ever since it appeared on the scene a few years ago, and with its latest iteration in the form of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, you can say that it has the iOS from Apple on the backpedal in some aspects. Whispers abound that the next version of the Android operating system will be given the nickname “Key Lime Pie”, in keeping to the tradition that each successive name of a new version of the Android platform will take on the form of a dessert, as well as a corresponding step to the next letter in the alphabet.
Sound the alarms! Man the battle stations! Word has gotten out that Google has already uploaded a spanking new Linux 3.8 kernel repository, and in this latest edition, it is said to come with features such as “Samsung Exynos DRM advancements, open-source NVIDIA Tegra driver inclusion and lowered RAM usage.”
Google’s naming convention for their Android mobile operating system has stuck to desserts that follow the alphabetical order, and just last December, it seems that the Android Key Lime Pie name has been confirmed as the next Android version. Well, here is another “confirmation” of sorts as the world continues to wait for what comes after Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was introduced at Google I/O in June last year. Apparently, a bunch of leaked Qualcomm roadmaps not only mentioned a particular “K-release” of Android, but it also spelt out the “
Prior to Android 4.2’s release, many folks were speculating that this could very well be known as Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie to keep up with tradition that required a sweet dessert name to be associated with the next major release of an Android operating system update. Well, unfortunately for pundits and everyone else looking on in interest, version 4.2 of Android retained the Jelly Bean moniker, and hence it is most likely that Android 5.0 will be the candidate to be dubbed Key Lime Pie. The thing is, it can be pretty hard to get a confirmation of that, but Manu Cornet, a Google employee, could have inadvertently made it known to the world in a comic that he posted on his Google+ account, showing off the evolutionary path that the Android green robot is on, shaped in the same way of a human from an ape till today.
