Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8z-XtqkceNOdVEEX5Caz3SUoAOuDokeLhJ-YYUx6HlIFSX5mATkGaANn8dT5Q3CmyGDN-xd8eRl35JAsJ5K3w-r_euCOlynGHlPDcPy6SB2U8tEla5oU41rfbQNWxeNHMaUjwVXTQ-9U/s1600/Apple+just+launched+its+first+MAJOR+Android+application.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8z-XtqkceNOdVEEX5Caz3SUoAOuDokeLhJ-YYUx6HlIFSX5mATkGaANn8dT5Q3CmyGDN-xd8eRl35JAsJ5K3w-r_euCOlynGHlPDcPy6SB2U8tEla5oU41rfbQNWxeNHMaUjwVXTQ-9U/s640/Apple+just+launched+its+first+MAJOR+Android+application.jpg" title="Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apple has built a native Android app for its new music streaming service, Apple Music</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> APPLE has rolled out its first major Android app – Apple Music – to the UK Google Play Store.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apple has launched a native Android app for its music streaming service, Apple Music.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Android app rolled out to the UK Google Play Store earlier today.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> All the headline features from the iOS Music app have made the transition to Android, including Beats 1 and Connect.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Curated playlists from the Apple Music curation team and branded partners like NME and Rolling Stones have also made the cut.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However music videos and the ability to sign-up for the discounted iCloud Family Plan are not yet available on the Android app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Missing functionality is to be expected – after all, Apple says its first major Android app is still in “beta”.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The US technology giant believes it has fully-embraced the Android eco-system with its Apple Music app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “It’s a full native app, so it will look and feel like an Android app,” said Eddy Cue, Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The menus will look like Android, you know the little hamburger they use on the top. It’ll definitely feel very much like an Android app.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYA7rlxEz2SZY2hzlKUHy6wXRJ-gNhu5LYG3uVfJBARNCOuP3Q081Dj2UalK1_7fxImYy2Bz9sKF-I0eHOP3pK8pYmRvI7xTlRamK6ECkNu3wiPlhoJKm0FxR2NmelxFGLoC-ML-NhdQ8/s1600/Apple+just+launched+its+first+MAJOR+Android+application+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application" border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYA7rlxEz2SZY2hzlKUHy6wXRJ-gNhu5LYG3uVfJBARNCOuP3Q081Dj2UalK1_7fxImYy2Bz9sKF-I0eHOP3pK8pYmRvI7xTlRamK6ECkNu3wiPlhoJKm0FxR2NmelxFGLoC-ML-NhdQ8/s640/Apple+just+launched+its+first+MAJOR+Android+application+2.jpg" title="Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apple has adapted its own design language so that Android users feel at home with Apple Music</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr Cue said the decision to embrace Android’s stylistic quirks was made so that Android customers would feel at home with the Apple app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said: “We wanted customers on Android to naturally be able to use it – what they’ve learned and how they interact is common. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Things as simple as [that] the share icon looks like an Android share icon; the menu structure being where it is; these are things that most Android customers are familiar with. We wanted to make sure that they felt very familiar with Apple Music when they sat down to use it.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apple Music is not the firm’s first Android app – although it is Apple’s biggest bet on the rival mobile operating system to date.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue equates the new Android app to the launch of iTunes on Windows.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We did this with iTunes very early on when we did it for Windows,” he told TechCrunch.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “It’s really important for artists to get as broad an audience as possible, and for us it’s really important because it gives us an opportunity to interact with customers who may not have experienced any of our products before.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The music streaming app’s presence in the Google Play Store will allow existing Apple Music subscribers greater flexibility with their devices.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And with a generous three-month free trial period for new subscribers, Apple Music is likely to entice a fair few new sign-ups, too.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But there is work to be done.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzeRM4CaT081F9AaSkuIvcowo6zN_cTQeoQhL_UgqyCX5viQxCa6idDES3aUN8uzwi_LzDiUhrvoL8nr1xV4BWShIW4fuWgriLZ7jtDMoLAuHEZyMiGmz_9JA3XuIE4aaQU2-IOgFHY8/s1600/Apple+just+launched+its+first+MAJOR+Android+application+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application" border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzeRM4CaT081F9AaSkuIvcowo6zN_cTQeoQhL_UgqyCX5viQxCa6idDES3aUN8uzwi_LzDiUhrvoL8nr1xV4BWShIW4fuWgriLZ7jtDMoLAuHEZyMiGmz_9JA3XuIE4aaQU2-IOgFHY8/s640/Apple+just+launched+its+first+MAJOR+Android+application+3.jpg" title="Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the headline features of the iOS Music App have made the transition to Android</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Android Apple Music App does yet support Chromecast or Chromecast Audio and there’s no sign of any Android Wear functionality either.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apple has also optimised the app to work with smartphones, although a stretched version of the software will work with most Android tablets running version 4.3 or higher.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But Eddy Cue appears open about the improvements which could be made to the Android app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We’ll be getting feedback from customers and seeing where they’d like us to go,” reassured Mr Cue.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “One of the things is that we obviously don’t know a lot of these Android customers and we’re excited to hear what they’d like us to go do.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “This is our first true user app … we’ll see what kind of feedback we get.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We’ve tried really hard to make a great app for Android. We’ll see what customers have to say.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><iframe width="640" height="378" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BNUC6UQ_Qvg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div style="text-align: justify;"> To emphasise this point, Apple has included a prominent feedback button inside the Apple Music app menu to solicit responses from its new Android-based customers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apple Music on Android carries the same £9.99 per month price tag as it does on iOS and Mac.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> iTunes purchases made with your Apple ID will sync across to Android devices, although the latter does not allow customers to purchase any additional music from the iTunes Store.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> iCloud Music Library also syncs between the two rival mobile operating systems.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Android users will get the option to upgrade their free trial to a paid Apple Music subscription at the end of the third month.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Interestingly, upgrading to a paid Apple Music subscription via an in-app Android purchase means Google will get its traditional 30 per cent cut of the fee. </div>

Apple just launched its first MAJOR Android application

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Hush: The free app that SLASHES battery drain on Android smartphones

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtEjzTwgQS9M1isJzHWs4l5FZqlcqEMXWLAaWi_XE96pyqe2y_BYK-8K2pLq0zGyb7as5KkEVJQEyTyuRtLiV_eVAMMvTjT5skzYPsBRVttOjt4tdBNaC2k1_5mdGzwMLm_y4iJ-vn87U/s1600/Hush-+The+free+app+that+SLASHES+battery+drain+on+Android+smartphones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Hush: The free app that SLASHES battery drain on Android smartphones" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtEjzTwgQS9M1isJzHWs4l5FZqlcqEMXWLAaWi_XE96pyqe2y_BYK-8K2pLq0zGyb7as5KkEVJQEyTyuRtLiV_eVAMMvTjT5skzYPsBRVttOjt4tdBNaC2k1_5mdGzwMLm_y4iJ-vn87U/s640/Hush-+The+free+app+that+SLASHES+battery+drain+on+Android+smartphones.jpg" title="Hush: The free app that SLASHES battery drain on Android smartphones" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hush stops power-hungry apps from refreshing in the background </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> UNIVERSITY researchers have released a new tool for Android smartphones which could BOOST your battery life by some 20 per cent.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Researchers from Purdue University have released a new tool for Android handsets which targets battery-draining apps.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Dubbed <strong>Hush</strong>, the free tool stops power-hungry apps checking for updates in the background.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It targets apps you do not use regularly – so should not affect your day-to-day mobile use.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Purdue University researchers claim Android apps account for a whopping <strong>45.9</strong> per cent of all battery usage.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Of that number, a staggering 29 per cent takes place when the smartphone's display is switched off and the phone appears inactive.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Android apps will launch and refresh themselves throughout the day – to ensure they are always up-to-date and ready to use.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This takes place without your knowledge while the phone is locked and the handset is stored in your pocket or bag.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Hush is able to reduce the battery usage taking place while the phone is asleep from 29 per cent to just 16 per cent, the Purdue University team has claimed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> That alone gives the smartphones running Hush a battery boost of some 13 per cent.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Another big drain on battery life takes place when an app refreshes, then does not let the smartphone go back into sleep mode – mostly due to poorly written code.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Prof Charlie Hu, of Purdue University, explained: "Apps wake the phone up periodically during screen-off to do useful things, but then afterward, they should let the phone go back to sleep. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "They are not letting the phone go back to sleep because of software bugs and, specifically, due to the incorrect use of Android power control application programming interfaces called wakelocks."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Hush prevents these apps from keeping the phone active and awake when it shouldn't be.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Android phones running Hush lasted about 15 per cent longer than those without it, the team discovered.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Android tool intelligently identifies the apps rarely used by the smartphone owner – and puts a stop to <em>all</em> background activities.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A total of 2,000 Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4 smartphones were tested during the research. The Purdue University tests took place in as many as 61 countries with involvement from 191 mobile operators.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Prof Hu revealed the team's final goal aim was to double battery life.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "The big picture is that we want to double the battery life for smartphones," he said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "This is going to be a non-trivial journey because much of the battery drain is caused by various apps when the screen is on and also legitimate maintenance functions."</div> <ul> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> Hush can be downloaded for free <a href="https://github.com/hushnymous" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">from GitHub</a></div> </li> </ul>

Hush: The free app that SLASHES battery drain on Android smartphones

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