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November 25, 2024 Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the open source ecosystem, and to lend a monetary hand to those projects we use most at Spotify. This year, we’ve selected five […]
Posted by Neville Sicard-Gregory – Senior Product Manager, Android Studio Looking for a more stable, reliable, and performant Emulator? Download the latest version of Android Studio or ensure your Emulator is up to date in the SDK Manager. We know how critical the stability, reliability, and performance of the Android Emulator is to your everyday […]
Posted by Aditya Pathak – Product Manager, Google Play We know how complex it can be to navigate the ever-changing landscape of commerce and payments, especially when it comes to global tax and regulatory compliance. In just two years, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of new regulations impacting Google Play developers. By […]
Posted by Donovan McMurray – Developer Relations Engineer CameraX, Android’s Jetpack camera library, is getting an exciting update to its Dual Concurrent Camera feature, making it even easier to integrate this feature into your app. This feature allows you to stream from 2 different cameras at the same time. The original version of Dual Concurrent […]
Posted by Chris Assigbe – Developer Relations Engineer and Tom Buckley – Product Manager With stylus input, Android apps on phones, foldables, tablets, and Chromebooks become even more powerful tools for productivity and creativity. While there’s already a lot to think about when designing for large screens – see our full guidance and inspiration gallery […]
Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catching up on podcasts or […] The post Technical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study appeared first on Spotify Engineering. Source link
When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. Through it all, […]
Firefox’s crash reporter is hopefully not something that most users experience often. However, it is still a very important component of Firefox, as it is integral in providing insight into the most visible bugs: those which crash the main process. These bugs offer the worst user experience (since the entire application must close), so fixing […]
We are pleased to share that Puppeteer now supports the next-generation, cross-browser WebDriver BiDi standard. This new protocol makes it easy for web developers to write automated tests that work across multiple browser engines. How Do I Use Puppeteer With Firefox? The WebDriver BiDi protocol is supported starting with Puppeteer v21.6.0. When calling puppeteer.launch pass […]
One of the biggest challenges for any software is to determine how changes impact user experience in the real world. Whether it’s the processing speed of video editing software or the smoothness of a browsing experience, there’s only so much you can tell from testing in a controlled lab environment. While local experiments can provide […]