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Received — 2023年5月16日 ガジェット系

Google Play Console、アプリ内アイテムの適切な販売価格を調べるA/Bテスト提供へ

著者: nagazou
2023年5月16日 06:05
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Google Play Console では今後数週間のうちに、アプリ内アイテムの適切な販売価格を調べるための A/B テストが実施可能になるそうだ (Android Developers Blog の記事Android Police の記事)。

市場ごとの購買力に合わせた価格の調整は広く行われており、適正な価格設定は売り上げ増加につながる。A/B テストは Play Console の価格実験セクションから数分で設定でき、価格による売り上げの変化を統計的に確認できる。十分なデータが集まると統計的な有意差が表示されるので、勝利した価格を新しい価格として設定すれば完了とのことだ。

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Received — 2023年5月15日 ガジェット系
Received — 2023年5月14日 ガジェット系

Android 14 Beta 2 リリース、ベータプログラムが Pixel 以外でも利用可能に

著者: headless
2023年5月14日 12:22
Google は 10 日、次期 Android 14 の 2 番目のベータ版となる Android 14 Beta 2 をリリースした (Android Developers Blog の記事)。

Beta 2 ではカメラやメディア、プライバシーやセキュリティ、システム UI、開発者の生産性などの強化が含まれており、Google Pixel 以外のパートナーブランド製品の一部でも初めてベータプログラムが利用可能となっている。今回 Android 14 Beta が利用可能となったのは、iQOO・Lenovo・Nothing・OnePlus・OPPO・realme・TECNO・vivo・Xiaomi の 9 ブランドだ。

Beta 2 でのカメラ機能の強化点としては、Ultra HDR 画像形式への対応やアプリが画像処理により長い時間を利用可能にする Camera Extensions API の強化、クロップ処理によるセンサー内ズーム対応が挙げられている。メディア機能ではロスレス USB オーディオに対応し、グラフィック機能も強化されたという。

Beta 2 は 6 月のプラットフォーム安定性の一つ前の段階となり、より多くのユーザーが試し始めると予想される。そのため、アプリ開発者は現在提供しているアプリの互換性やオプトインになった挙動の変化をテストし、新APIを試用することが推奨される。サポートされる Pixel デバイスではベータプログラムのほかにシステムイメージも提供されており、Android Emulator で動作を試すことも可能だ。テストには Canary 版提供が始まった Android Studio Hedgehog の利用が推奨されている。

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Received — 2023年5月13日 ガジェット系

Bluetooth Tags For Android's 3 Billion-Strong Tracking Network Are Here

著者: BeauHD
2023年5月13日 09:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After the release of Apple's AirTags, Google suddenly has interest in the Bluetooth tracker market. The company has already quietly rolled out what must be the world's largest Bluetooth tracking network via Android's 3 billion active devices, and now trackers are starting to plug in to that network. Google is taking the ecosystem approach and letting various companies plug in to the Android Bluetooth tracking network, which has the very derivative name of "Find My Device." While these Bluetooth trackers are great for finding your lost car keys on a messy desk, they can also work as worldwide GPS trackers and locate items much farther away, even though they don't have GPS. The IDs of Bluetooth devices are public, so Tile started this whole idea of crowdsourced Bluetooth tracker location, called the "Tile Network." Every phone with the Tile app installed scans Bluetooth devices in the background and, using the phone GPS, uploads their last seen location to the cloud. This location data is only available to the person who owns the Tile, but every Tile user works to scan the environment and upload any Tiles the app can see. [...] Now, third-party Bluetooth trackers for Android's network are starting to arrive. The two companies that have announced products are Chipolo and Pebblebee, both of which seem to be cloning the Tile line of products. Both offer normal keychain tracker tags and slim credit card format trackers. The worst habits of Tile include making completely disposable products because the batteries can't be changed, but it looks like our clones have mostly avoided that. All of Pebblebee's Find My Device products are rechargeable, which is great, while the Chipolo keychain tracker has a replaceable CR2032 battery. Only the Chipolo wallet tracker is disposable (boo!). All these tags will show up in the Find My Device app, right alongside your Android phones, headphones, and whatever else you have that plugs in to the network. They also have a speaker, like normal, so you can make them ring when you're near them. Both sets of products are up for preorder now.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Received — 2023年5月12日 ガジェット系

大画面&迫力あるサウンドをカンタンに! スポーツ鑑賞もイケるスマートプロジェクター『XGIMI MoGo 2 Pro』

2023年5月12日 21:30
中国・深センで2013年に設立され、日本・米国・欧州などに加えて豪州・韓国などの市場にも参入しているスマートプロジェクターブランド『XGIMI(エクスジミー)』。2022年には日本を含む海外市場での売上は前年比82.04%増の154億円とグローバル展開が...続きを読む

Android 14 Will Add More Customization To Your Home and Lock Screens

著者: BeauHD
2023年5月12日 08:20
At Google I/O on Wednesday, VP of Engineering at Android David Burke new customization features coming to Android 14 later this year. Engadget reports: The tools build on the Material You design system Google introduced in 2021 by allowing users to create a custom wallpaper by picking a few of their favorite emojis. One of the new tools allows you to add up to 14 emojis to a single wallpaper. You can then pick a pattern and a color to bring everything together. Once the wallpaper is on your home screen, the characters will react when you tap on them. If you want something more sentimental, there's a separate option to create "Cinematic" wallpapers. The feature uses on-device neural networks to animate your favorite photos. Once the photo is on your home screen, tilting your device will cause it to move, giving the image more depth and life than it would have had you not used the new feature. Burke said both cinematic and emoji wallpapers would arrive on Pixel devices next month. Come the fall, Google will also introduce a built-in AI image generator within Android's customization menu. You can use the tool to create wallpapers you can't find online. It comes with pre-populated prompts you can tweak to make the process of guiding the AI easier. Once you add an AI wallpaper to your home screen, Android's Material You system will automatically color-match all the user interface elements, including any app icons, so they don't clash with one another. Android 14 will further augment those tools with the addition of new clocks and shortcuts you can add to your lock screen. And if colors aren't your thing, Google also plans to add a new monochromatic theme for those who prefer a more understated look. At I/O, Burke also previewed Magic Compose, a Messages feature that will use Google's generative AI technology to write texts for you. The tool comes with multiple style settings you can use to give your messages a different flair. Google plans to beta test Magic Compose this summer. Separately, Google said after the keynote that Android 14 will add support for Ultra HDR, allowing for photos that feature more vivid colors and detailed shadows.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Received — 2023年5月11日 ガジェット系

Google Launches an AI Coding Bot For Android Developers

著者: BeauHD
2023年5月11日 22:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is launching a new AI-powered coding bot for Android developers. During its I/O event on Wednesday, Google announced that the tool, called Studio Bot, will help developers build apps by generating code, fixing errors, and answering questions about Android. According to Google, the bot is built on Codey, the company's new foundational coding model that stems from its updated PaLM 2 large language model (LLM). Studio Bot supports both the Kotlin and Java programming languages and will live directly in the toolbar on Android Studio. There, developers can get quick answers to their questions or even have the bot debug a portion of their code. While Google notes that developers don't need to share their source code with Google in order to use Studio Bot, the company will receive data on the conversations they have with the tool. Google says the bot is still in "very early days" but that it will continue training it to improve its answers. It's also currently only available to developers in the US for now via the Canary channel, and there's no word on when it will see a global launch.

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「Google Pixel 7a」レビュー お手頃価格で充実したカメラとPixelの最新機能が使えるスマートフォン

著者: shnsk
2023年5月11日 17:00
Googleが5月11日に発売した新スマートフォン「Pixel 7a」のレビューをお届けします。6万2700円(税込)と、お手頃価格で提供されるPixel Aシリーズのスマートフォン新モデルですが、2022年10月に発売された「Pixel 7」と同じ独自...続きを読む

Google's New Pixel Tablet Is a $500 Slate For the Home

著者: BeauHD
2023年5月11日 11:02
Google has announced the Pixel Tablet after teasing it during last year's Google I/O conference. The Verge reports: The Pixel Tablet is designed from the ground up to be good at what people typically use tablets for: watching video or playing games in the comfort of their own home. It is not, however, making any statements about the future of computing. The looks of the Pixel Tablet are relatively generic. It has an 11-inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display, even bezels all around, and a matte back. It comes in three colors: white, dark green, and light pink, with the dark green model featuring a black bezel. Though it looks like plastic from a distance, the Pixel Tablet has an aluminum frame with a nanotexture coating, not unlike what Google did with the Pixel 5 smartphone. Bundled in the box with the Pixel Tablet is a magnetic speaker dock. This serves multiple purposes and is meant to prevent the dreaded "dead tablet in a drawer" syndrome: it's a place to store the Pixel Tablet when it's not in use; it charges the battery; and it has a louder, fuller speaker better suited for communal listening than the speakers that are built into the tablet. If you're playing music or watching a video on the tablet when you put it on the dock, it will seamlessly transfer the audio to the dock's speaker. Pull the tablet off the dock while something is playing, and it will instantly switch to the tablet's speakers. When mounted on the speaker dock, the Pixel Tablet looks an awful lot like the Nest Hub Max, a $250 smart display that Google released back in 2019. But make no mistake, the Pixel Tablet is an Android tablet and not a smart display -- it runs completely different software and has different capabilities compared to the Nest Hub. That said, when the tablet is docked on the speaker, it can show a slideshow of images from your Google Photos albums just like the Nest Hub. It also has a quick access button to the Google Home app so you can control smart home devices, and it can accept voice commands from a distance for hands-free Google Assistant queries. The lock screen won't show any personal information like notifications -- for that, you'll have to unlock the tablet to access the accounts that are set up on it. The $499 slab is available for preorder starting today, and will begin shipping on June 20th.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Googleが「Tensor G2」チップ搭載のPixelデバイス3製品「Pixel 7a」「Pixel Fold」「Pixel Tablet」を発表

著者: shnsk
2023年5月11日 09:30
Googleは5月10日(米国時間)に開催された開発者向け会議「Google I/O 2023」で、Pixelブランドのスマートフォン「Pixel 7a」、フォルダブル(折りたたみ)スマートフォン「Pixel Fold」、タブレット「Pixel Tabl...続きを読む
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