Show Notes

* Android News

* Android Distribution numbers updated. Oreo is at 12.1%, Nougat at 30.8%, Marshmallow at 23.5%, Lollipop at 20.4%

* Proposed API would bring notification badges to Android and web apps on Chromebooks

* Google’s support library for developers, AndroidX, is available on AOSP.

* Android Dev Summit in Mountainview November 7-8

* Android has created more choice, not less

* App News

* You can now video call people on Duo using Google Assistant

* Chromebooks to support continued reading from Chrome tabs opened on Android.

* In Other News

* C64 Mini retro gaming console coming to North America in October

* Here’s to Five Years of Chromecast

* A Milestone for Chrome Security: marking HTTP as ‘not secure’

* Youtube TV needs a big revenue ad boost to become profitable

* Best alternatives to Project Fi

* Google’s employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017.

* Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft involved in the Data Transfer Project to make switching seamless.