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The title seemed like it's reverse. Didn't it? haha Yes, I'm not talking about running Android apps in Windows, I'm talking about running Windows x86 apps in your Android!!! Developers from CodeWeavers have just released version 3.0 of the Wine compatibility layer for Linux-based systems, which can now be built into an APK package and installed on your Android device. Earlier it could power Chromebooks to do the same. Wine 3.0 release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes. You can get the full documentation here . Image source :Android Police Although you’ll need an x86 Android device to take full advantage of it. Wine does support ARM devices, but you can only use programs that were ported to Windows RT. You can find a few examples here. The Wine project is working on using QEMU to emulate x86 CPU instructions on ARM, but that’s not complete yet. XDA Developers forum has a list of such apps that can be run full-fledge...

Finally this year a company that is far less popular in comparison to big tech behemoths like Apple and Samsung made them bite the dust. Vivo showed 'em all! This is the phone, the first one to have a fingerprint sensor integrated into the display. The first phone to have the fingerprint sensor integrated into the display so it's right in this area down here which is available to use as you would with any other smartphone display but when you lock the phone and you want to unlock it, it turns into a fingerprint sensor. It works exactly like the capacitive fingerprint sensor you might have seen on Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S or whatever. But the difference is the advantage now i.e. you have these ultra thin bezels top and bottom on the phone but you still have the fingerprint sensors right at the front where it used to be, and where for a lot of people, it should be if you have no bezels we have nowhere to put it. So a lot of companies have to come up with compro...

There are two ways to integrate with WhatsApp: -Through a custom URL scheme -Through Android's intent system Custom URL Scheme: WhatsApp provides a custom URL scheme to interact with WhatsApp: If you have a website and want to open a WhatsApp chat with a pre-filled message, you can use our custom URL scheme to do so. Opening whatsapp://send?text= followed by the text to send, will open WhatsApp, allow the user to choose a contact, and pre-fill the input field with the specified text. Here is an example of how to write this on your website: Hello, world! Android intent system: Like most social apps on Android, WhatsApp listens to intents to share media and text. Simply create an intent to share text, for example, and WhatsApp will be displayed by the system picker: Intent sendIntent = new Intent(); sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send."); sendIntent.setType("text/plain"); ...

On November last year, Facebook killed Messenger Day and consolidated it with Facebook as Stories, the 24-hour ephemeral posts in either Facebook or Messenger appeared in both apps synced with each other. And after a while Instagram rolled out a “cross-post to Facebook Stories” feature that populated to Messenger too, though there was no current plan to allow Facebook Stories to be pushed to Instagram. Now Facebook is looking at how to bring WhatsApp into the fold. Facebook could soon offer users an option to post the same Story to three networks that are all owned by the tech giant. Instagram recently confirmed the testing of a tool to cross-post Stories as a WhatsApp status. After users in Brazil spotted the new option, Instagram confirmed to Tech Crunch that the feature is currently in testing. Like the option to post an Instagram Story to Facebook Stories, the tested tool would allow Stories to also post to WhatsApp, where they would live as a status. While...

Dual cameras are arguably one of the biggest smartphone trends in 2017 we've seen them in every phone from the best flagships all the way down to the entry-level smartphones. And why do we want them well just like having two eyes? Having two different lenses allows your smartphone to perceive depth. We can't fit DSLR optics into a seven millimeter body so therefore having two cameras allows for an artificially created but nonetheless impressive looking blurring off the background.  Dual cameras If we take a look at phones like the Galaxy Note 8 the Huawei p10 with their dual cameras, I wouldn't part with the feature for anything it's amazing it can turn you're pretty amateur photography into something that really looks like it was taken with a crew and a giant camera five times the size. And as a matter of fact, one of the few improvements from the Galaxy S8 plus to the Galaxy Note 8 is that dual camera and the change is so significant that for a lot of ...