Friday, April 19, 2013

Tech Article 4/19

Android Powers Google Glass

Google is going to use its Android operating system for its Glass devices, Chief Executive Larry Page confirmed yesterday. "Obviously Glass runs on Android," Page said toward the end of the conference call reporting Google's strong first-quarter financial results. Fragmentophobes might freak out that Android is being stretched to yet another device: it's hard enough for programmers to keep up with the diversity in screen size, processor power, and operating system version. But Google has a separate Glass application programming interface (API) called Mirror, meaning that programmers won't simply be writing Android apps to tap into its abilities.

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