As we’ve known for some time now, Artwork is replacing Dalvik as the default runtime in the L release of Android. ART pre-compiles apps the first time you install them, so you will be getting quicker app launches every time, correct from the beginning. ART supports 64-little bit processing also. ART is reportedly twice the velocity of Dalvik and will be an Android-supported upgrade for all apps, costing app developers nothing at all to implement. Additionally, there is major improvements to images efficiency for hi-res video gaming and impressive changes to battery needs through system-wide optimizations protected under the umbrella of Task Volta. A default battery pack saver in the L launch will bring the same kinds of extreme power saving options we’ve been seeing on 2014’s flagship gadgets to all Androids on the L release.

Sony is promising some new encounters on KitKat for Xperia owners, like the usual UI and performance optimizations, a tweaked position bar and quick settings, PlayStation 4-esque UI and downloadable UI theme packs to include a whole new layer of cool to your device. There’s also all new versions of the Sony suite of apps: Messaging, MyXperia, Wise Connect, Little apps, TrackID, TrackID Television, Sony Select, Smart Social Surveillance camera and most of Sony’s mass media applications like Walkman, movies and album, which will now use Sony’s cloud integration assistance.

If Instagram is worth $1 billion, what will that mean for your start-up? Quite a complete lot, actually. Nothing you’ve seen prior gets the mobile world seemed like such a ripe market for emerging start-ups as today. Even the New York Moments is speaking about how cashflow and creativity is shifting from the Personal computer to the mobile app globe. And it’s not just Instagram that is raking in the dough, of course. The app Pull Something was bought by Zynga just a few weeks ago for a whopping $200 million.

Samsung breathed fresh air to their camera line with the Galaxy K Zoom, a slimmer, redesigned smartphone camera (with the Galaxy S5 material on the trunk), compared to previous models. Thanks to its retractable zoom lens, it looks quite elegant. With a fresh camcorder UI encompassing 28 camera modes, the camera includes a 10x optical zoom also, a Xenon flash and OIS (optical image stabilization). Among the features in the K Zoom is Pro Suggest which suggests five filters based on your environment and the light. There may also be a higher color gamut than the regular sRGB display and a much better image quality than the Galaxy S4 Zoom. Videos will shoot at 60 fps in Full HD.

If you’ve been following the gaming news at all, you understand that the largest discharge of the week may be the newest iteration of Ubisoft’s sandbox shooter Far Cry. The 4th game moves the action to the Himalayan nation of “I Can’t Believe IT ISN’T Tibet,” and jobs you with leading a ragtag army of rebels against an tyrannical and oppressive dictator. (Seriously, still not Tibet.) Ubisoft can’t make a big-budget video game without releasing a mobile counterpart, so say hello to Significantly Cry 4 Arena Master.

The majority of the AOSP-based custom launchers operate in the same way roughly, but Action Launcher has always been different. Right from the beginning it offered cool ways to manage your apps and widgets, and it just got better as time passes. That app was based on the Jelly Bean-era Google android launcher, and it had been period for an revise, according to programmer Chris Lacy. Action Launcher 3 is definitely a comprehensive rewrite of Actions Launcher that brings with it fresh features, but also drops a few (at least for the present time). Let’s take a look at the new Action Launcher.

AutoDash is a launcher application that’s designed particularly to displace your car’s dusty dashboard. The idea isn’t a fresh one: it assigns specific zones of the screen with large finger-friendly control keys for easy selection (which I suppose is better than looking down at a telephone). The app comes from Automatic, the people who make that OBD device, and it integrates with it if you happen to possess one. It offers some interesting features, just like the ability to trigger relevant IFTTT quality recipes.