Friday, April 3, 2015

Software : Chrome users can now run 1.3 million Android apps

Software : Chrome users can now run 1.3 million Android apps

Chrome users can now run 1.3 million Android apps

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Chrome users can now run 1.3 million Android apps

Google might have made it possible to launch Android apps on almost any device as part of the latest developer preview of its App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) project.

The new features make it so that ARC can run on any desktop OS that has the Chrome browser installed, and opens up the ability to launch Android apps on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Chrome OS, according to Ars Technica.

Google's updated ARC project also allows developers to run their app on ARC via a new Chrome app packager, and the only platform excluded is of course iOS.

Originally Google ARC was designed to let Android apps run on Chrome OS. However, shortly after it was launched, a hack found the full potential of the project to run on any machine, and that has now been added as a full feature.

ARC is able to run Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS through a Native Client (NaCL), which is a sandboxing technology that lets Chrome apps run at close to native speeds and fully harness a machine's CPU and GPU.

Is it that easy?

Of course it isn't as easy as that and developers will need to play around with the ARC Welder and submit the app to the Chrome Web Store before it can actually run.

What ARC and the NaCL do is champion Google's strategy to make sure that developers write more apps for the Android ecosystem and they then work on more devices than ever - never a bad thing from a consumer point of view.

Office Lens transforms your iPhone, Android phone into a scanner

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Office Lens transforms your iPhone, Android phone into a scanner

After an initial popular launch of Office Lens for the Windows Phone platform, Microsoft is now mobile scanner app for iPhone and Android smartphones. The app turns your smartphone into a convenient, portable scanner where you can convert physical documents into digital files.

"Use it to take pictures of receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards or sticky notes - then let Office Lens crop, enhance and save to OneNote," Microsoft said in a statement. "Just like that - all the scanned images you capture from Office Lens are accessible on all your devices."

YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzZ3WVhgi5w

The simplicity of Office Lens is that it automatically recognizes the corners of a document, and then the software will crop, enhance, and clean up the scanned image. This algorithm and automatic adjustments allow you to take a photo of a whiteboard or a document at an angle, and Office Lens will give you a perfect scan every time.

Thanks to optical character recognition (OCR), there are other simple integrations depending on the content type.

For example, a scan of a business card will automatically parse the card and generate contacts with the appropriate name, number, email address, and address fields.

Paper document scans can be converted into Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and PDF files, and users can easily edit or reformat the scans.

Benefits of analog to digital conversion

Scans can also be uploaded to OneNote and to Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage.

With Office Lens, enterprise customers benefit in that they no longer need to choose to carry a digital tablet with a digital stylus or pen to capture digital notes.

With Office Lens, users will have the convenience of regular pen and paper, and they can digitize their notes easily with their phones. Traditional pen and paper is not only more readily accessible - in case you forget your Surface Pro 3 or Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 - but it also feels more natural and comfortable than gliding the plastic nib of a digital pen over a glass screen.

Availability

Office Lens is now available for iPhone users through the App Store as a free download. The app is also available in preview for Android users. Android users wishing to join the preview can join the Google+ group and sign up to be a beta tester.

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