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The right app rewards to boost motivation – Google Play Apps & Games – Medium

Boost motivation with the right app rewards

Learn more here: https://goo.gl/xjNZaw

In the follow up post exploring psychology and gamification, Jeni Fisher from the Google Play team takes a closer look at what motivation is, and shares concrete strategies for boosting user engagement with your app through rewards.

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明慧要闻: Missouri House of Representatives Passes Resolution Condemning China's Organ Harvesting Crimes

April 28, 2017 | By a Minghui correspondent in Missouri

(Minghui.org) On April 25, 2017 the Missouri House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 7 condemning forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong and other prisoners of conscience and urging further action to stop the atrocities.

“The resolution is about trying to bring awareness to prevent a terrible injustice to humanity,” said State Representative Lynn Morris, R-Ozark, the sponsor of HCR 7, on the House floor.

State Representative Lynn Morris (3rd from the right) and State Senator Jill Schupp (3rd from the left) with Missouri Falun Gong practitioners.

Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, spoke on the floor in support of HCR 7, “It's definitely a human rights violation that more people need to be made aware of. So I would encourage everyone to support HCR 7 and let's send a message to everyone.”

The resolution was met with overwhelming bipartisan support and a final vote of 149-1.

A strikingly poignant moment arose during the debate when Rep. Steve Cookson, R-Poplar Bluff, said to the sponsor, “I just want to say that as a person who needs an organ, that I am in full support of your resolution. It is the right thing to do, and thank you for bringing it forward. I support it wholeheartedly.”

Peaceful Group the Target of Forced Organ Harvesting

Rep. Dean Dorhman, R-La Monte, pointed out during the debate, “The resolution itself basically concerns Falun Gong, which is a traditional group, with a lot of Chinese tradition involved, some of it religious, and they're looked on as 'enemies of the state.' They're a 'political problem' for the Chinese Communist Party.”

“Only because the Communist Party makes it that way,” sponsor Rep. Morris further clarified. “Falun Gong is a group that is larger than the Communist Party itself. I think that's where the threatening part is. These people intend no harm to the Communist Party, and they are being persecuted.”

Rep. Randy Dunn, D-Kansas City, added, “This is an issue where many people who practice essentially an exercise are persecuted and find themselves having their organs ripped from their bodies because of their practice.”

In response to a question as to whether the organs are harvested after the execution of a prisoner, Rep. Morris explained, “In general, they remove the organs while the people are alive. They don't give them any kind of anesthetics because they want blood flow through all the organs at the time that they capture the organ.”

Rep. Morris said the resolution is to help warn Missouri citizens against organ tourism to China, saying, [if one goes there], “You're probably going to be an accomplice of murder. And the organ that you're getting may be from a murdered person, not someone who volunteered their organ.”

Torture Victims Testify at House Committee Hearing

Falun Gong supporters and victims of the persecution in China were invited to testify at the Homeland Security Committee hearing, the first of two committee hearings for HCR 7, on February 23. One of the witnesses, biology researcher Dr. Sa Geng, told the committee how he suffered unlawful arrest in China, torture, and the loss of his wife to the brutal persecution of Falun Gong, before escaping to the U.S.

Dr. Sa Geng (left) shares his witness testimony at the Homeland Security Committee for HCR 7 on February 23.

Documentary on Organ Harvesting Screened at State Capitol

A screening of the documentary “Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade” held at the Missouri State Capitol at the beginning of session in January helped build support and momentum for HCR 7. Rep. Morris attended along with a number of other representatives and staff members. Also in attendance was State Senator Jill Schupp, who sponsored Senate Resolution No. 8, a mirror of HCR 7.

Screening of Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade at the Missouri State Capitol for Human Trafficking Awareness Day on January 11, 2017.

“Every State Should Do Something”

Now that HCR 7 passed in the House, as a concurrent resolution, it must also pass through Senate committee and Senate floor vote before the resolution is finalized.

Rep. Morris said he hopes the resolution will inspire similar actions around the country and worldwide. “This is such an important worldwide issue, such tragedy of mankind that I think every state should be alerted and every state should be doing something about this.”

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Identifying Intrusive Mobile Apps using Peer Group Analysis

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Identifying Intrusive Mobile Apps

Read our blog post here: https://goo.gl/XtPzUX

Mobile apps entertain and assist us, make it easy to communicate with friends and family, and provide tools ranging from maps to electronic wallets. But these apps could also seek more device information than they need to do their job, such as personal data and sensor data from components, like cameras and GPS trackers.

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Burak Bağdatlı: Would you say that Instagram asking for access to all my photos is normal behavior? I bet your algorithm would given that access photos and files is such an abundantly used permission on android.

However, why can I not share photos from Google Photos to Instagram to post it there? Why is access to all photos and files a permission asked and provided so nonchalantly? What we really need is finer controls about apps and their own folders and photo galleries. Let's not share all files with all apps just because an app needs to write a simple file somewhere.

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Google Play Indie Games Festival submission form

Google Play Indie Games Festival is coming to San Francisco!

Join us on September 23rd for the Google Play Indie Games Festival in downtown San Francisco. If you’re a developer based in the US or Canada, submit your game for a chance to demo your game at the event and compete to be one of three overall winners! Submissions are open through August 6th.

Submit your game now: https://goo.gl/vftsn5

#playindie #googleplay #androiddev

johnson muthungu: nice

johnson muthungu: sasa hii inasema nini kwli

Kiki Jewell: My daughter is getting interested in becoming a game developer. She loved the movies Indie Game: The Movie, and it's sequel. She's in Girls Make Games camp for her second year. She's 11yo.

Is this an event she could attend? I think it would be a great experience for her to see real adults competing -- as her team did -- for best game. (She would attend as a game player, not developer...yet. :) )

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Five tips to improve your games-as-a-service monetization

Improve your revenue without driving players away

Learn more: https://goo.gl/54WgxM

Mobile game developers often ask, how do you design and improve monetization without turning players off? In this guest blog post by Moonlit (Google Play Games) and Tammy (Kongregate), you will learn 5 practical insights from their work to improve your game earnings.

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Android Experiments - Vinyl Cast by Allen Schober

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Vinyl Cast - an Android experiment that wirelessly streams the audio of a vinyl record player to Chromecast-enabled devices while also detecting and displaying track information on the screen.

https://www.androidexperiments.com/experiment/vinyl-cast

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Android Things Hackster Community

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We've partnered with +Hackster.io to create a community where aspiring IoT developers can showcase their Android Things projects and get inspired by the work of others. To kick things off, we will be co-hosting a live webinar titled Bootstrapping IoT Products with Android Things. See the blog post https://goo.gl/6FvYxZ for more information, and join the discussion in our Google+ community at https://g.co/iotdev. #AndroidThings

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What's up with the new Architecture Component ViewModel? Find out in the first of a series of blog posts about ViewModels. The post this week is an introduction to ViewModels and the ViewModel lifecycle with a simple practical example: https://goo.gl/UNe9fg

There'll be deeper ViewModel dives to come, so let us know your ViewModel and Architecture Component related questions!

ViewModels : A Simple Example – Google Developers – Medium

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Android Experiments - Shortrain by Nir Hartmann & Ido Hartmann

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SHORTRAIN by @nirhart allows you to construct a railway on your homescreen and run a train across the homescreen icons.

www.androidexperiments.com/experiment/shortrain

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Android Things Console developer preview

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Today we are launching a preview of the Android Things Console. This console allows developers to manage the software running on their fleet of Android Things IoT devices, including creating factory images, as well as updating the operating system and developer-provided APKs. Devices need to run a system image downloaded via the Android Things Console in order to receive future updates, such as the upcoming Developer Preview 5. Google provides all of the infrastructure for over-the-air (OTA) updates, so developers can focus on their specific application and not have to build their own implementation – getting their IoT devices to enter the market faster and more securely than before. See the blog post https://goo.gl/1hCaHe for more information, try the console at https://partner.android.com/things/console, and join the discussion in our Google+ community at https://g.co/iotdev. #AndroidThings

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Lessons learned while converting to Kotlin with Android Studio

Just converted your app to Kotlin? Here are some tips to improve your code!

Read the blog post here: https://goo.gl/b61nmJ

Lessons learned while converting to Kotlin with Android Studio