During the Google I/O conference yesterday, Google revealed their brand new Android L Developer Preview. This is actually the FIRST time Google is releasing a developer preview, so it’s a pretty big deal.  Not only does Android L have a new enhanced look, but it also has deeper ties to the web making it more user friendly. 

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We have hit the half way point of the year, so it seemed a good time to take a look at some interesting trends we have seen so far in 2014. Hopefully you will recognise the majority of these, and will have touched them in your work at some point. Add a comment below with your thoughts.

1. Flat Design
Our first trend affects designers, UX/UI professionals, and developers alike. All of these people will have struggled…

HTML5, in one form or another, has been with us since 2004. In 2009 the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) joined forces to work on the standard, with WHATWG focusing on the ‘living standard’ (something that is never complete, and constantly improved) and W3C responsible for the formal HTML5 specification (effectively the reference standard).…

Since the Microsoft BUILD developer conference in April, there have been a raft of announcements and product updates concerning the company's developer tools and services. The official release of Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013 is the latest of these, and will be particularly welcome news to those building desktop and mobile apps for the Windows ecosystem.

New features and improvements

Update 2 brings with it a…