Google releases developers kit defining Ara phone platform
(Phys.org) —"The smartphone is one of the most empowering and intimate objects in our lives. Yet most of us have little say in how the device is made, what it does, and how it looks. And 5 billion of us don't have one. What if you could make thoughtful choices about exactly what your phone does, and use it as a creative canvas to tell your own story?" That has been the enticing question posed by Project Ara, leaving developers and other creatives eager for further developments ever since Project Ara stopped out on stage in 2013 as part of Motorola. In 2014, Project Ara remains in Google's hands and is hardly about to gather any dust. Google on Wednesday announced Project Ara's first Module Developers Kit (MDK). Google said "The MDK is a free and open platform specification and reference implementation that contains everything you need to develop an...