Thanks to Google Play Services, Android smartphones can recognize some accessories that need to be setup in the area such as Chromecasts, Wear OS watches, and more. Recently, though, Android devices have picked up the ability to get setup notification…
Rugged Android smartphones are not all that common, but there are a few brands that carry the flag for durable tech. The Bullitt Group-built Caterpillar Cat S62 Pro is one such rugged device, and it comes with some interesting tech that you probably w…
On Chrome OS today, you can easily connect your Android phone to your Chromebook for things like text/RCS messages, automatic Wi-Fi hotspot, and Smart Lock, all part of Google’s “Better Together” initiative. Now Chrome OS is getting …
Good, smooth animations can make an app or operating system feel polished and just overall more pleasant to use. In an effort to help developers build those animations, Google has added a Motion Editor in Android Studio.
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Google has open-sourced their AI model for converting sequences of natural language instructions to actions in a mobile device UI. The model is based on the Transformer deep-learning architecture and achieves 70% accuracy on a new benchmark dataset cre…
At the start of the year, Google Play announced the 2020 Indie Games Festival for European, Japanese, and South Korean developers. The nine winning Android apps were announced today, along with the runner-ups.
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Thanks to the tweaks made to notifications in Android over the past few years, more and more quick functionality has been added to help save time and effort. It looks like that has expanded as you can set reminders within Google Keep from notification…
In this week’s top stories: Samsung opens pre-orders for the Galaxy Note 20, Oppo teases their next smartwatch built on Google’s Wear OS, AT&T sends upgrade warning to its customers entirely too early, and more.
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For the past several years, Google has been working on a phone model-esque OS for cars that automakers can customize. The Polestar 2, which will be the first vehicle with Android Automotive, is set to launch soon, and the initial app lineup has been r…
As the developer of Android, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Google has access to usage stats on how people use the OS. A new report provides some insight into the kind of information that it has access to.
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