Android 15 will learn to compress installed applications significantly. The new App Archiving feature was originally discovered in Android 15 last month, and now there are details and even a video with an example of how this feature works. Archiving the application will significantly reduce the amount of memory occupied...
Google's Find My Device system has its limitations, especially when the device is turned off. With Android 15, Google aims to solve this problem by introducing a new Powered Off Finding API. According to Android Police, this API can help detect devices even when they are turned off. Essentially, the...
CIRP analysts assessed the popularity of different iPhone models among those who switch to these smartphones from Android-based devices. In general, there are about 10-15% of such users among iPhone buyers, and on average they do not tend to buy the most expensive and modern Apple models. At the end...
Google has released the first developer preview of Android 15, and it’s available to software creators starting today. The first public beta of Android 15, the stable beta will be released in June, and the release will take place around September. As The Verge reports, Android 15 introduces a number...
Google has begun distributing a new Google Photos feature called Photo Stack to devices running the Android operating system. Initially, the innovation debuted at the end of 2023 on iOS. The Photo Stack feature groups similar photos together to organize a user’s photo feed. However, this combination of files does...
Google has decided to make a unified data exchange function between Android devices by teaming up with Samsung. As a result, if since 2020 Google has been promoting its Nearby Share feature, now it has replaced it with Quick Share, which was developed and used by Samsung for a long...
Microsoft has released its chatbot Copilot as a standalone application for Android. The application is free, and you don’t even need to have a Microsoft account to work with it. Of course, in the case of Windows, the company calls Copilot artificial intelligence integrated into the OS. In the case...
Google is preparing to launch a very useful update for the Google Play online application store. We are talking about the possibility of remotely deleting applications. The innovation was already noticed in the November Google Play Store update number 38.3, but it does not yet work in real life. When...
Google has begun making final preparations for the complete shutdown of Google Play Movies & TV in January 2024. The company has published detailed instructions for users of Android TV-based TVs and set-top boxes so that they do not lose access to already purchased content . Photo: Jonas Leupe /...
While Samsung is currently updating many Galaxy phones to One UI 6.0 without issue, Google Play system updates are not getting through. According to the thematic resource Galaxy Club, due to a failure of the Google Play system update, various Samsung Galaxy models, including S20, S22, S23, Z Fold 5,...
The young company Beeper has introduced the Beeper Mini application, which allows Android owners to exchange messages with iPhone owners via iMessage. A previous attempt to bring iMessage support to Android only lasted a few days. However, Beeper Mini is now working, doing its job correctly, and is available for...
It looks like Google wants to experiment again with the search bar at the bottom of the screen on Android smartphones. In the latest version of Google software 14.48.26.29.arm64, the search bar is at the bottom of the screen. By default this feature is disabled, but it can be activated...
Google Cast is currently one of the best protocols for streaming media content and is built into Android, Android TV/Google TV, and is also supported by a number of soundbars and speakers. However, its controls weren’t integrated with Android as well as they should have been. Now the situation has...
Google is preparing to soon reduce support for its proprietary Google Calendar calendar on devices with the Android operating system. Enthusiasts have discovered that the application will soon lose support for the Android Nougat operating system and earlier versions. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkA recent update to Google Calendar...
Smartphone users who received the update to Android 14 were faced with the absence of a familiar and very popular function. Previously, long-pressing the pupil on the home screen would quickly display app notifications, but in Android 14, long-pressing the icon no longer displays notifications. This feature of Android 14...
The other day, a rather curious event happened on the market quite quietly. Nothing has introduced the Nothing Chats application, which could be called just another instant messenger, but the point is that this application actually allows Android owners to exchange messages with iPhone owners via iMessage. And a few...