Following in the footsteps of Tile and Samsung’s new Galaxy Tag, Apple unveiled its AirTag tracker this week for keeping track of your keys, wallet, or whatever else you want to attach the $29 device to. You’d be correct in assuming these are designed to work with iPhones, but Apple did include the tiniest bit of functionality for AirTags with Android.
Quickly recapping how AirTags work, the…
Security updates are designed to keep Android devices as secure as possible, but you’re only as safe as your latest update. OnePlus does promise regular updates for its smartphones for at least two years, so let’s see how they’re handling the April 2021 security…
Infinix launches Hot 10S Series gaming smartphone
April 22, 2021
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China’s Infinix unveiled its Hot 10S Series, a gaming and entertainment smartphone that has a lot of high-end features.
The Infinix Hot 10S and Hot 10S NFC models have high-end…
The security of millions of iOS apps could have been compromised due to a security vulnerability in the popular dependency manager CocoaPods.
Software developers often rely on code written by other companies or developers in order to speed up the development of their products. To facilitate the management of code from other sources — known as dependencies — developers use a tool called a…
Twitter for iOS launches 4K image support to everybody
April 22, 2021
After more than a month of testing, Twitter is finally enabling all users to upload and see 4K images on its app.
As previously reported, Twitter was testing an improved design for sharing images as well as 4K image upload support, so the user can share pictures with a…
The Pixel Launcher gained a 4×5 grid option with Developer Preview 1 in February and is now picking up a second 4×4 layout in Android 12 DP3 that notably shrinks the size of app icons.
Android 11 today offers Default (5×5), 4×4, 3×3, and 2×2 grid sizes. Each drop in…
As we delve deep into the minutiae of the third Android 12 Developer Preview, we’re finding more notable changes including the screenshot editor and markup tool.
We’re not yet seeing the highly anticipated scrolling screenshot option in Android 12 DP3, but you will have more options for editing your images. This expands upon the changes first added in the Android 12 DP1 build, with further…
How to downgrade from Android 12 Developer Preview 3 to Android 11 on Google Pixel [Video]
April 22, 2021
If you are not content with the most recent Android 12 Developer Preview on your Google Pixel, it’s probably music to your ears knowing that you can downgrade your OS to a stable version of Android 11 if you encounter any major problems.
We’ve shown you how to install…
Android 12 DP3: Widgets get revamped w/ new menu, recommendations, forced rounded corners
April 22, 2021
Following the recent popularity of homescreen widgets after their launch on iOS, Android 12 is giving some love to the OS’s long-existing widgets system, including a new menu, forced rounded corners, and more.
With Android 12 Developer Preview 3, Google has made quite a…
Android 12 DP3: ‘Verified links’ open directly in apps instead of showing ‘open with’ dialog
April 22, 2021
A useful feature of Android is its ability to share content to any app and open links with any supported app. Now, in Android 12, Google is making that process a bit smoother by adding “verified links” that open directly in their designated apps instead of showing a chooser dialog.
Detailed in Google’s blog post and live in Android 12 DP3, “verified links” are the URLs that the app…
