One of the major visual changes in Android 13 is a redesign of media controls, and YouTube Music has just been updated to support the new style.
Apps need to target API level 33 to take advantage of the new design. Otherwise, all controls appear at the very bottom of the taller player for a very cramped experience that complicates tapping.
YouTube Music 5.16 targets Android 13 and gets a rounded…
As of late, Google Photos has been emphasizing screenshots and the Android app now offers an app shortcut to quickly view them.
Long-pressing on the app icon reveals the addition of “View screenshots” alongside “Free up space” and “I’m Feeling Lucky.” It’s…
With version 100 in late March, Google released a Chrome icon redesign across the desktop and mobile apps. An interview today with the team behind the revamp shares some interesting details about the process.
For example, before the 2008 launch, a rocket ship featuring a red…
I/O 2022 closed with a very unexpected look at the company’s augmented reality efforts. Google announced today that it will “test AR prototypes in the real world” starting in August.
Google says “testing only in a lab environment has its limitations,” and wants to “better understand how these devices can help people in their everyday lives.”
This “small-scale testing” will be…
The popular third-party Android launcher, Lawnchair, has lost part of its development team due to concerns about the app’s use of code taken from Google’s own Pixel Launcher.
One of the key elements of the Pixel series is its launcher, regarded by some for its clean…
Samsung Calendar update revives Google Calendar’s long-gone natural language processing
July 20, 2022
A new update rolling out for the Samsung Calendar app is set to make a few key improvements that remind us of what once was with Google Calendar. Group calendar invitation management will be easier for users and quick add recommendations are set to gain a couple of settings…
Philips Hue soon to launch new ‘Natural Light’ mode that mimics sunlight throughout the day
July 20, 2022
Smart lighting can breathe new life into your home, and one of our favorite options is Philips Hue. It’s recently been uncovered that Hue is preparing a new “Natural Light” mode which is designed to mimic real outdoor lighting conditions, and it looks pretty sweet.
This new “Natural Light” option was officially announced a while back and supposed to arrive last year, but it ended up…
Android 9.0 Pie in 2018 introduced DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and the mobile OS now supports DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH) thanks to a Google Play system update (Mainline).
Meant to be the latest method for keeping DNS queries private, DNS-over-HTTP/3 features a “number of improvements…
In addition to comments, Google Docs will soon alert you to content additions and removals with edit notifications.
These Google Docs edit notifications are delivered via email and “detail what changes were made, when the changes were made, and who made…
Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++.
Over the years, Google has created a few programming languages, some of which have become more popular and prominent than others. For example, Golang (or simply Go) was created for the purpose of improving the development of servers and distributed systems and has since been…
