Have you ever swiped away a notification on Android by mistake? It can be frustrating! Luckily, there’s a new feature coming in Android 11 that’s live now in the second developer preview called “Notification history” which should solve this problem.
Notification history was previously enabled in the first developer preview, but now Android 11 DP2 pushes the feature live for everyone. At…
In the world of Android development, you need to connect your computer to your phone, usually via a USB cable, in order to transmit your app to your phone. To simplify and modernize this process, Android 11 Developer Preview 2 includes a new “Wireless debugging” setting…
In the first developer preview of Android 11, Google blocked access to the traditional Easter egg in an unprecedented move. Now, in the second developer preview, Android 11 is re-enabling access.
Digging into the settings menu of Android 11 on a Pixel smartphone, you’ll…
Display cutouts are the lay of the land in 2020 and to help developers out with all of the new designs, Google is adding a new option to Android 11’s developer options to simulate punch hole cutouts and waterfall displays.
Punch hole displays have exploded in popularity in the past year or so with everyone from Samsung to Huawei and many, many more. Alongside that, waterfall displays are…
Easily 6 months later than it should have, Google has finally added a much-needed security feature to the Pixel 4. With Android 11’s second developer preview, the “require eyes to be open” feature for Pixel 4’s face unlock is now live.
If you’ll recall back when…
Until May, the next version of Android remains intended for and focussed on developers. With that in mind, we’re diving into today’s release of Android 11 DP2 to find all the new features.
Developer Preview 1 had quite a few user-facing changes that made their way to…
It’s finally here folks. As noted in the first developer preview, Android 11 is finally working on a native screen recorder after years of users begging for the functionality. Now, in the second developer preview, Android 11’s screen recorder is building on its UI with some limited options.
In the first preview, the screen recorder was very, limited with only a quick settings shortcut to…
In the second developer preview of Android 11, Google is tweaking the theming app that ships with Pixel smartphones with a new option and a completely redesigned wallpaper picker.
If you long-press an empty space on the Pixel Launcher’s homescreen, you’ll be greeted…
The latest Android developer preview has enabled lockscreen clock customization for Pixel owners for the first time — although your options are quite limited.
After installing the latest developer preview, when you enter the theming options within the Styles &…
Members of the Google Brain team and Google AI this week open-sourced EfficientDet, an AI tool that achieves state-of-the-art object detection while using less compute. Creators of the system say it also achieves faster performance when used with CPUs or GPUs than other popular objection detection models like YOLO or AmoebaNet.
When tasked with semantic segmentation, another task related to object…
