Android 11 seems chock full of tweaks and new features for notifications, and one big one that may be on the way is a revamp of the notification log. The little-known Android feature may soon get a much-needed revamp in the form of “Notification history.”
In case you didn’t know, Android has had a mostly-hidden feature for a few releases called the “notification log.” This option shows…
The first Android 11 Developer Preview arrived for our Pixels today, bringing a variety of updates, and preparing for things to come in the later betas. In an example of the latter, the Google Pixel Launcher has been updated with references to a smart hotseat of app…
Android 11 DP1: You can now pin up to 4 apps to the share menu
February 20, 2020
Sharing on Android has always been flexible and powerful, but over the past few releases, it’s run into some hangs. Between slow loading and changing categories, the Android share menu has often been more trouble than it’s worth, but on Android 11 Google is helping with…
Android 10 saw the debut of a proper, full gesture navigation system from Google. Over the course of several beta releases, Google tweaked the system and how users could control it and, now, in Android 11, we’re seeing more tweaks Google will make available for gestures through a new settings menu.
While it’s not user-facing just yet, we were able to turn on a new section of the settings menu…
Android 11 DP1: ‘Battery Share’ hints at Pixel 5 w/ reverse wireless charging, ‘redfin’
February 20, 2020
Google’s 2020 Pixel Buds are just around the corner, and while they’re slated to have solid battery life, sometimes you need just a little bit more play time. Phones like the Galaxy S10 and S20 have offered the ability to a Qi wireless charge to other phones or to…
Natural language models typically have to solve two tough problems: mapping sentence prefixes to fixed-sized representations and using the representations to predict the next word in the text. In a recent paper, researchers at Facebook AI Research assert that the first…
High refresh rate displays are showing up basically everywhere in the Android world in 2020 and now, Google is offering developers a handy option to see what the current refresh rate is on your display at all times.
This new developer option is pretty straightforward. When toggled on, it shows in chunky numbers at the top of the screen what the current refresh rate of the display is. Since I’m…
More than 40% of U.S. federal agencies and departments have experimented with AI tools, but only 15% currently use highly sophisticated AI, according to analysis by Stanford University computer scientists published today in “Government by Algorithm,” a joint report from…
In addition to its coming native screen recorder, it looks like Google is finally delivering scrolling screenshots as a native feature in Android 11. While scrolling screenshots aren’t working properly just yet, we’ve been able to enable the UI to show you a quick…
Android 11’s first Developer Preview just landed today and it brings along with it a handful of new features. If you’ve got a Pixel 4, though, Android 11 brings a new Motion Sense gesture and touch sensitivity options on Android 11 too.
Spotted by , Motion Sense on Pixel 4 gets a small, but meaningful upgrade with the Android 11 update. Now, Pixel 4’s Soli sensor will recognize when your…
