Last year the hit game Fortnite was briefly available on Android through the Google Play Store, until Epic Games kicked off its war against app store fees by adding its own payment system to the game behind the backs of Google and Apple. Now, Google is launching a countersuit against Epic Games for that breach of contract. Epic Games launched a lawsuit against Google immediately after the app…

Smart Lock dates back to Android Lollipop and was Google’s solution for reducing the number of times users had to enter their passcodes before the ubiquity of fingerprint readers. Smart Lock in Android Settings was recently updated with a much-needed modern UI. Smart Lock is powered directly by Google Play services and until recently kept the same interface from 2014. This included screens…

With Android 12 Beta 5 last month, Google introduced Material You clock widgets. An update to Google Clock is rolling out today with a brand new widget and a grand total of five clock styles to choose from. After placing a widget, you’ll be able to select from different “clock styles.” For example, “Analog” offers: Scallop: Like the original, it retains a scalloped perimeter, but with…

Android has supported a native dark theme for its past couple of releases, but it’s taken time for some apps to adopt the feature. Twitter has had a dark theme for ages, but it’s always ignored the system theme on Android. Now, that’s finally changing. Announced today, Twitter for Android is adding “auto dark mode.” In other words, the app will finally offer the option for users to see…