If you use the Google Clock app for your alarm and have grown tired of the standard options to help you wake up or remember to do something, then you may be in for a treat with the app’s newest addition.
Google has announced the Clock app now supports Spotify. You will need to make sure that the latest...
Google Clock app now supports Spotify for alarms
Most people don't like to wake up to the grating whine of a regular alarm clock, and a lot of the "alarm" sounds on phones are scarcely better. Now, the Google Clock app offers an alternative. In the latest version, you can use music from Spotify for your alarms. Play Music and YouTube Music? Nope,...
Premium SimCity-like 'Pocket City' is out for Android
If you haven't yet heard about Pocket City, boy are you in for a treat. It's a premium single purchase simulation city-builder from Codebrew Games - a one-person indie studio from Toronto, Canada. It's your job as a new city mayor to strategically erect residential, commercial, and industrial...
Mozilla's Indonesia-exclusive Firefox Rocket browser is now Firefox Lite
Mozilla started messing around with a pared down version of its Firefox browser specifically for Indonesia late last year. It's got the data-saving features you'd come to expect in a bare-bones mobile browser, like options to not load images or save web pages to read offline. Now, the project has...
Google Calendar adds 'Propose a new time' option to meetings
Google Calendar is a pretty good way to manage your time, but since it's a core app in G Suite, "pretty good" isn't good enough. One of the many things potential meeting attendees might expect to be able to do in a business calendar app is suggest a different time, due to a conflict perhaps, but that...
Chrome 68 Beta bug gives the tab switcher a very basic look, but it should be temporary
According to several reports we've received over the past couple of weeks, a bug appears to be happening for Chrome 68 Beta users that transforms their neat card-based tab switcher into a super basic list of open tabs. If you're affected, you only need to give it some time, it should revert back to...
ARCore v1.4 adds support for its first Chromebook, Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, and many more [APK Teardown]
Every month or so, an update to AR Core rolls out with support for a whole new set of phones, tablets... and now Chromebooks? Yes, the first Chrome OS device has been found among the list of profiles included in the AR Core APK, and that is the recently released Acer Chromebook Tab 10. Also joining...
WhatsApp starts showing a 'Mark as read' button on notifications for some users
Not to be outdone by Telegram's new "Mark as read" button on notifications, WhatsApp is rolling the same feature out to some users now. Not everyone is able to see this shortcut, even those of us on the latest beta, so it appears the function is enabled via a server-side switch.
We've received several...
[Update: Pulled] Latest Google app beta (v8.14.12) repeatedly crashing for many
Update 1: 2018/07/30 9:42pm PDT
The update has been pulled, other devices also affected
Developer previews aren't always the most stable, and they aren't meant to be. They are the process by which a stable is created. Because of that, sometimes it's possible to run into a few issues when using...
Ecobee introduces Peak Relief pilot program to save money during peak price hours
If you own an Ecobee thermostat, you may be eligible to join a new program Ecobee calls “Peak Relief.” This pilot program aims to save you up to 10 percent on your heating bill (on top of the savings you’re already used to thanks to a smart thermostat) by avoiding turning the heat or A/C up during...
Google Chrome now accessible with Daydream VR
Google Daydream is Google’s virtual reality system and can be used with either a phone in a headset or standalone headsets like the Lenovo Mirage Solo. If you were using the former, you could fire up Google Chrome and use it in the VR headset. However, this was impossible with standalone headsets.
Fortunately,...
AMC TV now has its own Android TV app
We talk a lot about cord-cutting — "skinny bundles" and the like — but there are still plenty of cable holdouts. Cable boxes are largely terrible, though, so any opportunity to not use them is a boon. To that end, AMC has just released an Android TV app.
AMC has had an Android app for years, but...
Top 5 most popular Android apps from last week: Pluvius, Alto’s Odyssey
Every week we cover new Android apps with Fresh Meat on Wednesday, followed by Android Gaming on Thursday and Top 10 App Updates on Friday. When Monday rolls around, we look back to see which apps were the most appealing to our audience. Read on for the five most...
Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium now available with 5.8-inch 4K HDR display
The LG Signature Edition isn’t the only premium smartphone that’s launching this week.
The Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium is now available from Amazon. It’s being sold as a GSM unlocked device, meaning it’ll work with carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S. There are two color options available: Chrome...
WhatsApp group audio and video calls are now rolling out to everyone
After leaks and teardown revelations aplenty, WhatsApp group calls were finally formally revealed at Facebook's F8 developer conference in early May. By the end of the month, the feature had started showing up for some. Now, WhatsApp has announced that group audio and video calls are rolling...
Supporting display cutouts on edge-to-edge screens
Posted By Megan Potoski, Product Manager, Android System UI
Smartphones are quickly moving towards smaller bezels and larger aspect ratios. On these devices, display cutouts are a popular way to achieve an edge-to-edge experience while providing space for important sensors on the front of the device....
LG Signature Edition phone costs $1800
Smartphones have been becoming more expensive over the years, and it looks like LG wants to go ahead and jump as far ahead of the pack as possible.
This isn’t a super rugged phone or a device that’s rocking some Lamborghini branding. LG calls its newest smartphone the “Signature Edition”, and it boasts...
Huawei MediaPad M5 tablet review
The tablet market isn’t nearly as competitive as it used to be. Apple rules the market with the iPad and many Android manufacturers have given up on tablets entirely.
However, Huawei is still pushing out well priced, solid tablets for those of us who would like to stay away from iOS. Android isn’t...
Epic Games may distribute Fortnite for Android on its website rather than the Play Store
Fortnite is supposed to come to Android this summer, but developer Epic Games hasn't offered any firm timeline yet. A recent report suggested that Fortnite would launch as an exclusive on the Samsung Galaxy Note9, and that may not be the developer's only trick. The game may never come to the Play...
OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T will receive Android P update
In May of last year, OnePlus made OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T owners happy by announcing that their devices would be updated to Android Oreo. Now there’s even more good news.
OnePlus has confirmed that both the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T will be updated to Android P. The two handsets will skip...
Fortnite may not be available in the Play Store when it launches
At some point in the near future, Epic Games is going to launch their mega popular game Fortnite Battle Royale for Android. But when it arrives, there may be an important caveat to be aware of.
Thanks to the folks over at XDA, we have learned that when Fortnite arrives on Android, it may not actually...
22 new and notable augmented reality apps and games from the last four months (3/24/18 - 7/30/18)
There was a huge uptick of augmented reality apps and games released on the Play Store back in March that was a result of ARCore's expanded device support. AP covered both the games and apps published at the time, but I wanted to keep track of further releases just to see if we could keep these AR...
Latest Honor 10 update brings AIS for better camera performance, GPU Turbo mode
The Honor 10 is a great budget device with a camera that punches way above its class, but without OIS the image quality suffered in low light. Even with EIS, the device had to add a lot of noise to compensate for movement.
The latest update that was recently released includes a new “AIS” feature,...
Google Chrome now available on Daydream VR
Chrome has been able to view web VR content for some time now, but there has always been one problem - you couldn't launch Chrome from the Daydream launcher. In other words, you had to navigate to the desired page on your phone, then put your phone in a VR headset. That's not a great experience, and...
29 temporarily free and 26 on-sale apps to start the week
Welcome to the final days of July and our last app sales roundup for the month. We have some good items on offer today, and my personal recommendations are in bold below. Enjoy and I'll be back again in August.
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Engineering quantity estimate $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
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Google promises to stop suggesting 'my face' when you type 'sit on' in Gboard
Applying machine learning to everything under the sun can be tricky. Case in point: Gboard's text prediction has been suggesting people type "my face and" after the words "sit on," resulting in a reference to a sexual act. Google says it's an accident, though, and it's working on a fix for the...
[Pssst, Gmail, You Listening?] Telegram 4.9 added a 'Mark as read' button in notifications
When you get bombarded by notifications throughout the day, the most useful tool at your disposal is a "Mark as read" button. Because most notifications these days can be expanded, it's easy to read the entire content of a message sent through SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Gmail. But dismissing the...
Gboard's spell check is now working for some users on v7.4.18 (beta) [APK Download]
Gboard's history with spell check isn't a good one. For months and months, users complained that spell check wasn't working, then version 7.4 of Gboard gave us false hope that it was fixed by surfacing a new banner for the spell checker. Unfortunately, it still wasn't functional and was nowhere to...
Long press the back button to bring up your tab history in Chrome Canary v70
One of my most wanted features in Chrome is a quick way to access a tab's history, or even pull up my complete browsing history, to go back to a page or article I was checking earlier. Starting with Chrome 70, which is now in the Canary channel, there will be a flag that will let me do just that.
If...
Google Pixel 3 XL leaks again, this time in white
It’s been about a month since we last got any rumors or leaks about the Google Pixel 3 XL, but now that drought is coming to an end.
Photos that allegedly show the Pixel 3 XL have made their way online. Shared by xda-developers forum user “dr.guru”, the shots depict a device with an all-white backside...
