by dbadmin | Jun 6, 2023 | Android, Android 11, Android 12, Android 13, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 13 can now be found on 15% of GMS-enabled Android devices worldwide. However, the most popular version of Android remains Android, present on 23.1% of Android devices worldwide. Even the decade-old Android 4.4 KitKat...
by dbadmin | May 9, 2022 | Android, Android 10, Android 11, Android 12, Android 13, News, Survey Results
Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google stopped giving out monthly Android version distribution numbers a while back. It still gives developers a breakdown once in a while via the Android Studio, but that’s something regular folks like us can’t access. So we...
by dbadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Android 11, Android 12, News, Survey Results
Android has offered chat bubbles since Android 11, essentially being small chat windows that float over other apps. But the concept dates back to the chat heads feature in the Facebook app in the early 2010s. Our own Rob Triggs wrote an opinion piece recently, saying...
by dbadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | Android, Android 11, Features, Google, Lock Screen, News
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority According to details obtained by Android Authority from a trusted source, Google was working on a smarter, visual, and more contextual lock screen and always-on display for Android. This project, which was conceptualized...
by dbadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Android 11, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface Duo, News
Credit: David Imel / Android Authority The Surface Duo has finally received an OS update. This is the Android 11 update, which was supposed to land on the device last year. The Surface Duo was a pretty hot mess when it was released in 2020, as Microsoft’s dual-screen...
by dbadmin | Sep 17, 2021 | Android 11, News, Privacy
Google will soon expand Android 11’s permission auto-reset feature for apps to older devices. This feature will be added to phones running Android 6.0 or higher starting in December. It will finish its rollout to those devices by the first quarter of 2022. Usually, if...
