by dbadmin | Oct 31, 2024 | Android 16, News
Alongside the big Android 16 release in Q2 of 2025, Google will also roll out a minor Android release in Q4 with new developer APIs. Going forward, Android will have more of these minor releases so that Google can bring new APIs in front of apps more quickly. However,...
by dbadmin | Oct 31, 2024 | Android, Android 16, Google, News
Google announced that the next major version of Android (Android 16) will be released in Q2 of 2025, which is several months earlier than usual. Google’s VP and GM of the Android Platform told me in an interview how the company was able to move the release forward by...
by dbadmin | Oct 28, 2024 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Google, News
Toggling your phone’s Wi-Fi or Bluetooth radio may only require a single tap in Android 16. As part of the overhauled Quick Settings panel, the Internet and Bluetooth tiles may be updated to support toggling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with a single tap. Since Android 12,...
by dbadmin | Oct 26, 2024 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Google, News
Android 16 may let you resize Quick Settings tiles, according to evidence we discovered in the latest Android beta. You’ll be able to resize any Quick Settings tiles, though they can only be either 1×1 or 2×1 in size. This resizable Quick Settings tiles feature seems...
by dbadmin | Oct 25, 2024 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Google, News
Google may introduce a new API that lets apps create Rich Ongoing Notifications in Android 16. Rich Ongoing Notifications will appear as chips in the status bar. The feature seems somewhat like Apple’s Dynamic Island on iPhones, though technically Android used status...
by dbadmin | Oct 24, 2024 | Android 16, News
We have more details on Google’s efforts to revamp the Do Not Disturb mode in next year’s Android 16 update. In the latest Android beta, we’ve discovered that the in-development feature is no longer called Priority Modes but instead just Modes. In addition, we’ve...
