by dbadmin | Oct 1, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Google, News
Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has published a new blog post insisting that sideloading on Android isn’t going anywhere. The company reiterated that its new developer verification requirements are meant to improve safety, not to limit user...
by dbadmin | Sep 30, 2025 | Android apps, News, Samsung
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Clues spotted in a recent version of the Samsung Find app suggest satellite-based location sharing is on the way. Location updates would send every 15 minutes, with one-time sharing as a fallback. The feature would...
by dbadmin | Sep 30, 2025 | AI, Android apps, News, Nothing
Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has just announced Essential, which is a suite of AI tools. The first tools as part of Essential are Essential Apps and Playground. Essential Apps are effectively user-created mini-apps or widgets, while Playground...
by dbadmin | Sep 28, 2025 | Android apps, Features
We all have a daily productivity workflow, whether carefully honed after wild experimentation or naturally formulated through habit. Mine sits in the middle of these two poles. I’ve been on an ongoing mission to streamline my digital life, especially regarding the...
by dbadmin | Sep 28, 2025 | Android apps, Features, Google, Google Gemini, Google Home, Smart Home
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is working on a brand new Home app with Gemini integration. My colleague AssembleDebug was able to trigger that new interface and showed off the spiffy redesign with streamlined tabs that merge favorites and devices...
by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Features
Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority I was showing my dad a couple of Android features on his phone recently, and not for the first time. You might have had this revelation already, but I realized there’s so much we do unthinkingly on our devices that might still...
