by dbadmin | Apr 7, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Gemini, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Gemini’s upload and analyze feature could soon support video files. New strings in the latest Google app beta suggest that the feature may support videos in 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, and WebM formats. It might also...
by dbadmin | Apr 7, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Apps, News
Google offers several tools for Android users to identify music that they hear playing. While Pixel Now Playing and your Google account’s web history have included past song searches, a similar view has been missing from the Google app itself. Now the Google app’s...
by dbadmin | Apr 7, 2025 | Android Security, Authority Insights, Find My Device, News
Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority An app teardown has revealed that Google could ask users for a security question before activating Remote Lock on Android phones. This should make for a more secure experience as Remote Lock currently requires your phone...
by dbadmin | Apr 7, 2025 | Audio, Authority Insights, earbuds, News, OnePlus
Credit: Lil Katz / Android Authority A teardown of a OnePlus and OPPO app has revealed upcoming audio products as well as their possible features. OnePlus is working on the Buds 4, Wireless Z3, and Open Buds, while OPPO is working on a variety of new Enco earbuds....
by dbadmin | Apr 5, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, News
Android 16 now supports cloud compilation, a new feature that could speed up new app installs. The goal of cloud compilation is to avoid running the dex2oat tool during app installations by offloading compilation to the cloud. Dex2oat takes an APK file and generates...
by dbadmin | Apr 4, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, News
Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to typically happen between the app and codec process, thereby reducing CPU...
