Once live, these special notifications will appear fully expanded on the lock screen. Google has officially begun rolling out Live Updates with the stable release of Android 16, offering a glimpse at ...

Google could be reintroducing “Lock Screen Widgets” in Android 15. However, these “widgets” may resemble the Live Actions feature in Apple’s iOS for iPhone. Android widgets are one of the most useful ...

Android 16’s Live Updates feature, a highly anticipated feature, isn’t fully active on Pixel phones at launch; the complete experience arrives in a future update (likely QPR1/QPR2). These ...

Android 16 might offer similar functionality to Apple’s Live Activities via a feature called “Rich Ongoing Notifications.” Spotted by Mishaal Rahman, writing for Android Authority, the Android 15 beta ...

With Android 5.0.1 Lollipop and a mass of app updates rolling out this week, Google is also pushing out a new version of Google Fit. The update includes 100 new activities, bug fixes and a few extras ...

One of the many benefits of Android Wear 2.0 (for devices that have built-in GPS and LTE capabilities, at least) is that some Android Wear watches can now work entirely without a connected smartphone.

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Historically, transitions between activities and fragments in Android involved animating the entire view hierarchy. However, with Material Design, it is now easier to animate selected Views during a ...

Google develops the open source Android operating system, and hardware makers like Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, and Xiaomi build upon it, competing directly with Apple’s closed iOS ecosystem.

If your Android 15-based Xiaomi device has run out of major Android OS upgrades, you still have a chance to experience ...