Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

For many years, the Cast controller for devices playing media on your home network appeared as a regular Android notification that’s “Silent” at the bottom of the feed. In the past week or so, Google ...

If you’re an Android user who relies on Google Maps for navigation and tunes, you might have experienced a small but frustrating hiccup earlier this week. Suddenly, the handy media playback controls ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Casting from your devices hasn’t been the most streamlined process over the years. We were all waiting for it to be as intuitive as listening to content natively on your Android device. Well, that day ...

In addition to “AI Camera Search” with clip descriptions, Google today detailed other upcoming Home app features, like a redesign of media controls. Today, opening a device tile that’s actively ...

Media playback controls disappeared from Google Maps on Android devices this week, disrupting music and podcast listening for millions of drivers. The issue, affecting widely used music apps like ...

Google Maps has fixed a bug, restoring media playback controls for Android users. The controls, which briefly disappeared, are now returning via a server-side update. While a minor tweak requires ...

Android Auto is testing a new media playback UI on its home screen's media card, rearranging the buttons to place the Play/Pause control on the left, closer to the driver in left-hand drive vehicles.