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How I run Android apps on Windows and why you would want to

Extract the archive and open the extracted folder. Scroll through the files and look for 'install.ps1.' Right-click on this ...
Android Police

Android 16 adds new way to see when apps are using your location

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 ...
9to5google

Android 16 QPR3 adds a blue dot to show when apps are using your location

Google is adding a new notifying dot in Android 16 QPR3 which tells you when an app is accessing your location. Back in 2021’s Android 12 release, Google added a new green dot to prominently notify ...
Digital Trends

Google is working on an Android feature to reduce motion sickness while using your phone

What happened: Motion Cues is Google’s attempt to fix “sensory conflict.” That’s the fancy term for what happens when your eyes tell your brain you are sitting still (staring at a screen), but your ...
techtimes

Android Accessibility Settings: How to Use Android Live Caption & Essential Assistive Tools for Everyone

Discover how to enable Android accessibility settings, use Live Caption Android, and customize essential assistive tools for a more inclusive and user-friendly smartphone experience. Pixabay, Pexels ...
Android Authority

This free app finally lets your AirPods Pro play nice with Android phones

An Android app now allows you to explore AirPods features that were previously limited to iOS or macOS devices. These include ANC controls, auto play-pause, battery status, head gesture detection, and ...
Bleeping Computer

Google to flag Android apps with excessive battery use on the Play Store

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...
AppleInsider

Android developers can now make apps using Apple's Swift

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.
BGR

4 Essential Android Apps For Photography That You Should Be Using

For photographers looking to use a mobile device for high-end results, the camera app that comes installed on many Android phones rarely gives enough control over the camera hardware to achieve those ...
Android Authority

We finally know how Android's new app verification rules will actually work

Starting next year, Android will block the installation of apps from unverified developers, a policy that affects both Play Store and sideloaded apps. The new system requires Android to check if a ...
The New York Times

How to Give Your Older Phone New Software Powers

Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer has been writing ...