The Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update is now available for Google's Pixel phones. It does bring quite a few notable changes.

Google's first Android 16 QPR3 beta adds new animations, navigation layout options, flashlight controls and finally allows ...

As we previously spotted, the Google Home app on Android is getting a new homescreen widget and Wear OS Tile. This new Favorites widget can show your smart home devices, automations, and actions in a ...

Participants in the Android Beta Program get first dibs on the next update, which is set to land in official form next year ...

After years of neglect, Google is finally bringing some widget goodness back to the Android lock screen interface, and it's ...

The Google Search widget on Android could soon get a third, customizable shortcut. It will let you add a shortcut to quickly launch Translate (text), Song Search, Weather, Translate (camera), or ...

The app is called Action Blocks. Its main benefit is that it turns repetitive voice commands into one-tap buttons, eliminating the need to speak and reducing wait times. Developed for accessibility, ...

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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 ...

To round out the Widgets Spotlight Week, the Android team yesterday hosted a YouTube Q&A session. We learned about the status of stackable widgets and whether they are coming to Android XR.

Home screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android ...