Google Pixel phones are adding support for the three-button layout used in navigation by Samsung Galaxy smartphones, but only in the latest beta for now. Android has largely moved to gestures for ...

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A new menu found in the latest Android Canary build reveals the UI for a game controller remapping feature likely coming in Android 17. Found under Bluetooth settings, the “Game Controller settings” ...

JAKARTA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The death toll from landslides in two regions of Indonesia's Central Java rose to 30 as rescue efforts continued, the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Friday.

Stock Android is finally gaining the ability to reorder its classic three-button navigation bar. The setting, now live in an early build, allows users to flip the layout (e.g., placing the Back button ...

Inarguably, one of the worst things that can happen mid-conversation while texting is that your signal drops or you run into a problem sending outgoing messages. There are a wide variety of reasons ...

It turns out Google Messages supports text formatting, but currently, only the integrated Gemini chatbot can use it to format its own replies. The hidden feature uses Markdown syntax, as seen when the ...

Google is making a notable quality-of-life improvement to Gmail notifications by adding a “Mark as read” button on Android. To date, Gmail for Android notifications let you “Reply” and pick between ...

Google LLC’s Android Studio got a significant upgrade Monday with an experimental capability that can handle complex developmental tasks by just chatting with Gemini, the company’s flagship artificial ...

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If you're a long-time Android Auto user, you certainly remember the good old days when the app displayed a weather widget. The next refresh killed off the widget, but Google still found a way to ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...