What you need to know Smartphone sales saw overall growth of 4% year-on-year after a decline over the past two years. While Samsung and Apple continue to maintain their positions in the top five, first and second places, their overall sales have fallen. Xiaomi has become the fastest growing smartphone brand due to its portfolio…
All apps have a common goal, no matter what platform you use them on. While apps designed for a particular form factor and screen size have benefits for users in that ecosystem, denying people the freedom to run apps at whatever screen size they want doesn’t sit well with me . I had this feeling…
One of the iPhone’s enduring advantages over comparable Android devices is MagSafe, Apple’s proprietary wireless charging standard that allows for higher power throughput and the ability to magnetically connect devices to compatible accessories. While Apple has offered MagSafe charging on iPhones since 2020’s iPhone 12 series, to date no Android phone has offered a comparable…
We like UI changes in new versions of Android because they at least make it feel new, even if the feature set or any other list of changes doesn’t matter much to the user interface. most of us. When Google changes the way something looks, we get strangely excited in a way that I’m not…
The Android 16 launch date is approaching surprisingly quickly, and it won’t be long before the first beta version of the software is available for us all to enjoy. While there’s still a lot we don’t know about Android 16 and the changes it will incorporate, it looks like we could see design changes to…
Since its launch last year, Google has slightly changed the design of Circle to Search, and the latest change aims to simplify the user interface. At the start of 2024, Circle to Search was just a pill-shaped field. Google later added a Translate button and later a song search, while the Lens shortcut was eventually…
Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working to bring back predictive support for three-button navigation in Android 16. Predictive feedback lets you preview where the back button will take you. Currently, this feature only works with gesture navigation. I’m sure this has happened to you at least once in the past: you press…
After iOS, Google Photos for Android is simplifying the bottom bar by removing the “Memories” tab, although the automatic organizing feed – now called “Moments” – remains available. As such, Google Photos now has a three-tabbed bottom bar with Photos, Collections, and Search, or “Ask” powered by Gemini. As a result, the app looks much…
A new data breach has just been made public. And that’s not good news for iPhone and Android users of popular smartphone apps, ranging from Candy Crush to MyFitnessPal. Precise location of hacked data The breach affected Gravy Analytics, a location data company that captures the location information of millions of users around the world…
Nintendo DS emulators for Android allow you to play DS games on your smartphone or tablet. There are several contenders for the best DS emulator for Android, most of which are completely free. To play Nintendo DS games on Android, you need to download ROMs. Video game ROMs are available on the web through torrent…