Google rolled out the Android 16 Beta 1 update earlier in January. At the time, the search engine giant announced that ...

Google appears to be toying with a new take on notification icons in the status bar which, instead of the current look, would use the full-color app icons from your Android homescreen. The Android ...

Android 15 will arrive on phones in the next few weeks. The upcoming update is creating excitement with its new features and improvements. Hints from the source code, released earlier this month, ...

Google is considering changing which icons Android will use to show notifications in the status bar, notifications shelf, and always-on display. The company is experimenting with using apps’ main ...

We successfully activated Android 16’s Live Updates feature, allowing us to showcase what live notifications will look like. Live Updates is a new class of notifications for ongoing activities like ...

Google is working on a “Rich Ongoing Notifications” API that could give Android phones a version of iOS’ Live Activities. Google is working on a “Rich Ongoing Notifications” API that could give ...

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 ...

To put it politely, Android 16 QPR1 is the “real” release that we probably should have had earlier in the year. Not only is it a visual overhaul, but it’s also more feature-packed than the first phase ...