Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

Notifications are a powerful tool in the Android developer’s toolkit, helping to keep your users up-to-date on events that are happening inside your application, even when they’re not looking at your ...

Google may be developing “Magic Actions” for Android, an AI-powered enhancement to notification actions that could leverage the Gemini AI model. This new feature, which we spotted in Android 16 code, ...

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 ...

Google may soon address a longstanding issue faced by users of multiple Android devices. A new “sync notifications across devices” feature, discovered in the latest Android 15 beta update, promises to ...

Android 16 will introduce Notification cooldown, which gradually decreases alert volume from repeated app pings. It will also hide very old notifications, introduce Rich Ongoing Notifications, and use ...

Google is adapting one of Apple's few out-and-out failures as a new Android AI feature that it seems no one actually even ...

Google is tightening its grip on original equipment manufacturers that use Android on their phones. The company has released a new version of the Compatibility Definition Document for Android, ...

Notifications are one of the best parts of Android. The control you have over your notifications is immense. That being said, we can’t always pay attention to notifications, and at times we do get ...

It is the anti-phishing tool for messengers’ and SMS notifications. When the feature is activated, Kaspersky for Android identifies and removes scam and suspicious links in mobile notifications and ...

The first developer preview for Android 12 is here! We’re digging through to see what’s new, and as is customary for Google, one of the first things we noticed was yet another tweak to the design of ...

Liam loves Android, design, user experience, and travel. He doesn't love ill-proportioned letter forms, advertisements made entirely of stock photography, and writing biographical snippets. For the ...