MWC 2023 is under way and every company in the mobile market, be it the mobile equipment providers, smartphone manufacturers, wearables manufacturers as well as tech giants supporting them are all present on the floor announcing their newest features. As part of the summit, Google...
Tag: Android apps
It can get really irritating if an email containing an event that you didn’t ask for, or don’t want to attend, directly gets added to your Google Calendar. This in effect is spamming your calendar. Google has now brought in an easy way to keep...
Android SDK Extensions – Extend new functionality to existing Android devices
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
January 14, 2023
Android, since version 10, has been supporting Modular System Components. This allows to expedite functional and security updates to the Android ecosystem outside of major API level releases and make new functionality backward compatible on already-released Android versions. End-user devices can receive updates to these...
Google soon getting Digilocker into Files app on Android
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
December 27, 2022
Digilocker, the cloud storage platform for all Government issued official documents in India is soon going to be integrated into the Files app in Android. Now Digilocker users on Android can directly access official government issued documents, straight from their Files app. Google made the...
Happy Birthday SMS – First SMS was sent 30 years ago!
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
December 9, 2022
Celebrating 30th Birthday of SMS – Short Message Service! The first SMS, wishing ‘Merry Christmas’ was sent by a software engineer on 3rd December 1992! Most of the first generation mobile phone users would have sent a free SMS as the first operation on their...
Award for the best Android app of the year 2022 goes to…
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
December 3, 2022
Google, like every year, has announced the most awaited Android app of the year 2022 awards! The awards themselves were given as best Android Game of the year 2022 as well as best Android App of the year 2022 separately, keeping in line with the...
Take notes on WhatsApp. Now you can message yourself!
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
November 15, 2022
WhatsApp has rolled out a feature where you can now message yourself! Have you been amongst those people, who would simply send your friends and family members a message or share a link, just so it stays noted for you to refer back to later?...
Google Health Connect – One app for tracking all your health and fitness data
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
Google, in collaboration with Samsung, has come up with their new Google Health Connect app, now in Beta. It’s the one app that can track all the health and fitness data coming in from multiple other apps which track their own devices respectively. So I...
Google is raising the quality bar on Android apps, with sharing insights and notices to both, the developers as well as users. Quality of an app is as important to the end user as it should be to the developer, as that is what will...
Now in Android – Google’s official reference app for Android developers
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
November 12, 2022
Now in Android is the Google’s official reference app for Android developers. Google’s Now in Android is a sample application, that Android developers can refer to, in order to get a complete reference of what the Android team has done recently, what is expected, what...