Google has announced over twitter that the Nexus 9 will soon be receiving an update to version 5.1, starting today. Until today, the latest software version that was available for the Nexus 9 was Andoird Lollipop 5.0.2 while most of it’s counterparts received 5.1 quite a while back.
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Google has just announced Games in Motion for Android. It’s an open source game sample to show how games can be made to make use of Google Fit and Android Wear.
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Software companies and smartphone manufacturers are always trying to find new and better ways of interacting with your smartphone. While most of these involve you interacting with your touchscreen in some way or another, Google is set to launch a new feature called Voice Access that will allow you to do without it totally.
The official schedule for Google’s I/O is now live and under one of the events scheduled for Android for Work, there was a mention of Android M. This could mean that Google might be announcing Android M at I/O between 28th and 29th of May.
After shipping Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OTA update to Nexus 10 last week, Google has now rolled out the OTA update to Nexus 7 2012 (Wi-Fi). We have received the update in India on Wednesday and it weighs 9.6MB in size.
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Google is said to soon give developers more power over the listings for their apps on Google Play in the form of A/B testing, as per a latest report from The Information.
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Google has acquired smart calendar iOS app Timeful in order to make scheduling more easier. The app combines calendar, to-do list, and more and into a single calendar.
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Google+ has taken a leaf from Pinterest and introduced a new feature called as Collections. The new feature allows users to create different category boards such as images, videos and other content in Google Plus.
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Google has just updated its Play Store and it brings a few improvements and features to the table. The latest version is 5.5 and will be rolling out across Android devices as we speak.
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Back in October last year, Google started asking third-party Android app developers to integrate the ‘Ok, Google’ voice command action for their in-app searches. Now, on Thursday the Search giant announced that the feature has been made available to its “first set of partners”. Continue reading “‘Ok, Google’ custom voice actions rolling out for third-party apps”
Google already lets you do lots of day to day tasks with simple “OK Google” voice command. Today, the company has teamed up with third party apps including Shazam in order to launch them directly from Search app.
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Google has launched Password Alert Chrome Extension that will warn you against phishing attacks. Password Alert will alarm you if a website that you type your sign-in information into is not a legitimate Google sign-in page.
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Google on Tuesday started rolling out the updated Play Newsstand app for Android devices. The update brings overall performance and UI improvements, more articles from the sources, smarter recommendations, bug fixes and more. Continue reading “Google Play Newsstand update brings smarter recommendations and more”
Google has updated Google Play Services to version 7.3 that brings support for multiple Android Wear devices and other improvements. The update also adds changes that are developer specific.
Google Now is getting more cards as it is expanding its support to 70 new third party apps. The latest addition comes from the company after it added 40 new Android apps to Google Now in January this year.
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