Epic Games, the developers of the popular Battle Royale game, Fortnite has finally relented and decided to make the game available for download via the Google Play Store. Epic Games had previously refused to release the game via the Play Store due to the high 30% cut that Google keeps for all in-app purchases.
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Often when signing up for subscription in Android apps, user do not clearly know what they are signing up, leading to mistrust or an increased chance of feeling cheated. To improve the situation, Google is introducing a number of changes for developers to follow and ensure that the user will clearly understand the terms of the subscription service before singing up.
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YouTube has been introducing new features to its platform lately like UPI support, Dark Mode toggle, voice search for cast, and more. On similar lines now, YouTube has made a change in the view count numbering format displayed on videos.
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Analysing its data from Android’s Digital Wellbeing, Google has discovered an issue where parents found it difficult to discover apps for their kids that would help them grow as a child. To help these parents, Google has released a new badge called “Teacher approved” that assures a quality standard for kid-friendly apps on the Play Store.
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To combat the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, many companies around the world are coming up with special measures. Google has been proactively making available useful information related to COVID-19 such as SOS Alert in Search, virtual healthcare option in Maps, displaying food and night shelter locations, and more. Today, Google in a blog post has said that it is promoting reliable, authoritative information and has shared an update on the action that it has taken in bringing this information to people.
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The Google Phone app has always been exclusive to Pixel devices as its default dealer application. However, due to reasons unknown, the Phone app can somehow be installed on non-Pixel devices and even have some of the features it contains, enabled successfully.
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Google has been taking several steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and help to gather information regarding that. Health consultations over the phone or by video conference have started increasing during lockdowns in several countries so people could continue getting medical care from the comfort and safety of their own homes to protect patients and staff against COVID-19. Continue reading “Google will highlight virtual healthcare options in Search and Maps”
Apple and Google have announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design. Both the companies will be launching APIs and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Continue reading “Apple and Google are collaborating for COVID-19 contact tracing iOS and Android apps, Bluetooth-based platform”
With an increased number of classrooms and educations being conducted online, Google is introducing a lot of new changes to improve Meet for their G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education users. These include Classroom integration with Meet, security and encryption updates, addition of premium Meet features for free and more.
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Google has just launched a new accessibility feature for blind people called the Talkback braille keyboard. It is a new virtual keyboard that will be integrated directly into android, enabling a blind person to type fast and conveniently without any additional hardware.
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Samsung’s in-house Exynos SoCs have been there for a while now, and the company is set to launch Exynos SoCs with AMD Graphics next year which could drastically improve the GPU performance. Lately, Exynos SoCs are being used on non-Samsung smartphones as well and on similar lines now, a new report suggests that Samsung is working on a custom chipset for Google which could be announced as soon as this year.
Renders of the Google Pixel 4a surfaced last year, and live images of the phone have along with specifications surfaced last month showing off the phone’s punch-hole OLED display, square camera module, rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a small bezel below the screen. Now the retail box of the phone and more specifications has surfaced. Continue reading “Google Pixel 4a with 5.81-inch FHD+ OLED display, Snapdragon 730 retail box surfaces; launch imminent”
In February, Google released an update to Chrome Beta v81 that added a lot of API’s that could power new experiences in the future. These include Web NFC API, WebXR augumented reality API’s, etc. and Google has brought them over to the stable version in Chrome v81.
Google’s own game streaming service Stadia, has become the next company to take advantage of increased number of people being quarantined at home. Starting today and rolling out over the next 48 hours, Google is offering a free trial of Stadia Pro, which usually costs $9.99/month, for the next two months in 14 countries.
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Google introduced seamless updates back in 2016 with Android 7.0. Any Android smartphone that features Seamless System updates will have two partitions; A and B and when a firmware update arrives, it is downloaded and installed on the second inactive partition. Once the update is downloaded and installed, the phone will boot into the newly updated firmware.
