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Are you still using Google Assistant instead of Gemini on your Android phone?

If so, you should know that Google will stop offering it later this year, so you'll have to switch. Gemini is also coming to cars, wearables, and other devices.

Details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/google-killing-assistant-3535315/
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🖥️ Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily

The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3

Beta 3 also added the Display activity button, but it doesn't work in this release.

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-tabs-3535373/
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🖥️ Android 16 improves multitasking by letting you minimize desktop windows

With Android 16 Beta 3, a minimize button has been added to the header bar of apps in Android’s desktop windowing mode.

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-minimize-desktop-windows-3535415/
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💻 Google says its new Linux Terminal feature isn't a replacement for Android's desktop mode

A Googler has revealed why the Terminal app was added to Android, also revealing some interesting tidbits about the future of Linux apps on Android!

Details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-purpose-3535765/
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🖥️ Android 16 lets you record what you're doing on an external monitor

Android 16 adds support for recording the screen content of an external monitor hooked up to an Android device

Details 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-record-external-monitor-3535871/
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⌚️Pebble is BACK!

The new Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 are Pebble watches in all but name, with the same simple, iconic Pebble design, but new sensors and DRAMATICALLY improved battery life (up to 1 month!)

Full details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/core-2-duo-and-core-time-2-3535895/
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The Pixel 9a is finally official!

🔋 Biggest battery in a Pixel (5100mAh)
📱 6.3" FHD OLED display @ 120Hz
🔥Tensor G4 processor
📝8 GB RAM + 128/256GB storage
⬇️ 7 years of updates
💰Starts @ $499 USD/$679 CAD/£499/€559

ALL the details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-9a-3479179/
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💳 Google Wallet is adding parental control support!

Kids with the new Pixel 9a will be able to make contactless payments in stores, and parents can manage their transactions/cards.

More details 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-9a-google-wallet-for-kids-3534531/
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Your Pixel phone quietly got a big boost in GPU performance in the latest Android update

Pixel phones with Tensor chips are seeing significant increases in GPU benchmark scores, likely due to GPU driver updates

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-phones-gpu-performance-boost-3537248/
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🛰 The Pixel 9a offers like ... 90% of the experience that the Pixel 9 offers (totally making that number up)

But to make it $300 cheaper, Google had to cut some corners. And one of those cut features is, sadly, satellite SOS/messaging.

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-9a-satellite-sos-3536849/
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🛜 The Galaxy S25 is Samsung's first phone to support Android's Instant Hotspot feature

With Instant Hotspot, you can share your Samsung phone’s Internet connection with any Android tablet, not just Samsung-made ones.

More details 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s25-instant-hotspot-3537161/
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The Pixel 10 will have faster startup performance thanks to this Android change

A change in Android’s boot process has resulted in a 30% reduction in module loading time on the Pixel 10 and other Android devices.

More details 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-10-startup-performance-3537302/
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📂 Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal

Android makes its downloads folder available to the Linux VM, but unfortunately other files aren’t available

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/access-android-files-from-linux-terminal-3536713/
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🔓Android 16 now lets all Pixel phones use fingerprint unlock even when the screen is off

The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature expands to all Pixel phones in Android 16 Beta 3. It was previously limited to the Pixel 9.

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/screen-off-fingerprint-unlock-pixel-3537472/
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🔐 Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why

Parts of Android (ART, Bluetooth, Virtualization, etc.) are currently developed in public, but soon ALL Android OS development will happen internally.

Here's why👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/
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🔐 Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why Parts of Android (ART, Bluetooth, Virtualization, etc.) are currently developed in public, but soon ALL Android OS development will happen internally. Here's why👇 🔗 https:…
Just to be clear: Android is NOT becoming closed source!

Google remains committed to releasing Android source code (during monthly/quarterly releases, etc.) , BUT you won't be able to scour the AOSP Gerrit for source code changes like you could before.
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Hands-on: Gemini Live's new video and screen-sharing features make it way more useful

I got the new Project Astra capabilities in the Gemini app on my Xiaomi 15 Ultra the other day, and I was surprised by how well it worked!

Here's a demo👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/gemini-live-video-screen-sharing-hands-on-3538786/
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💻 Android OS development is going fully private, but Google still wants help from other developers

Google has shared details on how external developers can still contribute to Android as well as what will happen to AndroidX and CI builds.

Details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-development-private-help-3539648/
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🌐 FIRST LOOK: This special version of Chrome for Android supports extensions

Chrome for Android doesn’t support browser extensions yet, but Google is developing a version that does, and I went hands-on with it.

More details + video 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-for-android-with-extensions-demo-3540132/
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