#Pixel #A13 #ChromeOS
Google Pixel to support streaming Android apps on PC
9To5Google
It will soon be possible to stream Android apps on your desktop, as long as you have a browser.
Once connected successfully, you can interact with the app "natively" on the virtual display, You can see your current notifications feed in the right panel. At the top-right corner, there are options to send feedback, close the app, use back action and resize the display, meanwhile you can access your installed applications on your device in the bottom-left corner.
On Chrome OS, there isn't the need to use the web app as it is integrated with the Phone Hub already. Clicking on notifications from Phone Hub open it up in the virtual display, and you will also get a list of recent apps that you just opened. For now, it still currently lacked a lot of features that the web app has offered.
Anyway, hope to see Google publicly announcing the feature to everyone one day, so we can do everything right from the desktop.
Google Pixel to support streaming Android apps on PC
9To5Google
It will soon be possible to stream Android apps on your desktop, as long as you have a browser.
Once connected successfully, you can interact with the app "natively" on the virtual display, You can see your current notifications feed in the right panel. At the top-right corner, there are options to send feedback, close the app, use back action and resize the display, meanwhile you can access your installed applications on your device in the bottom-left corner.
On Chrome OS, there isn't the need to use the web app as it is integrated with the Phone Hub already. Clicking on notifications from Phone Hub open it up in the virtual display, and you will also get a list of recent apps that you just opened. For now, it still currently lacked a lot of features that the web app has offered.
Anyway, hope to see Google publicly announcing the feature to everyone one day, so we can do everything right from the desktop.
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#News
Android apps on Windows 11 is now available for everyone
Windows Experience Blog
A few weeks ago, it is known that Microsoft will be making the availability to install Android apps on your Windows 11 computer available for everyone soon this month, and as of today, you can now finally get to try it out without joining the Insider channels.
As long as your hardware meets the Windows Subsystem for Android minimum requirements, you will be able to choose and download more than one thousand apps and games that are listed in the Amazon Appstore. Get started by heading over to Microsoft Store -> Library -> Check for updates.
Besides this, Windows 11 also get new Media Player and Notepad apps, improved taskbars, show clock in taskbar on the second display and more. Learn more in the article linked above.
Android apps on Windows 11 is now available for everyone
Windows Experience Blog
A few weeks ago, it is known that Microsoft will be making the availability to install Android apps on your Windows 11 computer available for everyone soon this month, and as of today, you can now finally get to try it out without joining the Insider channels.
As long as your hardware meets the Windows Subsystem for Android minimum requirements, you will be able to choose and download more than one thousand apps and games that are listed in the Amazon Appstore. Get started by heading over to Microsoft Store -> Library -> Check for updates.
Besides this, Windows 11 also get new Media Player and Notepad apps, improved taskbars, show clock in taskbar on the second display and more. Learn more in the article linked above.
Windows Experience Blog
Bringing you closer to what you love with new experiences in Windows 11
As the PC continues to play a more meaningful role in our lives, we will continue to evolve Windows 11 as a connection point between people, ideas and creations
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#ChromeOS
Chrome OS Flex wants to help extend the lifespan of your computer
Google Cloud Blog | Official Website
Google has just announced Chrome OS Flex so that you can make use of your old unsupported computer. soon your old computer can get a fresh new UI, compatible to install more apps, getting regular security update and more.
Chrome OS Flex isn't any kind of virtual machine, it shared the same source as the native Chrome OS run on a Chromebook. Google also tried to make it easy to try it out, you just need to prepare a USB drive and make it a bootable USB drive in order to boot the system temporary. Once you are satisfy with the experience, later you can just install it on your device.
Currently Chrome OS Flex is still labelled as early access and may be buggy, Google said they will automatically update CloudReady devices to Chrome OS Flex once they considered it is usable as daily driver.
Chrome OS Flex wants to help extend the lifespan of your computer
Google Cloud Blog | Official Website
Google has just announced Chrome OS Flex so that you can make use of your old unsupported computer. soon your old computer can get a fresh new UI, compatible to install more apps, getting regular security update and more.
Chrome OS Flex isn't any kind of virtual machine, it shared the same source as the native Chrome OS run on a Chromebook. Google also tried to make it easy to try it out, you just need to prepare a USB drive and make it a bootable USB drive in order to boot the system temporary. Once you are satisfy with the experience, later you can just install it on your device.
Currently Chrome OS Flex is still labelled as early access and may be buggy, Google said they will automatically update CloudReady devices to Chrome OS Flex once they considered it is usable as daily driver.
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#Pixel #Pixel6
Pixel 6's fingerprint reprogramming tool is having issues
Louis Rossmann
Louis Rossmann reports that after replacing and calibrating the display, multiple people got issues with the tool as it can't find the unique calibration software for this device.
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Pixel 6's fingerprint reprogramming tool is having issues
Louis Rossmann
Louis Rossmann reports that after replacing and calibrating the display, multiple people got issues with the tool as it can't find the unique calibration software for this device.
Follow @PixelHubUpdates
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Google Pixel Hub
#YouTube YouTube PiP on iOS is no more zollotech Happy Valentine's day! For this special occasion Google has decided to end the beta feature of Picture-in-picture on the iOS app for YouTube for no apparent reason! Hope you enjoy this little gift from our…
#YouTube
iOS users are saved, PiP is back on YouTube
9To5Google
Google has decided to kick back the features deadline for another month for the YouTube Premium subscribers, to March 14th.
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iOS users are saved, PiP is back on YouTube
9To5Google
Google has decided to kick back the features deadline for another month for the YouTube Premium subscribers, to March 14th.
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#Android
Privacy Sandbox arriving on Android soon to limit data sharing with in-app advertisement
Google Blog
To better protect users privacy, Google is rolling out Privacy Sandbox to Android soon.
Google explained that, more than 90% of the apps are free on Play Store, and digital advertising is one the reason that made it possible. In order to keep the industry "healthy," Google announced several " new, more private advertising solutions" so that limited amount of data will be shared with third parties and don't use cross-app identifiers which includes advertising ID. They are also working with many developers to help improve ads privacy on Android together.
Google is experimenting with it starting from now on and will release developer previews through the year 2022. Beta release of SDK Runtime and privacy-preserving APIs will be done by the end of 2022. Google will roll out Privacy Sandbox via Mainline modules so that all Android devices will get it much quicker without needing to wait for OEMs to release a system update.
Privacy Sandbox arriving on Android soon to limit data sharing with in-app advertisement
Google Blog
To better protect users privacy, Google is rolling out Privacy Sandbox to Android soon.
Google explained that, more than 90% of the apps are free on Play Store, and digital advertising is one the reason that made it possible. In order to keep the industry "healthy," Google announced several " new, more private advertising solutions" so that limited amount of data will be shared with third parties and don't use cross-app identifiers which includes advertising ID. They are also working with many developers to help improve ads privacy on Android together.
Google is experimenting with it starting from now on and will release developer previews through the year 2022. Beta release of SDK Runtime and privacy-preserving APIs will be done by the end of 2022. Google will roll out Privacy Sandbox via Mainline modules so that all Android devices will get it much quicker without needing to wait for OEMs to release a system update.
Google
Introducing the Privacy Sandbox on Android
We are expanding the Privacy Sandbox initiative to Android to introduce new, more private advertising solutions to mobile.
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#Workspace #Gmail
Gmail will let you pause mobile notifications when you are using it on the desktop
9To5Google
If you have your Gmail opened on your desktop and your mobile is somewhere around you and also signed in to the same account, when there's a new email arrived in your inbox, you might felt a little annoyed as your phone ringed to notify you but you've already know it from your desktop. Apparently Google is acknowledge about it and they're preparing a new feature.
There's chances that you might get to see a prompt telling you that you can temporary pause receiving email notifications on your mobile. Click on Continue and you will be proceed to allow the site permission “know when you’re actively using this device." To revoke the permission, you can go to Settings > Security and Privacy > Site Settings > Additional Permissions >Your device use and remove it from the list.
The feature is rolling out to only a few users, but you can probably try manually enabling it from the site settings permission.
Gmail will let you pause mobile notifications when you are using it on the desktop
9To5Google
If you have your Gmail opened on your desktop and your mobile is somewhere around you and also signed in to the same account, when there's a new email arrived in your inbox, you might felt a little annoyed as your phone ringed to notify you but you've already know it from your desktop. Apparently Google is acknowledge about it and they're preparing a new feature.
There's chances that you might get to see a prompt telling you that you can temporary pause receiving email notifications on your mobile. Click on Continue and you will be proceed to allow the site permission “know when you’re actively using this device." To revoke the permission, you can go to Settings > Security and Privacy > Site Settings > Additional Permissions >Your device use and remove it from the list.
The feature is rolling out to only a few users, but you can probably try manually enabling it from the site settings permission.
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#Workspace #Drive
Google Drive is rolling out search chips to better filter search results
Google Workspace Updates
Earlier Google has rolled out the feature but only for those who have signed up for the beta program, and after experimenting for a few months time, the feature is now starting to widely roll out.
This is something similar to what Google has announced for Gmail. Here's some explanations on how it works. After typing the keywords you want to search for, your can use different multiple chips to refine the results. Three are the filter chips that are available: File type, People, Location, Last modified and Tasks, Shared Drive labels, File noscripts only.
The feature is available to all existing Workspace users and might take up to two weeks to appear for everyone.
Google Drive is rolling out search chips to better filter search results
Google Workspace Updates
Earlier Google has rolled out the feature but only for those who have signed up for the beta program, and after experimenting for a few months time, the feature is now starting to widely roll out.
This is something similar to what Google has announced for Gmail. Here's some explanations on how it works. After typing the keywords you want to search for, your can use different multiple chips to refine the results. Three are the filter chips that are available: File type, People, Location, Last modified and Tasks, Shared Drive labels, File noscripts only.
The feature is available to all existing Workspace users and might take up to two weeks to appear for everyone.
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#News #Pixel
LineageOS 17.1 official support come to an end, first generation Pixel devices and other devices no longer receive update
Gerrit Review
LineageOS seems to be the only ROM out there to maintain two recent Android version officially at the same time, which means it manage to extend support for over 100 Android devices out there. Google Pixel and Pixel XL are being one of the prime example, but sadly, as LineageOS is continuing to go forward, ready to ship Android 12 official build, unfortunately these two devices will no longer receive weekly update from LineageOS anymore.
It isn't just these two Google devices, other devices from various manufacturers also had been unsupported, which is sad to see. There are a total of 36 devices being dropped from the official roaster.
Anyway, LineageOS 19.0, I am personally excited to see when it's finish developed, currently the team are still experimenting with it and slowly adding back the customisations they used to offer.
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LineageOS 17.1 official support come to an end, first generation Pixel devices and other devices no longer receive update
Gerrit Review
LineageOS seems to be the only ROM out there to maintain two recent Android version officially at the same time, which means it manage to extend support for over 100 Android devices out there. Google Pixel and Pixel XL are being one of the prime example, but sadly, as LineageOS is continuing to go forward, ready to ship Android 12 official build, unfortunately these two devices will no longer receive weekly update from LineageOS anymore.
It isn't just these two Google devices, other devices from various manufacturers also had been unsupported, which is sad to see. There are a total of 36 devices being dropped from the official roaster.
Anyway, LineageOS 19.0, I am personally excited to see when it's finish developed, currently the team are still experimenting with it and slowly adding back the customisations they used to offer.
Follow @PixelHubUpdates
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#Fonts
Google announced new font Roboto Serif for easier reading
Material Design Blog
Roboto is being created back in 2011 and the Android OS is also using it as the default font too. After more than 10 years time, Google announced another new font: Roboto Serif.
Google explained that Roboto Serif font is “designed to make reading more comfortable at any size, in any format.” The font was created as a variable font with four axes:
• Weight: 100–900
• Width: condensed, regular, extended
• Optical size: with or without size, 8–144
• Grade: -50–100
You can try out and download the font over at the Google Fonts website. If you had like to learn more about the font, you can also give the handbook a read.
Google announced new font Roboto Serif for easier reading
Material Design Blog
Roboto is being created back in 2011 and the Android OS is also using it as the default font too. After more than 10 years time, Google announced another new font: Roboto Serif.
Google explained that Roboto Serif font is “designed to make reading more comfortable at any size, in any format.” The font was created as a variable font with four axes:
• Weight: 100–900
• Width: condensed, regular, extended
• Optical size: with or without size, 8–144
• Grade: -50–100
You can try out and download the font over at the Google Fonts website. If you had like to learn more about the font, you can also give the handbook a read.
Material Design
Say hello to Roboto Serif - Material Design 3
Roboto Serif - The newest member of the Roboto superfamily is designed to make reading more comfortable at any size, in any format.
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#Workspace #Docs
Google Docs smart canvas features get summaries and pageless formatting
Google Workspace Updates
Smart Canvas will soon let you summarize and create pageless format of documents in Google Docs.
When clicking on the Summary field on the left hand side of your document, you can either choose the auto-generated summary or manually insert it yourself. Meanwhile, pageless formatting in Google Docs allows you to work on large tables and images easier. This feature remove the page borders and make it a universal space to collaborate on.
Automated suggestions is available to several Workspace tier customers, meanwhile pageless formatting and the summary fields addition will be available for all Workspace users over the next two weeks,
Google Docs smart canvas features get summaries and pageless formatting
Google Workspace Updates
Smart Canvas will soon let you summarize and create pageless format of documents in Google Docs.
When clicking on the Summary field on the left hand side of your document, you can either choose the auto-generated summary or manually insert it yourself. Meanwhile, pageless formatting in Google Docs allows you to work on large tables and images easier. This feature remove the page borders and make it a universal space to collaborate on.
Automated suggestions is available to several Workspace tier customers, meanwhile pageless formatting and the summary fields addition will be available for all Workspace users over the next two weeks,
#Google
Google Search desktop homepage gain Discover-like widget cards
9To5Google
Google, the search engine company has finally added something to their search homepage so that it doesn't feel boring anymore.
There are a total of six cards being displayed on the homepage. Here's some information of what does the card display:
• Weather: Condition (with) icon + temperature. Three-day forecast on hover
• Trending: Cover image with search count
• What to Watch: Shows and movies with cover art
• Stocks/markets: Day graph on hover
• Local Events: With date
• COVID News
The cards aren't widely rolling out for now. There's also option to hide the cards if you prefer to have a cleaner homepage. Anyway, hope Google could quickly roll out this feature and probably do the same thing for Chrome's New Tab page too.
Google Search desktop homepage gain Discover-like widget cards
9To5Google
Google, the search engine company has finally added something to their search homepage so that it doesn't feel boring anymore.
There are a total of six cards being displayed on the homepage. Here's some information of what does the card display:
• Weather: Condition (with) icon + temperature. Three-day forecast on hover
• Trending: Cover image with search count
• What to Watch: Shows and movies with cover art
• Stocks/markets: Day graph on hover
• Local Events: With date
• COVID News
The cards aren't widely rolling out for now. There's also option to hide the cards if you prefer to have a cleaner homepage. Anyway, hope Google could quickly roll out this feature and probably do the same thing for Chrome's New Tab page too.
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#Android
Google will let you remove Android advertising IDs entirely soon on older Android version
Mishaal Rahman (2)
Google has earlier rolled out the ability to delete advertising ID on Android 12 devices, and soon they will be doing it for older Android versions too.
The option will be available over at the Google section in your device system settings > Ads. You will then see an option to delete advertising ID, tapping on it will bring you to another page detailing all the information. Besides that, Google will also require apps to list out
Both of these will go effective starting April 1st, and you can learn more about how advertising ID on Android works over at the support page.
Google will let you remove Android advertising IDs entirely soon on older Android version
Mishaal Rahman (2)
Google has earlier rolled out the ability to delete advertising ID on Android 12 devices, and soon they will be doing it for older Android versions too.
The option will be available over at the Google section in your device system settings > Ads. You will then see an option to delete advertising ID, tapping on it will bring you to another page detailing all the information. Besides that, Google will also require apps to list out
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID permission to query advertising IDs on Android 12 and later. The catch here is apps targeted at mostly kids won't have the permission to do that, which means no ads-targeting for kids apps.Both of these will go effective starting April 1st, and you can learn more about how advertising ID on Android works over at the support page.
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Mishaal Rahman
Last year, Google rolled out the ability to delete your advertising ID when you opt out of ad personalization on Android 12. This feature will roll out to other OS versions through a Google Play Services update starting April 2022, according to Google's support…
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#Updates #Pixel6
Google released an unexpected update for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
9To5Google
UPDATE: The new update apparently only bring in missing fixes.
Google has just released February security patch update for all supported Pixel devices over a week ago. And just today, Google released another new update only for the Pixel 6 series.
It's unclear what's changes are being made to the updated build, probably to fix the Wi-Fi issue that a few users faced earlier? No one knows for now except Google themselves. We will keep you updated about it if there's any information regarding it.
Download:
*Build ID: SQ1D.220205.004
• Pixel 6: Factory Image | OTA
• Pixel 6 Pro: Factory Image | OTA
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Google released an unexpected update for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
9To5Google
UPDATE: The new update apparently only bring in missing fixes.
Google has just released February security patch update for all supported Pixel devices over a week ago. And just today, Google released another new update only for the Pixel 6 series.
It's unclear what's changes are being made to the updated build, probably to fix the Wi-Fi issue that a few users faced earlier? No one knows for now except Google themselves. We will keep you updated about it if there's any information regarding it.
Download:
*Build ID: SQ1D.220205.004
• Pixel 6: Factory Image | OTA
• Pixel 6 Pro: Factory Image | OTA
Follow @PixelHubUpdates
9to5Google
Google releases new build of February’s Pixel 6 and 6 Pro update
Google this morning released a new version of the February security patch for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. It's an unexpected release...
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#Android #GooglePlay #PlayStore
Play Store now show the required Android OS version in the app info listing
9To5Google
Earlier Play Store has just added installation progress app icon on the home screen, and recently they quietly added the required Android version to install the app in the app info listing.
Simply open any app listing and go to App info, you will see that Google added "Android OS" section. This section simply tell you what's the minimum required Android version to install the app, to be exact it's the APKs variant. This is something what the web version has offered a while but for some apps that offered multiple APK bundles, it will only show up "Varies with device."
The new changes has already widely roll out to all recent Play Store version.
Play Store now show the required Android OS version in the app info listing
9To5Google
Earlier Play Store has just added installation progress app icon on the home screen, and recently they quietly added the required Android version to install the app in the app info listing.
Simply open any app listing and go to App info, you will see that Google added "Android OS" section. This section simply tell you what's the minimum required Android version to install the app, to be exact it's the APKs variant. This is something what the web version has offered a while but for some apps that offered multiple APK bundles, it will only show up "Varies with device."
The new changes has already widely roll out to all recent Play Store version.
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