#PlayStore
Play Store rewrote on Jetpack Compose, used up to 50% less code and gain faster rendering speed
Android Developers Blog
Play Store is about to get much more snappier than ever before. The code used for Play Store till today has been more than 10 years old and "had incurred tremendous tech debt" over the years, so the team is planning to rebuild it with a new framework, Jetpack Compose.
Regarding developer productivity, “hundreds of engineers” working on the app, and they found it "requires much less code, sometimes up to 50%" with declarative UI framework. They used the Ratings table as an example, saying it only just used 210 lines of Kotlin instead of 350 lines Java and 55 lines XML. They also mentioned animations are much easier to add too.
In performance, they said Play Store loads search page results with 40% less rendering time, with the help of baseline profiles. They also managed to "built a Modifier to easily spot these recompositions" in their debug settings, and saw jank reduced by 10~15%.
The team said it's "a big step-up for code quality and health," hopefully they can rollout the all new improved Play Store soon which should make the experience much better to use,
Play Store rewrote on Jetpack Compose, used up to 50% less code and gain faster rendering speed
Android Developers Blog
Play Store is about to get much more snappier than ever before. The code used for Play Store till today has been more than 10 years old and "had incurred tremendous tech debt" over the years, so the team is planning to rebuild it with a new framework, Jetpack Compose.
Regarding developer productivity, “hundreds of engineers” working on the app, and they found it "requires much less code, sometimes up to 50%" with declarative UI framework. They used the Ratings table as an example, saying it only just used 210 lines of Kotlin instead of 350 lines Java and 55 lines XML. They also mentioned animations are much easier to add too.
In performance, they said Play Store loads search page results with 40% less rendering time, with the help of baseline profiles. They also managed to "built a Modifier to easily spot these recompositions" in their debug settings, and saw jank reduced by 10~15%.
The team said it's "a big step-up for code quality and health," hopefully they can rollout the all new improved Play Store soon which should make the experience much better to use,
Android Developers Blog
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#News
YouTube Vanced is discontinued due to Google
YouTube Vanced
This commonly used YouTube client mod is known for their AMOLED black theme or SponsorBlock integration was discontinued yesterday. The creators of it say it's because of a Cease and Desist letter from Google outside of their control.
The download links will be available for a day until they will be taken down. The client will still work for a while so you do not have to worry about that.
As an alternative we recommend you to try out NewPipe, an OSS client of YouTube and other platforms.
Farewell Vanced, we hope for a similar alternative in the future and wish the best for its creators.
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YouTube Vanced is discontinued due to Google
YouTube Vanced
This commonly used YouTube client mod is known for their AMOLED black theme or SponsorBlock integration was discontinued yesterday. The creators of it say it's because of a Cease and Desist letter from Google outside of their control.
The download links will be available for a day until they will be taken down. The client will still work for a while so you do not have to worry about that.
As an alternative we recommend you to try out NewPipe, an OSS client of YouTube and other platforms.
Farewell Vanced, we hope for a similar alternative in the future and wish the best for its creators.
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#News #Pixel #Pay
Several Google Pixel devices on March update couldn't make contactless payment
9To5Google
UPDATE: Google has already fixed the issue.
Android 12L March Feature Drop has been released one week ago, but apparently it caused some owners not being able to make contactless transactions with Google Pay.
Google Pay will show "Your phone doesn't meet software standards" popup, which is something usually happens when your phone has been modified in some ways and resulting in SafetyNet check failed. Apparently all these reports are coming from owners that have updated to the March update and have not modified their devices in any way, but still end up getting the error message.
If you are one of the guy that faced it, it's better that you waited for Google to issue a fix instead of opting to the Android 12QPR3 beta program.
Several Google Pixel devices on March update couldn't make contactless payment
9To5Google
UPDATE: Google has already fixed the issue.
Android 12L March Feature Drop has been released one week ago, but apparently it caused some owners not being able to make contactless transactions with Google Pay.
Google Pay will show "Your phone doesn't meet software standards" popup, which is something usually happens when your phone has been modified in some ways and resulting in SafetyNet check failed. Apparently all these reports are coming from owners that have updated to the March update and have not modified their devices in any way, but still end up getting the error message.
If you are one of the guy that faced it, it's better that you waited for Google to issue a fix instead of opting to the Android 12QPR3 beta program.
9to5Google
[Update: Fixed] Some Google Pixel phones can’t make contactless payments after March patch
After the Android 12L March update, some Pixel (3a–5a) owners can't make contactless transactions with Google Pay because of uncertified ...
#A12L
Here's how Android 12L looks like when running on a desktop
Jon West (Twitter)
Google promoted Android 12L initially to make it user friendly for large screen devices, which includes tablets and foldables commonly. Well, that doesn't mean you couldn't run it on a desktop though, and some people out there have managed to bring the experience to there already.
Jon West, creator of Bliss OS and Android-Generic Project, has managed to run Android 12L on desktop successfully. As expected, the layout are pretty much similar to what Google has shown, like the dual column layout are applied to the lock screen and quick settings panel for example.
Jon said it's pretty much usable at the current state, though some minor UI bugs are still there. Anyway, it's nice to see that overall, Android 12L makes it much easier to use on a large screen device. You can check out all the screenshots in Twitter if interested.
Here's how Android 12L looks like when running on a desktop
Jon West (Twitter)
Google promoted Android 12L initially to make it user friendly for large screen devices, which includes tablets and foldables commonly. Well, that doesn't mean you couldn't run it on a desktop though, and some people out there have managed to bring the experience to there already.
Jon West, creator of Bliss OS and Android-Generic Project, has managed to run Android 12L on desktop successfully. As expected, the layout are pretty much similar to what Google has shown, like the dual column layout are applied to the lock screen and quick settings panel for example.
Jon said it's pretty much usable at the current state, though some minor UI bugs are still there. Anyway, it's nice to see that overall, Android 12L makes it much easier to use on a large screen device. You can check out all the screenshots in Twitter if interested.
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#YouTube
You can view video trannoscription in the YouTube mobile app soon
Android Police
Video trannoscription can be helpful when you want to search back for a specific part of a video. For a long time, YouTube has only make the feature available on the desktop web experience, but it's hitting the mobile app experience soon.
Once the feature is available for you, you will be able to see a new Trannoscript section with a "Show Trannoscript" button, tapping on it will display the video's trannoscription. One drawback though, you couldn't search for it directly which might be a little annoying especially if the video duration is long.
For now, the trannoscription feature is rolling out via server side to a few devices randomly.
You can view video trannoscription in the YouTube mobile app soon
Android Police
Video trannoscription can be helpful when you want to search back for a specific part of a video. For a long time, YouTube has only make the feature available on the desktop web experience, but it's hitting the mobile app experience soon.
Once the feature is available for you, you will be able to see a new Trannoscript section with a "Show Trannoscript" button, tapping on it will display the video's trannoscription. One drawback though, you couldn't search for it directly which might be a little annoying especially if the video duration is long.
For now, the trannoscription feature is rolling out via server side to a few devices randomly.
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#Android #A12L
Android 12L has a obvious status bar glitch for some Pixel phones
Android Police
Google has been pretty much messed up with Android release schedules if you don't know yet. It's nice to see that Android 12L resolved a lot of issues spotted in Android 12, but still some other bugs popup as they fixed those bugs, one of them is the status bar alignment.
If you owned a Pixel 5 or Pixel 6, you might faced status bar glitch. Seems like the developers from Google forgot to configure the status bar properly for some Pixel devices which lead to this UI issue. There are already a few users on Reddit (2) reporting the issue, saying it's happening in applications such as Snapchat, Spotify and more.
There doesn't seem to be any easy solution to fix it unless you revert back to an older version of build. Anyway, hopefully Google is acknowledge of the issue and fix it as soon as possible.
Android 12L has a obvious status bar glitch for some Pixel phones
Android Police
Google has been pretty much messed up with Android release schedules if you don't know yet. It's nice to see that Android 12L resolved a lot of issues spotted in Android 12, but still some other bugs popup as they fixed those bugs, one of them is the status bar alignment.
If you owned a Pixel 5 or Pixel 6, you might faced status bar glitch. Seems like the developers from Google forgot to configure the status bar properly for some Pixel devices which lead to this UI issue. There are already a few users on Reddit (2) reporting the issue, saying it's happening in applications such as Snapchat, Spotify and more.
There doesn't seem to be any easy solution to fix it unless you revert back to an older version of build. Anyway, hopefully Google is acknowledge of the issue and fix it as soon as possible.
#Contacts
Google Contacts adds bottom bar with new Fix & Manage tab
Android Police
Google Contacts is the latest app by Google to have a bottom tab for easier navigation.
The first tab is the good ol' contacts list page, most stuff didn't change with the introduction of bottom tab, and you still get access to the hamburger with your labels. The latter tab is "Fix & Manage," which pretty much move all the tools from the hamburger menu to this page. Meanwhile you can find the app settings in the account picker menu.
This is currently rolling out via server side and not yet widely rollout.
Google Contacts adds bottom bar with new Fix & Manage tab
Android Police
Google Contacts is the latest app by Google to have a bottom tab for easier navigation.
The first tab is the good ol' contacts list page, most stuff didn't change with the introduction of bottom tab, and you still get access to the hamburger with your labels. The latter tab is "Fix & Manage," which pretty much move all the tools from the hamburger menu to this page. Meanwhile you can find the app settings in the account picker menu.
This is currently rolling out via server side and not yet widely rollout.
#Gboard
Gboard has just reached 5 billion downloads milestone in Play Store
The keyboard application by Google, Gboard has just hit 5 billion installs milestone on the Play Store, just after Google Duo.
The record isn't really surprising, as most phone companies choose to preinstall the keyboard on their phones. Samsung is the exception here as they have their own keyboard application, hence it is why Gboard didn't manage to reach this milestone earlier like other Google applications.
Gboard has been gaining a lot of features recently, with one of them being the ability to create custom text stickers on Pixel devices (rolling out widely with March Feature Drop), more Emoji Kitchen mashup, correct your grammar mistake and many more to come.
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Gboard has just reached 5 billion downloads milestone in Play Store
The keyboard application by Google, Gboard has just hit 5 billion installs milestone on the Play Store, just after Google Duo.
The record isn't really surprising, as most phone companies choose to preinstall the keyboard on their phones. Samsung is the exception here as they have their own keyboard application, hence it is why Gboard didn't manage to reach this milestone earlier like other Google applications.
Gboard has been gaining a lot of features recently, with one of them being the ability to create custom text stickers on Pixel devices (rolling out widely with March Feature Drop), more Emoji Kitchen mashup, correct your grammar mistake and many more to come.
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Google Pixel Hub
#News #Pixel #Pay Several Google Pixel devices on March update couldn't make contactless payment 9To5Google UPDATE: Google has already fixed the issue. Android 12L March Feature Drop has been released one week ago, but apparently it caused some owners not…
#News #Pixel #Pay
Google has fixed contactless payment issue for impacted Pixel owners
9To5Google | Previous post
Earlier it is known that Google Pay isn't working properly on some unmodified Pixel devices, and Google has responded to the issue and said it should be resolved by now.
Google has fixed contactless payment issue for impacted Pixel owners
9To5Google | Previous post
Earlier it is known that Google Pay isn't working properly on some unmodified Pixel devices, and Google has responded to the issue and said it should be resolved by now.
“We are aware that some Pixel users had been experiencing an issue where they were unable to make contactless payments using Google Pay following a recent update. This issue has now been fixed and all users should be able to continue using Google Pay to tap and pay wherever contactless payments are accepted.”9to5Google
[Update: Fixed] Some Google Pixel phones can't make contactless payments after March patch
After the Android 12L March update, some Pixel (3a–5a) owners can't make contactless transactions with Google Pay because of uncertified ...
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#Pixel6
Pixel Camera Services bring in Night Sight for Snapchat on Pixel 6
9To5Google | Play Store
With March Feature Drop, you could use Night Sight inside Snapchat on Pixel 6, and in order to achieve this, Google has revealed a new app called Pixel Camera Services on the Play Store.
Apparently the service is already preinstalled on Pixel 6 devices, and some users noticed Google issued an update for the application, which "enables Night Sight via Camera2 Extensions." After installing the update, you will see a crescent moon icon in Snapchat which let you enabled the Night Sight functionality.
It seems like Google could make more partnerships and make it available for more popular camera applications too. Google listed out that you need to be on March security update in order to get it installed, but seems like the only option for Pixel 6 owners to get the app is to be on Android 12QPR3 Beta 1.
Pixel Camera Services bring in Night Sight for Snapchat on Pixel 6
9To5Google | Play Store
With March Feature Drop, you could use Night Sight inside Snapchat on Pixel 6, and in order to achieve this, Google has revealed a new app called Pixel Camera Services on the Play Store.
Apparently the service is already preinstalled on Pixel 6 devices, and some users noticed Google issued an update for the application, which "enables Night Sight via Camera2 Extensions." After installing the update, you will see a crescent moon icon in Snapchat which let you enabled the Night Sight functionality.
It seems like Google could make more partnerships and make it available for more popular camera applications too. Google listed out that you need to be on March security update in order to get it installed, but seems like the only option for Pixel 6 owners to get the app is to be on Android 12QPR3 Beta 1.
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Google Pixel Hub
#Pixel6 Pixel Camera Services bring in Night Sight for Snapchat on Pixel 6 9To5Google | Play Store With March Feature Drop, you could use Night Sight inside Snapchat on Pixel 6, and in order to achieve this, Google has revealed a new app called Pixel Camera…
#Tips #Pixel
Pixel Camera Services hinted more than 10 million Pixel6 devices are in use
UPDATE: The downloads count towards older Pixel devices too.
You knows what's interesting about the Pixel Camera Services, the downloads count. As Google mentioned it's only for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro running March security update (Android 12L), this makes the statistics far way interesting.
At the time of writing, Google didn't release stable build of Android 12L for Pixel 6 series as it is delayed, and if that's the case, that's mean more than 10 million Pixel 6 device owners are already on Android 12QPR3 Beta 1, or maybe that isn't the case, but I don't see anyone out there said they got it on their Pixel 6 running February update though.
If there's no surprise, Google could hide the downloads count very soon one day. They had did it for Security Hub as 9To5Google covered about it, but let's hope they don't this time.
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Pixel Camera Services hinted more than 10 million Pixel
UPDATE: The downloads count towards older Pixel devices too.
You knows what's interesting about the Pixel Camera Services, the downloads count. As Google mentioned it's only for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro running March security update (Android 12L), this makes the statistics far way interesting.
At the time of writing, Google didn't release stable build of Android 12L for Pixel 6 series as it is delayed, and if that's the case, that's mean more than 10 million Pixel 6 device owners are already on Android 12QPR3 Beta 1, or maybe that isn't the case, but I don't see anyone out there said they got it on their Pixel 6 running February update though.
If there's no surprise, Google could hide the downloads count very soon one day. They had did it for Security Hub as 9To5Google covered about it, but let's hope they don't this time.
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#Photos
Google Photos experimenting chips for quicker access to interact text from images
9To5Google
Google Photos already offer a lot of features which includes Lens integration, and recently Google is testing out more chip shortcuts when viewing a particular image.
Google Photos will show you options like “Copy text,” “Listen,” “Crop,” and “Markup” when you are viewing a screenshot. Google also show you "Copy text" option in images that contained clear text too.
There's also a Google Lens chip shortcut but given that it's already there in the bottom toolbar, it is pointless to have it there. Tapping on any of the chip option will directly bring you to the dedicated section. The feature is an A/B test so not everyone get to see the feature yet.
Google Photos experimenting chips for quicker access to interact text from images
9To5Google
Google Photos already offer a lot of features which includes Lens integration, and recently Google is testing out more chip shortcuts when viewing a particular image.
Google Photos will show you options like “Copy text,” “Listen,” “Crop,” and “Markup” when you are viewing a screenshot. Google also show you "Copy text" option in images that contained clear text too.
There's also a Google Lens chip shortcut but given that it's already there in the bottom toolbar, it is pointless to have it there. Tapping on any of the chip option will directly bring you to the dedicated section. The feature is an A/B test so not everyone get to see the feature yet.
Google Pixel Hub
#Tips #Pixel Pixel Camera Services hinted more than 10 million Pixel 6 devices are in use UPDATE: The downloads count towards older Pixel devices too. You knows what's interesting about the Pixel Camera Services, the downloads count. As Google mentioned…
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Pixel Camera Services download counts apparently include older Pixel devices too
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Ok, but we suddenly realised that this particular APK package (Pixel Camera Services) has exist back in Android 11 builds for older Pixel devices (APKMirror), so the download counts pointed towards 10 million+ modern Pixel devices (which we had already know for awhile) instead of only the Pixel 6 series.
Yeah, it's pretty much impossible for Google to sell more than 10 million Pixel 6 devices in just 6 months time and all of the owners suddenly opt for the beta program to get it. Although Sundar Pichai once said the Pixel 6 series saw great sales figure, but I don't think the number could reach this far either.
Google has only recently made the Pixel Camera Services app public on the Play Store listing to push an update for the Pixel 6 which will enable Night Sight in Snapchat (part of the March Feature Drop), so it caught people's attention.
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Pixel Camera Services download counts apparently include older Pixel devices too
Previous post
Ok, but we suddenly realised that this particular APK package (Pixel Camera Services) has exist back in Android 11 builds for older Pixel devices (APKMirror), so the download counts pointed towards 10 million+ modern Pixel devices (which we had already know for awhile) instead of only the Pixel 6 series.
Yeah, it's pretty much impossible for Google to sell more than 10 million Pixel 6 devices in just 6 months time and all of the owners suddenly opt for the beta program to get it. Although Sundar Pichai once said the Pixel 6 series saw great sales figure, but I don't think the number could reach this far either.
Google has only recently made the Pixel Camera Services app public on the Play Store listing to push an update for the Pixel 6 which will enable Night Sight in Snapchat (part of the March Feature Drop), so it caught people's attention.
Follow @PixelHubUpdates