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Google has announced BIG changes for Android Auto and Android Automotive OS, including:
- Google Cast support is coming to cars running AAOS, starting with Rivian! This’ll let you cast videos from your phone directly to the car while it’s parked.
- New car app quality tiers.
“Tier 1: Car differentiated” represents apps built specifically for cars and can adapt across driving and parked modes. These provide the best possible user experience on all different screens.
“Tier 2: Car optimized” represents apps that offer a great experience on the car’s center stack display and may have car-specific engineering.
“Tier 3: Car ready” represents apps that are large screen compatible and enabled while the car is parked. These are basically just tablet apps with no car-specific features.
Now here’s the big news: Google’s launching the Car ready mobile apps program. Google will proactively review mobile apps that are considered Tier 3 and will automatically opt it in for distribution on Android Auto and Android Automotive! This will greatly accelerate the rate of new apps launching on Android for cars, as developers of many existing apps won’t need to make any changes for their app to be available on cars. The Car ready mobile apps program will start with parked app categories like video, gaming, and browsers with plans to expand to other app categories in the future.
Lastly, some new apps:
- Uber Driver app is now available for Android Auto.
- Apps for Max, Peacock, and Angry Birds are coming to select cars with Google built-in.
For developers, there’s a new emulator for distant and panoramic displays, an emulator that lets you change the emulator screen to match OEM screen designs, and an AAOS system image for the Pixel Tablet.
- Google Cast support is coming to cars running AAOS, starting with Rivian! This’ll let you cast videos from your phone directly to the car while it’s parked.
- New car app quality tiers.
“Tier 1: Car differentiated” represents apps built specifically for cars and can adapt across driving and parked modes. These provide the best possible user experience on all different screens.
“Tier 2: Car optimized” represents apps that offer a great experience on the car’s center stack display and may have car-specific engineering.
“Tier 3: Car ready” represents apps that are large screen compatible and enabled while the car is parked. These are basically just tablet apps with no car-specific features.
Now here’s the big news: Google’s launching the Car ready mobile apps program. Google will proactively review mobile apps that are considered Tier 3 and will automatically opt it in for distribution on Android Auto and Android Automotive! This will greatly accelerate the rate of new apps launching on Android for cars, as developers of many existing apps won’t need to make any changes for their app to be available on cars. The Car ready mobile apps program will start with parked app categories like video, gaming, and browsers with plans to expand to other app categories in the future.
Lastly, some new apps:
- Uber Driver app is now available for Android Auto.
- Apps for Max, Peacock, and Angry Birds are coming to select cars with Google built-in.
For developers, there’s a new emulator for distant and panoramic displays, an emulator that lets you change the emulator screen to match OEM screen designs, and an AAOS system image for the Pixel Tablet.
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Android 14 for TV is official!
The latest version of Android TV adds new energy modes to reduce a TV’s standby power consumption. It also brings new accessibility features like color correction, enhanced text options, and improved navigation for users, all of which can be toggled using remote shortcuts. Android TV 14 also brings picture-in-picture mode support on some models. Lastly, it also brings Thread network support for some models.
For developers, Compose for TV is now available in 1.0.0-beta01, graduating several components from experimental and removing the ImmersiveList composable from the androidx-tv-material package.
As for Google TV, there’s new, AI-based recommendations powered by Gemini. Gemini will add AI-generated denoscriptions on the home screen that are personalized for you based on your genre and actor preferences. AI-generated denoscriptions will also fill in untranslated or missing denoscriptions for movies and shows.
The latest version of Android TV adds new energy modes to reduce a TV’s standby power consumption. It also brings new accessibility features like color correction, enhanced text options, and improved navigation for users, all of which can be toggled using remote shortcuts. Android TV 14 also brings picture-in-picture mode support on some models. Lastly, it also brings Thread network support for some models.
For developers, Compose for TV is now available in 1.0.0-beta01, graduating several components from experimental and removing the ImmersiveList composable from the androidx-tv-material package.
As for Google TV, there’s new, AI-based recommendations powered by Gemini. Gemini will add AI-generated denoscriptions on the home screen that are personalized for you based on your genre and actor preferences. AI-generated denoscriptions will also fill in untranslated or missing denoscriptions for movies and shows.
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Android phones are getting a theft protection feature that automatically locks them when they’re stolen!
Theft Detection Lock uses a ML model to detect when someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike, or drive away. It uses data from your phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope and checks if common motions associated with theft are detected. If so, your phone will quietly lock itself.
The Theft Detection Lock feature will roll out through Google Play Services later this year on Android 10+ devices.
Other new theft protection features include:
- Upgraded factory reset protection in Android 15. If a thief tries to force a reset of a stolen device, they won’t be able to set it up again without knowing your device or Google account credentials.
- Disabling Find My Device or extending screen timeout now requires your screen credential.
- Enhanced authentication, when enabled, will require biometrics for accessing and changing critical Google account and device settings (like changing your PIN), disabling theft protection, or accessing passkeys from an untrusted location. This will roll out to select devices later this year.
- Offline Device Lock automatically locks the screen to protect your data even when your device is off the grid.
- Remote Lock lets you lock your phone with just your phone number (and a quick security challenge) in case you forgot your Google account password and can’t access Find My Device. This will be available on Android 10+.
- Private Space in Android 15. You can hide particularly sensitive apps in Private Space using a separate credential.
Theft Detection Lock uses a ML model to detect when someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike, or drive away. It uses data from your phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope and checks if common motions associated with theft are detected. If so, your phone will quietly lock itself.
The Theft Detection Lock feature will roll out through Google Play Services later this year on Android 10+ devices.
Other new theft protection features include:
- Upgraded factory reset protection in Android 15. If a thief tries to force a reset of a stolen device, they won’t be able to set it up again without knowing your device or Google account credentials.
- Disabling Find My Device or extending screen timeout now requires your screen credential.
- Enhanced authentication, when enabled, will require biometrics for accessing and changing critical Google account and device settings (like changing your PIN), disabling theft protection, or accessing passkeys from an untrusted location. This will roll out to select devices later this year.
- Offline Device Lock automatically locks the screen to protect your data even when your device is off the grid.
- Remote Lock lets you lock your phone with just your phone number (and a quick security challenge) in case you forgot your Google account password and can’t access Find My Device. This will be available on Android 10+.
- Private Space in Android 15. You can hide particularly sensitive apps in Private Space using a separate credential.
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Neat! Google Wallet will soon let you create a digital version of passes that just contain text!
If you’re in the U.S., you’ll be able to tap the “scan to add” button then scan things like event tickets, library cards, auto insurance cards, gym membership cards, etc. to create a digital version in Google Wallet!
If you’re in the U.S., you’ll be able to tap the “scan to add” button then scan things like event tickets, library cards, auto insurance cards, gym membership cards, etc. to create a digital version in Google Wallet!
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Android's Photo Picker will finally get the ability to search through your local and cloud galleries!
This basic feature has been missing since launch, but it's good to see Google will add it soon.
This basic feature has been missing since launch, but it's good to see Google will add it soon.
Android Authority
Android's Photo Picker will finally let you search your gallery
Android’s Photo Picker will soon support local and cloud search. Currently, it shows your photos in albums in reverse chronological order.
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Android's Photo Picker will finally get the ability to search through your local and cloud galleries!
This basic feature has been missing since launch, but it's good to see Google will add it soon.
This basic feature has been missing since launch, but it's good to see Google will add it soon.
Android Authority
Android's Photo Picker will finally let you search your gallery
Android’s Photo Picker will soon support local and cloud search. Currently, it shows your photos in albums in reverse chronological order.
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Health Connect on Android will soon add some much-needed features: the ability for apps to sync more than 30 days worth of data (and do so in the background)!
More details can be found here.
More details can be found here.
Android Authority
Health Connect will finally let apps sync more than 1 month of data
Health Connect is adding support for history reads, which lets users give apps access to all stored data, as well as background reads.
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Google Pixel 9 Series Wallpapers Leaked
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Google Pixel 8 series wallpaper theme was minerals.
This year, the Pixel 9 series will feature “Swirling Petals,” described as “a swirling display of abstract florals.”
There are both light and dark versions of each wallpaper.
Unlike previous Pixel generations, this year’s wallpapers are not attributed to any particular artist, so it’s likely they were created internally at Google.
Color Options
Pixel 9: Jade, Obsidian, Peony, and Porcelain
Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL: Hazel, Obsidian, Porcelain, and Rose
Pixel 9 Pro Fold: Obsidian and Porcelain (Gold)
The leaked wallpapers can be downloaded in full resolution via the Google Drive link
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Google Pixel 8 series wallpaper theme was minerals.
This year, the Pixel 9 series will feature “Swirling Petals,” described as “a swirling display of abstract florals.”
There are both light and dark versions of each wallpaper.
Unlike previous Pixel generations, this year’s wallpapers are not attributed to any particular artist, so it’s likely they were created internally at Google.
Color Options
Pixel 9: Jade, Obsidian, Peony, and Porcelain
Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL: Hazel, Obsidian, Porcelain, and Rose
Pixel 9 Pro Fold: Obsidian and Porcelain (Gold)
The leaked wallpapers can be downloaded in full resolution via the Google Drive link
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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers
YouTube videos are suddenly skipping straight to the end of the video. Even if the video is just replayed, it skips straight to the end almost immediately. It’s a strange phenomenon and one that only appears to be happening for users with an adblocker installed.
Also, if you try to skip to a certain part of the video, it just endlessly loads in some cases.
Many believe that this is an intentional move on YouTube’s part to discourage the use of adblockers.
Note: This has been fixed on uBlock Origin.
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YouTube videos are suddenly skipping straight to the end of the video. Even if the video is just replayed, it skips straight to the end almost immediately. It’s a strange phenomenon and one that only appears to be happening for users with an adblocker installed.
Also, if you try to skip to a certain part of the video, it just endlessly loads in some cases.
Many believe that this is an intentional move on YouTube’s part to discourage the use of adblockers.
Note: This has been fixed on uBlock Origin.
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Google might have accidentally published docs about how Search works
The material appears to have been committed to a publicly accessible Google-owned repository on GitHub around March 13 by their own automated tooling.
The leaked documentation describes an old version of Google's Content Warehouse API and provides a glimpse of Google Search’s inner workings. There are over 2,500 pages in total. While this data shows what factors Google Search might take into consideration when ordering Search results, it does not reveal what the importance/”weight” of each factor is to the final ranking.
The SEO consultants believe the documents contain noteworthy details because they differ from public statements made by Google representatives.
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The material appears to have been committed to a publicly accessible Google-owned repository on GitHub around March 13 by their own automated tooling.
The leaked documentation describes an old version of Google's Content Warehouse API and provides a glimpse of Google Search’s inner workings. There are over 2,500 pages in total. While this data shows what factors Google Search might take into consideration when ordering Search results, it does not reveal what the importance/”weight” of each factor is to the final ranking.
The SEO consultants believe the documents contain noteworthy details because they differ from public statements made by Google representatives.
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Google's Latest Android Feature Drop Brings 7 New Features:
1. Edit Messages: Google Messages now allows users to edit sent RCS messages within 15 minutes to fix typos, add words, or clarify messages.
2. Effortlessly Share Hotspots and Switch Devices for Video Calls: Users can soon connect their Android tablet or Chromebook to their phone's hotspot with one tap and switch devices during a Google Meet call using the Cast icon.
3. New Emoji Kitchen Combos: New Emoji Kitchen sticker combinations are being released, enabling users to remix emojis, such as the disco ball and headphones, and share them as stickers via Gboard.
4. Google Home Devices on Home Screen: The new Google Home Favorites widget allows users to control their most-used smart devices directly from their phone's home screen.
5. Manage Smart Devices from Wear OS Watch: Users can now control their smart home devices via the Google Home Favorites tile and complication on their Wear OS smartwatches.
6. More Ways to Pay with Google Wallet on Wear OS Watch: In the U.S. and Germany, users can make secure payments with PayPal on their Wear OS watches, enabling phone-free payments.
7. Digital Car Key for More Vehicles: Digital car key functionality is expanding to select MINI, Mercedes-Benz, and Polestar vehicles, allowing users to lock, unlock, and start their cars with their phones.
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1. Edit Messages: Google Messages now allows users to edit sent RCS messages within 15 minutes to fix typos, add words, or clarify messages.
2. Effortlessly Share Hotspots and Switch Devices for Video Calls: Users can soon connect their Android tablet or Chromebook to their phone's hotspot with one tap and switch devices during a Google Meet call using the Cast icon.
3. New Emoji Kitchen Combos: New Emoji Kitchen sticker combinations are being released, enabling users to remix emojis, such as the disco ball and headphones, and share them as stickers via Gboard.
4. Google Home Devices on Home Screen: The new Google Home Favorites widget allows users to control their most-used smart devices directly from their phone's home screen.
5. Manage Smart Devices from Wear OS Watch: Users can now control their smart home devices via the Google Home Favorites tile and complication on their Wear OS smartwatches.
6. More Ways to Pay with Google Wallet on Wear OS Watch: In the U.S. and Germany, users can make secure payments with PayPal on their Wear OS watches, enabling phone-free payments.
7. Digital Car Key for More Vehicles: Digital car key functionality is expanding to select MINI, Mercedes-Benz, and Polestar vehicles, allowing users to lock, unlock, and start their cars with their phones.
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