Google Bans Major Chinese App Developer CooTek From The Play Store And Its Ad Platforms
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/google-banned-cootek-adware

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Digital Wellbeing Update Adds Parental Controls
https://www.droid-life.com/2019/07/17/digital-wellbeing-update-adds-parental-controls/

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YouTube Premium and Music launch in 13 new countries, now available in more than 60
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/07/17/youtube-premium-and-music-launch-in-13-new-countries-now-available-in-more-than-60/

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An early Android 9 Pie beta also leaks for the LG V30
https://www.xda-developers.com/lg-v30-android-9-pie-beta-leaks/

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Oppo Reno Teardown! - How does a Pivot Camera work?! [JerryRigEverything]
https://youtu.be/rtjxHo22vk0

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Favourite Android Q feature: Notifications for apps getting your location in the background

I've had Q beta 5 on my Pixel 3 for a few days now. It notifies me whenever an app gets location info in the background.

I'm pretty surprised at how many apps are doing that. I just got a notification for instagram. I'm loving the ability to select "only while using the app" as a location permission....

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I got a JBL Link Bar. Here are some of my observations so far

I'm switching from a Xiaomi Mi Box S that I got on sale around last holiday season. My experience with the Mi Box was very lackluster, despite all the praise I saw it get on reviews. The performance was atrocious, CEC barely worked on it, there were a ton of bugs, and the remote was cheap, flimsy, and unresponsive. I could keep going but I digress. Needless to say, I've had a JBL Link sized hole in my living room for more than a year so I immediately pulled the trigger when it became available.
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Galaxy Tab S6 Leaked
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/07/samsung-galaxy-tab-s6.html

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Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry’s First 12Gb LPDDR5 Mobile DRAM for Premium Smartphones
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-industrys-first-12gb-lpddr5-mobile-dram-for-premium-smartphones

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Four HTC Wildfire models leak, more may be on the way
https://www.gsmarena.com/four_htc_wildfire_models_leak_more_may_be_on_the_way-news-38184.php

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Exclusive: Android Q will bring One UI 2.0, Galaxy S11 will get One UI 2.1
https://www.sammobile.com/news/exclusive-android-q-one-ui-2-0-galaxy-s11-one-ui-2-1

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Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL are now officially supported by TWRP
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3a-xl-twrp/

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Unofficial LineageOS 16 now available for the Redmi K20 Pro
https://www.xda-developers.com/redmi-k20-pro-unofficial-lineageos-16/

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how do you rock you phone ? Cased or caseless ?

Seeing as I've bought the Ceramic White S10+ it's just so hard to use it with a case because it's so nice.
I've also seen the drop tests of Ceramic vs Glass and Ceramic was a lot tougher than Glass...

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PSA about the gesture navigation

I've been using Q beta 5 since the day it came out and haven't seen anyone else mention how the back button works.

If you swipe directly perpendicular to the screen, it will go back 100% of the time and if you hold it for a second on the edge of the screen, the hamburger men will pop up.

What I haven't seen anyone talk about is if you swipe 45 degrees from the perpendicular, so swipe slightly upward or down, it will open the hamburger menu almost every time without having to wait a second.

H...

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Prolonging battery lifespan

Three months ago there was [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/a6ezxo/prolonging_battery_lifespan/), debating ways to make smartphone batteries have a longer total lifespan, essentially by not charging them full.

Meanwhile there is a new hardware tool on the market that does exactly this for Android phones: ["Chargie"](https://chargie.org/).

I have ordered one, a Founder Edition, received it after a few days, and have been using it successfully.

The biggest upside is that ...

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What should I buy Thursday (Jul 18 2019) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

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Asus Rog 2 comes with a 5800mah battery,120hz amoled and Snapdragon 855+ processor

https://www.gizchina.com/2019/07/18/asus-rog-phone-2-with-monstrous-5800mah-battery-spotted-on-tenaa/...

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Android Pie is now available for the Moto G6 Play

Better late than never I suppose, but my Moto G6 Play got the Android Pie update last night.

Proof: https://imgur.com/gallery/JmGh7Kg...

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Gboard v8.5 prepares Google Assistant integration and enhanced auto-complete [APK Teardown]
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/07/18/gboard-google-assistant-auto-complete/

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Stalkerware Apps on Google Play Installed Over 130,000 Times
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stalkerware-apps-on-google-play-installed-over-130-000-times/

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