📱Pixel phones will get a smarter always-on display that saves battery life

New code suggests Android will add a feature that turns off the AOD automatically when there's no user activity.

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/always-on-display-inactivity-detection-rumor-3609052/

🔙🏠Android FINALLY lets you flip your Pixel’s navigation buttons, just like on Samsung phones

The latest Android Canary has added a setting to change the order of the buttons in the 3-button navigation bar, as we previously reported would happen.

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/reorder-three-button-navigation-setting-3609073/

🥽FINALLY: The Galaxy XR headset from Samsung is official!

It's the first headset to run Android XR, the Android release optimized for XR devices!

Main specs:

📺 4K micro-OLED display
✨ Gemini built-in
🔥Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2
⚖️545g
🔋2 hours
💰$1800

Click 👇for EVERYTHING you need to know

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-launch-3608886/

🎨First look: Google's new 'EyeDropper' app will help you pick colors in Android 17

This new app will provide a system-wide API, allowing any app to let users select a specific color from their screen and get its value.

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-eyedropper-color-picker-3610073/

🥽Is the Galaxy XR really an Apple Vision Pro killer?

We discuss what Samsung did right with the Galaxy XR, plus the Pixel 10’s battery woes and Snapdragon's Linux support on this week's Authority Insights Podcast.

Listen 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/authority-insights-podcast-010-3609795/

🤹Google is working on another huge multitasking upgrade for Android tablets

Google is prepping a feature that lets tablet users drag an app from the taskbar and open it in a floating bubble.

More details in my latest Authority Insights Newsletter👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-tablets-drag-to-bubble-gesture-3610159/

The OnePlus 15 is official, and it indeed has a HUGE 7300mAh and the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset!

Overall, it seems like a very solid flagship phone, but I'm really curious to see how that larger battery will change things. Am I going to charge my phone every other day now?

🔗OnePlus 15 is here: One step forward, two steps back, but still better than your Galaxy

📍The Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 7 Pro are incompatible with Find Hub’s precision finding feature despite having UWB

Google confirmed to me that only the Pixel 8 and later support precision finding, though it didn't say why.

Here's what we know👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/older-pixel-phones-uwb-precision-finding-3610901/

🔁Android 16 makes app updates nearly instantaneous with this clever change

Google quietly introduced a new feature called Seamless App Updates in Android 16 that significantly reduces how long an app is unusable while it's being updated.

More info👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-seamless-app-updates-3611075/

Google is highlighting Android's scam protection features today by sharing survey data that shows Android users are less likely to receive scam messages than iPhone users.

If you use both an iPhone and an Android phone, have you noticed a difference?

🔗Android is dunking on iPhone at scam protection

Google has announced new features for Android developers using the Play Console:

- Free, Gemini-powered localization
- Auto-generated descriptions of charts on the stats page
- Alpha release of ML Kit's GenAI Prompt API
- Nano Banana integration in the Firebase SDK

...and more

🔗 New tools and programs to accelerate your success on Google Play

📱NEW: Android 17 could bring full-screen apps to your phone’s always-on display

A new “Min Mode” feature lets apps display custom interfaces on the AOD, and Google Maps will be the first to use it for navigation.

Click 👇for more details!

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-aod-min-mode-rumor-3611806/

🚗Android Auto is borrowing a key new Apple CarPlay feature

This week, Google's plans to bring widgets to Android Auto, the new AOD app integration in Android 17, and the Pixel 10's gaming woes.

Listen at the link👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/authority-insights-podcast-011-3612047/

🪙The Android IRS: How Google once tried to tax battery-sucking background apps

Android almost had its own IRS (seriously!) that would audit (no joke!) apps for their 🪫 usage.

Here’s how it would’ve worked 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/the-android-resource-economy-retrospective-3611494/

This week, Google proposed sweeping changes to Android to settle its lawsuit with Epic Games.

The changes are a huge win for Tim Sweeney, but they'll also make the Android app ecosystem more competitive. Sadly, they won't do anything to reverse the sideloading restrictions.

My detailed breakdown of all the changes👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-changes-third-party-app-stores-3613409/