Google cut janky scrolling on Chrome for Android by 48% between 2023 and 2026, the company announced on the Chrome Developer Blog. The improvement came from architectural changes like Input Vizard, wh…
IFTTT, the automation platform that connects apps, devices, and services without coding, earns an Editors' Choice award for productivity. The service offers a free version limited to two applets, whil…
Chrome 155 on Android will replace intrusive notification prompts with small, unobtrusive pop-ups that automatically disappear if ignored, Google announced in a Chrome for Developers blog post. The ch…
A developer argues that Android, not the desktop, is the natural home for AI agents, because phones already have the authenticated sessions and background execution primitives that real workflows need…
Google's Gemini digital assistant is allowing attackers to bypass the Android lock screen, according to multiple reports received by The Register. Users can access features such as sending SMS or What…
Google Play Protect, launched in 2017, detected over 27 million new malicious apps in 2025 and blocked 266 million side-loading installation attempts of risky apps, according to Google. Disabling the …
Google's Gemini AI can locate specific photos in Google Photos by searching with natural language prompts, such as finding all pet pictures or images of pink flowers, after users upload their media an…
The European Commission has issued binding measures requiring Google to give third-party AI services equal access to Android features and to share Google Search data with competitors under the Digital…
Apple is set to anoint John Ternus as CEO in September, with Tim Cook becoming executive chairman, as the company fires on all cylinders ahead of the leadership transition. Apple has filed a lawsuit a…
Google has open-sourced Jetpacker, a demo travel app built for Google I/O that showcases how to integrate generative AI features into Android apps using on-device and cloud models. The app uses Gemini…
Google announced that Android apps can integrate with the platform's intelligence system using AppFunctions, enabling voice and text commands to perform tasks like expense tracking, itinerary manageme…
Google's Firebase AI Logic SDK now supports cloud and hybrid inference for Android apps, enabling developers to build intelligent features that combine on-device Gemini Nano models with cloud fallback…
A new open-source tool called Glass gives AI coding agents a closed build-see-interact-debug loop over native GUI applications, enabling them to launch, drive, and verify apps without per-step screens…
Google Photos has fully rolled out a toggle that lets users switch between classic search and the AI-powered Ask Photos experience, according to a Google community post. The toggle appears at the top …
The European Commission ordered Google on July 16 to open 11 Android features to rival AI assistants and share anonymized search data with competitors starting January 2027, under binding decisions wi…
A developer built an offline-first sync engine in Rust, using event sourcing to reconcile data between mobile devices and a backend. The engine, shared across iOS and Android via UniFFI, stores events…
A developer discovered a bug in Copilot's Android app where the text-to-speech engine vocalizes random letters and control characters instead of clean text. The issue stems from a data sanitization fa…
A developer explains how to integrate custom quantized AI models into Android apps, covering linear quantization, per-channel vs. per-tensor scaling, and hardware acceleration via NPU, GPU, DSP, and G…
Teya, an open-source AI family agent built to run on a wall-mounted Android phone, was released on GitHub by developer adgapar. The agent listens, understands, remembers, and acts across household tas…
A developer built Hands Free Notes, an Android app that uses OpenAI's Whisper model for offline speech-to-text transcription. The app processes voice notes entirely on-device, requiring no account, se…