⌨️Android 16 QPR2 adds the ability to assign a custom keyboard shortcut to launch any app of your choice! To do so, tap "+ Add shortcut" at the bottom of the "App shortcuts" tab in the "keyboard shortcuts" menu.

It's official: Androidify now works on Wear OS! You can now create a custom Wear OS watch face with your personalized Android Bot. 🔗 Download Androidify on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.developers.androidify 🔗 Google's blog post:

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Create a custom Wear OS watch face with your personalized Android bot.

Androidify now lets you push your personalized Android bot directly to your Wear OS watch face using the new Watch Face Push API.

) 🔗Android Developers blog post w/ implementation details:

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Bringing Androidify to Wear OS with Watch Face Push

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

👀Android 16 QPR3 introduces over 160 new emoji: Here’s every single one of them The next quarterly Android update will support the 163 new emoji from the Unicode 17.0 release. Here's what's coming👇 🔗

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Android 16 QPR3 introduces over 160 new emoji: Here’s every single one of them

Google is introducing over 160 new emoji in the Android 16 QPR3 update next March. Here's all the new emoji coming to your Pixel phone!

📱Android 16 QPR3 finally brings the long-awaited GPU driver update for the Pixel 10 series With this update, the Pixel 10 now supports Imagination's August driver release with Vulkan 1.4. We'll be testing how the phone performs soon, so stay tuned! 🔗

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Pixel 10 finally gets its long-promised GPU driver upgrade, but the real test starts now

Google has started rolling out a new GPU driver for the Pixel 10 series with Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update.

📱➡️📺Google continues its desktop push by letting Android 16 QPR3 cast external displays You can finally cast the screen contents of an external display in the Android 16 QPR3 beta. More details👇 🔗

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Google continues its desktop push by letting Android 16 QPR3 cast external displays

With the latest Android 16 QPR3 release, you can finally Cast the screen contents of external displays, not just record them.

🪲Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 brings the wireless ADB fix I spotted last week The update now automatically turns wireless debugging on when your device is connected to a trusted network, fixing disconnection issues. Everything else new in QPR3 Beta 1👇 🔗

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Here's every new feature for Pixel phones in Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1

Here's every new feature for Pixel phones in the latest Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update. Read this article to see if you should install it!

📍Android 16 QPR3 finally lets you see exactly which app is tracking your location Android 16 QPR3 adds a blue icon in the status bar that you can tap to see which apps are accessing your device’s location. More details👇 🔗

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Android 16 QPR3 finally lets you see exactly which app is tracking your location

Android 16 QPR3 makes the location indicator in the status bar expandable, allowing you to see which app is tracking your device's location.

📱Here's every new feature for Pixel phones in Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 These include flashlight brightness controls, the ability to flip the nav bar buttons, and more. Details👇 🔗

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Here's every new feature for Pixel phones in Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1

Here's every new feature for Pixel phones in the latest Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update. Read this article to see if you should install it!

🔁Android 16's final quarterly beta is here for Pixel phones Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 is now available for Pixel phones. This is the first beta for the March 2026 quarterly Android OS update. More details👇 🔗

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Android 16's final quarterly beta is here for Pixel phones

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 is now available for Pixel devices. Here's how to install it (and whether you even should!)

🛰️Android is preparing a hub for all your satellite-connected apps Android is adding a new page that shows you which apps support satellite connectivity. This page is live in the latest Canary build. More details👇 🔗

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Android is preparing a hub for all your satellite-connected apps

Android is introducing a new hub for satellite connectivity that lists all apps capable of using satellite networking.