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🚗🔒Android Automotive will let you PIN-lock apps to keep them private from passengers Android Automotive’s new Sensitive App Protection feature lets you lock apps behind a PIN. More details👇 🔗

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Android Automotive will let you PIN-lock apps to keep them private from passengers

Google’s new Sensitive App Protection feature for Android Automotive lets you PIN-lock specific apps to hide them from passengers.

🛜📶Google may finally reverse this controversial Quick Settings change Google may finally bring back the separate Wi-Fi and mobile data toggles in a future Android release. More details in the latest Authority Insights Newsletter👇 🔗

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Google may finally reverse this controversial Quick Settings change

Google may split the Internet tile back into separate Wi-Fi and mobile data toggles in a future Android release. Here’s how we know.

✨Is Google turning Gemini into the next big Super App? Gemini may soon become your AI reading assistant, all-in-one super app, and a helper for changing Google Account settings. We explore these rumors in the latest Authority Insights Podcast👇 🔗

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Is Google turning Gemini into the next big Super App?

We review the news that Gemini is becoming a reading assistant, all-in-one super app, and chatbot for tweaking Google Account settings.

⌨️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.