Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions ...

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Google announced this week the release of the first public preview its SDK Extensions, which leverage modular system components to add APIs to the public SDK for certain previously released API levels ...

Google is opening up Gemini Nano access to all Android app developers, signaling more apps will soon gain AI smarts. Developers can experiment with Gemini Nano through the AI Edge SDK, which was ...

Google released the public version of its Extension Software Developer Kit. Extension SDK allows older versions of Android to use new features. Extension SDK is mostly aimed at developers. Google has ...

Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about the Android ecosystem. Often users miss out on features of the latest Android version because they are using older devices that are no longer ...

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Android 13’s photo picker will be available on some devices with Android 11 and 12. Android 13’s photo picker will be available on some devices with Android 11 and 12. Google is taking another shot at ...

As promised, Google has pushed out the preliminary software development kit for its mobile Linux-based software stack, Android. On top of that, the company has told us something quite remarkable. One ...

In a recent update, Google Maps for Android has leveled up the navigation and now it also shows real-time weather information. Just like its iOS counterpart, the Android app now has a discrete weather ...

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