A curious change in Android 16 Beta 4 sees Google darken artwork in the media player on Pixel devices. There’s no change to the media player layout, but Android 16 Beta 4 sees the rectangular preview ...

Summary: Android 16 makes media playback more efficient by cutting down on the number of processes required for decoding a video or audio. This is achieved by using media codecs written in Rust, a ...

Android 16 introduces Live Updates, a new feature that elevates ongoing notifications to the status bar, but it excludes media playback notifications. This is because media apps use a dedicated “Media ...

Android’s ubiquitous but often overlooked media output switcher is getting its first major facelift since Android 11 in the latest beta release. The redesign brings both welcome improvements, like the ...

With Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1, Google has redesigned the volume slider and panel, while the media player sees small tweaks. What appears when you physically adjust the volume is still housed in a ...

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