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Progressive Web Apps are the future as they bring the best parts of the web to a more native experience. Now, for Android users, Progressive Web Apps are picking up the ability to take advantage of ...

On Android phones, you can create new Spotify home screen shortcuts to access the exact music you want and bypass Spotify's ...

Let’s say you’re casually scrolling through Gmail on your Android phone when a can’t-miss Kodak moment suddenly presents itself. If you didn’t know better, you’d frantically tap the Home button and ...

Google is working on a new Android feature that will let you customize keyboard shortcuts. This option isn’t live yet, but we spotted code for it in Android 16 preview builds. It’s not clear how ...

Sometimes, just saving a tap or two can make you feel so efficient, if not actually more productive. This is the aim of Android’s new app shortcuts—small, pop-up shortcut buttons that appear when you ...

Time-savers are some of tech’s sweetest treasures. Few things are as geekily satisfying as finding faster ways to get stuff done—and few places are as rich with step-slashing shortcuts as Google’s ...

The introduction of app shortcuts is rooted in the Android 7.1 Nougat update via the ShortcutManager API, which accommodates both dynamic and user-pinned shortcuts. The ChatGPT app is now leveraging ...

Google first added app shortcuts to Android with the debut of Nougat, but many apps never added the functionality. Now, there’s evidence that Instagram is finally adding app shortcuts to its Android ...

Goodness gracious, I sure do love saving seconds. And if there’s one area where wasted moments are just begging to be reclaimed, it’s within the shiny Chrome browser on your favorite Android phone.

For most of us, referring to the rectangular gadget in our pocket as a “phone” is almost an artifact from the past. Sure, our modern mobile devices can make and take old-fashioned voice calls (at ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...