Kellen, Author at Droid Life

Gemini Image Editing Gets a Big Upgrade

Kellen August 26, 2025 3

Google is rolling out a "major upgrade" to image editing in the Gemini app for all users. This upgrade is "designed to make photos of your friends, family and even your pets look consistently like themselves" as you ask Gemini to edit them in silly or obscure...

Google to Verify Developers Before Their Apps Can Install on Your Android Device

Kellen August 26, 2025 14

Google announced this week that it will add a new requirement for those who make Android apps and want them to work on Android devices that run Google services. The developers behind Android apps will soon run through a developer verification program if they...

Buying a Pixel 10 or Pixel 10 Pro Gets You Free $200

Kellen August 21, 2025 33

Should you have found a moment to calm down after yesterday's Pixel hardware news blitz, you may have made a decision around whether or not to buy a Pixel 10 or Pixel 10 Pro. With the regular Pixel 10 phones all arriving next week, you really could be swimming...

Google Password Manager Available on Google Play

Kellen August 21, 2025 9

Secretly, alongside yesterday's Pixel 10 series announcements, Google adding a new app listing on Google Play for the Google Password Manager. This can be installed on all Android phones, as far as I can tell, and it gives you a true and dedicated shortcut to...

ESPN’s New Streaming Service is Live at $29.99, But You’ll Want to Bundle

Kellen August 21, 2025 11

ESPN has gone live with its new stand-alone streaming service called ESPN Unlimited. The new Unlimited service is the service so many of us have been waiting for - a streaming option that gets us all of ESPN without the need for a bigger cable or streaming TV...

Dark Mode Randomly Hits Fitbit App Before Its Big Redesign

Kellen August 21, 2025 5

I know that we all read yesterday's news about a brand new Fitbit app launching in October alongside the Pixel Watch 4 with the dark mode that we should have had years ago, but I have some related news that will help us get through the next month or so....

Android 16 QPR2’s New Expanded Dark Theme Can Force All Apps to Darkness

Kellen August 20, 2025 10

In the new Android 16 QPR2 Beta, Google has added a new “Expanded” option in the dark theme settings area that “Automatically applies Dark theme to more apps for improved accessibility.” If you had any holdout apps who refused to add a properly supported dark...

Android 16 QPR2 Finally Can Lightly Theme All of Your App Icons

Kellen August 20, 2025 2

As a part of the new Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 that dropped this week, Google said they were adding an "Auto-Themed App Icons" feature. We fired up the beta and immediately looked for this first, as Google's attempt at icon theming up until this point has been...