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Android 11’s New Power Button Quick Controls Go Live Thanks to Home App

Kellen June 2, 2020 2

One of the features we are most looking forward to when the Android 11 Beta shows up in the near future is a new power menu that provides quick controls to smart home devices. We have seen this new Quick Controls area highlighted on a couple of different...

Google Pushes Android 11 Beta Update Accidentally, Reveals New Features

Kellen June 1, 2020 5

Google may have postponed the Android 11 Beta launch event that was scheduled for this week, but the company just gave us the goods by way of an early push of the build to a handful of devices. I know that there is probably more to come, but they just (...

Google Postpones Android 11 Beta Launch Event

Kellen May 29, 2020 25

Google announced this evening that it is postponing the June 3 event that was scheduled to be the reveal of the first Android 11 Beta. In a short Tweet, Google said that "now is not the time to celebrate," likely referring to the mass protests taking place...

Android 11 Beta Arrives in June With Special Presentation (Updated: DP4!)

Kellen May 6, 2020

The original Android 11 Developer Preview program showed that we would get several previews before a more-public beta release some time in May. Google has now revealed that the first Android 11 Beta will arrive in June with a special online presentation. You...

Want the Android 11 Beta? You Likely Have to Wait Until May

Kellen February 19, 2020

Whenever a new version of Android arrives, like we got with Android 11 today, you all start asking about how and when you can get it on your Pixel phones. With Android 11, since Google has delivered it so damn early, they have made it clear that the first...

Android Q Beta 6 Tries to Fix Its Bad Gesture Navigation, Probably Doesn’t

Kellen August 7, 2019

Because Google's full gesture navigation system in Android Q is so awful, Google is trying its hardest in the final stages of the Q beta test to try and salvage it. With Android Q Beta 6, Google has added a back sensitivity option that is supposed to help in...

Android Q Beta 6 Now Available for Pixel Devices!

Kellen August 7, 2019

Ready for what should be the final Android Q Beta? Android Q Beta 6 is here as we get even closer to the final, stable release of Android Q later in Q3 (possibly this month). Like previous Q betas, we have new builds for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2...

Google Pauses Android Q Beta 5 Update (Updated: Resumed!)

Kellen July 11, 2019

UPDATE JULY 11: Google says that a "very small percentage of devices" were being rolled back to Beta 4 after multiple reboots. They don't seem worried and have gone ahead and resumed the Q Beta 5 update rollout. Google just paused the Android Q Beta 5 over-the...