Google Play Services

Google Settings on Android Get a “Recommended” Makeover

Kellen August 23, 2023

The "Google" section in your Android settings page is getting a makeover over night, without any sort of announcement from Google. Not that we needed one, but the new UI appears to be widely rolled out and can be accessed by you right away, potentially on any...

Google Details April’s Google System Updates

Tim March 28, 2022

April approaches and with it a fresh Google System Update, featuring fixes and changes for the Google Play/system ecosystem as a whole. To recap, what you're about to see is what is happening behind the scenes in Play Services updates and general Google Play...

Google System Update for March Improves a Bunch of Stuff

Kellen March 1, 2022

A new month is here and so is yet another Google System update that includes new goodies through Google Play and Google Play Services. The updates should start rolling out as early as today too, so be on the lookout for changes. Google can be vague with the...

The End of Support has Come for Jelly Bean

Kellen July 8, 2021

Google released Android Jelly Bean 9 years ago, if you can believe that, and has apparently been supporting it through Google Play Services this entire time. I now know that because they announced today that they are discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean at the...

Google Play Services 8.3 Makes the Google Sign-In Process Simpler

Kellen November 6, 2015

Yesterday afternoon, Google announced Google Play Services 8.3 and what we can expect to see from it. Since most of it is developer talk around integrating new APIs, I'll spare you the dirty version and instead point out the new stuff users like you and I will...

Google Play Services 7.8 Rolling Out, Includes Mobile Vision API and Nearby Messages API

Tim August 14, 2015

Google Play Services 7.8 is now rolling out for developers, continuing its mission in allowing developers to "build better apps." In this release, Google has new APIs that focus on its previously released Nearby Connections API, as well as a new API called...

Google Play Services 7.5 is Packed Full of Goodies

Kellen May 29, 2015

Not only did we get Android M (our tour!) yesterday, but Google also introduced Google Play Services 7.5, which includes all sorts of new goodness like "Smart Lock for Passwords, Instance ID, new APIs for Google Cloud Messaging and Google Cast, as well as...

Google Play Services 7.3 Allows for Multiple Wear Device Connections, More

Kellen April 28, 2015

Google announced an update to Google Play Services (v7.3) today that introduces new Android Wear and Google Fit APIs to help you all build better experiences into your apps that use either service. With Wear, Google is giving us the ability to connect...