The System UI Tuner in the Android O Developer Preview has introduced new ways to customize the navigation bar of your device. The navigation bar is the panel at the bottom of a number of Android ...

First, you will need a phone running Android Marshmallow or newer, so any device purchased after 2015 should do just fine. To open up System UI Tuner, pull down the notification tab from the top of ...

You can do a lot with Android. Google’s mobile OS is famously open to customization, and plenty of apps take advantage of that fact. But you might not know that Google itself keeps a few settings ...

Despite having a reputation for customizability, vanilla Android has always had a couple corners where the OS is bland and disappointingly devoid of customization options. Unless your device was ...

Android O was released today, in the form of its first developer preview. And while Google did indeed announce quite a few changes to this version of Android, there are still quite a few changes that ...

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The first Android N dev preview dropped last week, and since then, we’ve been digging in to the new operating system to find out what’s new. We’ve already covered the biggest changes, but here’s a ...

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Android is the most widely used operating system in the global smartphone market, leaps above iOS. Granted, a number of manufacturers use Android; iOS is exclusive to iPhones, which explains Android's ...

The obvious flagship feature with this release is the addition of split-screen multitasking for phones and tablets. Google’s calls it multi-window support, and it allows you to run two apps at the ...

You must already know that Android is an open system, which allows its users a high degree of customization options in devices that run it. Aside from custom ROMs, the Developer Options menu, and ...