Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

Most people — apart from during Beta 1 — haven’t had a chance to fully experience Android 13’s redesigned media controls, but you can do so today with Google Podcasts and Chrome. As of Beta 3.2+, ...

More than a year after it was announced at CES 2023, Google and Spotify are finally bringing Spotify Connect integration to Android’s media player notification. At MWC 2024, Google again announced the ...

Overview: Repurpose old Android phones as media servers to stream music, videos, and take photos at home.Using apps like Plex, Kodi, or BubbleUPnP, you can acce ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

One of the niftier features that debuted on Android Oreo is colored media notifications, which take the color of the album art or video that you’re listening to. Android Q Beta 2 takes those ...

Summary: Android 16 makes media playback more efficient by cutting down on the number of processes required for decoding a video or audio. This is achieved by using media codecs written in Rust, a ...

Android Auto is getting a visual refresh with a new 'wavy' progress bar for media playback, moving away from the flat line.

Android Auto version 13.4 is rolling out a refreshed media player UI. This update brings smaller album art, rearranged buttons, and a relocated progress bar. A new font completes the makeover, adding ...

The vast majority of Android phones can be hacked by sending them a specially crafted multimedia message (MMS), a security researcher has found. The scary exploit, which requires knowing only the ...