Google is considering changing which icons Android will use to show notifications in the status bar, notifications shelf, and always-on display. The company is experimenting with using apps’ main ...

Android 15 will arrive on phones in the next few weeks. The upcoming update is creating excitement with its new features and improvements. Hints from the source code, released earlier this month, ...

Google rolled out the Android 16 Beta 1 update earlier in January. At the time, the search engine giant announced that Android 16 would bring a new feature called “Live Updates” or “Live Notifications ...

I don’t want to embarrass you, but the top of your phone’s screen is, like, totally a waste of space. For years now, y’see, Android device-makers have been designing devices with a circular cutout ...

Android is filled with all kinds of useful features, but some of them are not so well known. Many of you probably don’t know that you can enable custom notification icons on Android, and we’re here to ...

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 ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android 16 will introduce Notification cooldown, which gradually decreases alert volume from repeated app pings. It will also hide ...

Google's dynamic Live Updates notification class is fully functional in the latest Android 16 QPR1 beta. Live Updates, for those unaware, is Google's take on Apple's Live Activities. It's a new ...

“Never” is a strong word, but so are my feelings about this potential Android 16 change. This week, my colleague Mishaal Rahman revealed that Google is working on an interesting (read: horrible) ...

Google Maps has become the first app to support Android 16's new Live Updates. This lets progress-centric notifications appear prominently in the status bar, notifications panel, lock screen, and ...

Google is working on a “Rich Ongoing Notifications” API that could give Android phones a version of iOS’ Live Activities. Google is working on a “Rich Ongoing Notifications” API that could give ...