Mishaal's Android News Feed

📨FINALLY: Gmail is starting to let users mark emails as read from Android's notifications center! Some users are seeing a "mark as read" button in Gmail notifications. I don't have it yet, but I've seen 2 users mention it. LMK if you see it! 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/gmail-mark-as-read-on-android-3572128/

📶Android 16 can warn you that you might be connected to a fake cell tower Android 16's new "network notification" feature can potentially expose when your device is connected to a fake cell tower Only some devices will support this, though. More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-mobile-network-security-3571497/

⌚️The Pixel Watch 3 is the first Android device with this precise Bluetooth tracking feature The Pixel Watch 3 supports Bluetooth 6.0’s Channel Sounding feature, which allows for much more precise location tracking Here's what you need to know👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-watch-3-channel-sounding-3571567/

📸 Android 16 lets you take proper screenshots of your beautiful HDR photos Android 16 is implementing support for true HDR screenshots, enabling you to take screenshots of HDR content. More details 👇🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-hdr-screenshots…

🕵️Android 16 wants to make your next phone trade-in process a lot faster The Android 16 release adds a trade-in mode that makes it easier for phone technicians to run device diagnostics Here's how it works👇🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16…

🔐How Google’s Find Hub could use Android 16’s Secure Lock to protect your sensitive data Secure Lock is a new feature in Android 16 that allows for remotely locking down your device into an enhanced security state Here's what that means👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/find-hub-with-android-16-secure-lock-3571055/

🪪Google Wallet is making it easier to create custom passes on Android Google Wallet now appears as a share target when sharing an image on Android, making it easier to create a custom digital pass 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-wallet-share-sheet-target-3571085/

Google is rolling out Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2.1, a minor bug-fixing update. The build ID is BP31.250523.010. It includes the following fixes: * The "Approve" button in the Device Admin settings is transparent and invisible * The lockscreen sound toggle shows as off, but sounds still play * The Android back button intermittently fails to function * Fix for a launcher crash when swiping up from the bottom

📍Google's Find Hub network is unreliable, but this simple change could fix it Google is adding a new setup screen for Find Hub that'll appear when you set up a phone, & it could get more users to select the more reliable network option. More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-find-hub-setup-screen-3570944/

🌐Chrome on Android finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, over a year after iOS Google is now rolling out the ability to move Chrome's address bar to the bottom on Android. A flag for this has been available for a while now. 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-android-bottom-address-bar-3570198/

🔎Google app is now home to your Pinterest-like personalized image feed Google is starting to roll out a new 'Image' tab in the Search app on Android, making it easier to discover images that suit your interests. More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-app-images-tab-rollout-3569923/

Agent Mode for Gemini in Android Studio is now available in the latest Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop Canary release! This new feature lets you describe a complex goal in natural language to Gemini. Agent Mode will then form a plan that can span multiple files in a project and then execute that plan under your direction. It uses a "range of IDE tools for reading and modifying code, building the project, searching the codebase and more" to complete tasks with minimal oversight. It can also interact with external tools like GitHub via MCP. You can access it from the Gemini sidebar window and then clicking the Agent tab. If you add your own Gemini API key, you can even expand its context window to 1 million tokens.