Mishaal's Android News Feed

💳Google Wallet can now alert you about your ticket or pass right when you need it Google Wallet is adding support for Nearby Passes notifications: "timely and relevant information" about passes when you approach a location. More details 👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-wallet-nearby-passes-notification-3560426/

🛑Developers can finally pull that buggy app update from the Play Store The Play Console finally lets devs halt the rollout of an app set to 100% rollout. Previously, some devs worked around this by setting the rollout % to something like 99.9% 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-stop-app-updates-3560252/

🏠Google Home is getting a major Gemini upgrade Smart home developers can now integrate Gemini into their products through the Google Home APIs. Plus, a new Home Summary Widget, powered by Gemini Nano, is coming to Pixel devices. More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-home-api-gemini-integration-3560338/

🔥Xiaomi has unveiled the XRING O1, a custom flagship chipset that's debuting in the Xiaomi 15s Pro and Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra. It has a deca-core CPU and an Arm Immortalis-G925 MC16 GPU. Curious to see how Xiaomi's new SoC performs! More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-xring-01-announced-3560344/

🛜Android 16 QPR1 redesigns the status bar visuals for dual SIM signal strength Instead of showing two signal strength indicators side-by-side, Android now stacks them on top of each other. Very Apple-esque. Screenshots👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-dual-sim-signal-bar-apple-3560100/

🔕Rejoice! The Android 16 QPR1 beta makes it easier to toggle Do Not Disturb mode. Thanks to the new Quick Settings design, you no longer need to expand the Modes tile to toggle Do Not Disturb mode. More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-do-not-disturb-toggle-3560071/

Using AI, you can now create an Android Bot version of yourself! Google made a new Androidify app that takes a photo of a person, generates a description using Gemini 2.5 Flash, then generates an image of an Android bot using the Imagen 3 text-to-image model. The only problem? You'll have to compile it yourself and provide your own API keys to access Google's AI models. IMO this is a missed opportunity from Google. This is something they should release on Google Play and not just as a sample for developers! Can imagine folks having a lot of fun with this and sharing their custom Bots😁 The blog post does say that the version of the app that uses the "fine-tuned" Imagen 3 model will be "released later this year," but it doesn't specify whether it'll released as a compiled version for users on Google Play or just as another sample. Would be nice to know!

✨Google is about to unleash Gemini Nano's power for third-party Android apps Google is about to open up Gemini Nano to more third-party apps, add image input, and support a ton of additional devices (not just the Pixel 9!) The documentation for ML Kit's…

🚗Ready, set, Gemini: Volvo will be among the first to install Google's AI Volvo says its cars with Google built-in will be among the first to get Gemini integration later this year. More details 👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/gemini-coming-to-volvo-first-3559943/

🚗Android Auto will soon let you browse the web and watch videos Google is opening up Android Auto to two new app categories: Video and Browsers. The company is also adding an audio-only mode to video apps in Android Automotive. More details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-weather-browser-app-support-3559888/

🚗First phones, then PCs: Now Quick Share is coming to your car Google is bringing Quick Share to Cars with Google Built-in, ie cars w/ Android Automotive + Google Play access. One use is to share map links from your phone to your car. Details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/quick-share-car-google-built-in-3559879/

🖥Google worked with Samsung to improve Android's desktop mode support! Google revealed at I/O that Android 16's enhanced desktop windowing capabilities were built on the foundation of Samsung DeX. No new details or images of Android's enhanced desktop windowing capabilities were revealed at I/O, with Google only showing a screenshot of how it looks on tablets already. But I showed some of these improvements off earlier this month.