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🛜❌Android 16 Beta 3 introduces a new Local Network Protection feature. Currently, any app with the Internet permission can communicate with devices on your local network. With LNP, apps will need permission to do so. More details on how this works 👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-beta-3-3534590/

🚨It's HERE: Android 16 Beta 3 is rolling out! With Beta 3, Android 16 has reached Platform Stability! This means APIs & system behaviors are finalized, and developers can publish Android 16-targeting apps on Google Play. One beta left! Details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-beta-3-3534590/

💻 Google just released a new Gemini feature in Android Studio! The update adds multimodal support to Gemini in Android Studio. You can now attach images directly to Gemini prompts to get insights on technical diagrams or generate code skeletons from design mocks.

🤖 New features are coming to Google Gemini, including: - Gemini can reference your Google Search history - Deep Research now uses 2.0 Flash Thinking model - Enhancements to 2.0 Flash Thinking, including new app support - General availability for Gems

💻 Vulkan is becoming the official graphics driver for Android! Android is moving to a "modern, unified rendering stack with Vulkan at its core." Here's what you should know about this big change, including details Google didn't mention👇🔗 https://www.a…

💻Vulkan is becoming the official graphics driver for Android! Android is moving to a "modern, unified rendering stack with Vulkan at its core." Here's what you should know about this big change, including details Google didn't mention👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/porting-pc-games-to-android-3534575/

🎮 Big news from Google Play ahead of GDC '25: - Play Games on PC is opening up to AMD PCs - All Android games are coming to Play Games on PC - Native PC games are now accepted, too Basically, Google is trying to compete with Steam and Epic Games! Full details on Android Authority 👇 🔗Google Play Games on PC is opening the floodgates of app support 🔗Google is turning its Play Games app for PC into a Steam competitor 🔗Google Play Games on PC is adding a handy sidebar with access to quick controls and more 🔗 Google will soon let you play Android games on your AMD-powered PC

🚨Google just confirmed it's dropping Android 16 Beta 3 tomorrow!

🖥FIRST LOOK: Android may soon add PC-like external display management tools! Google is working on new external display management features for Android, including the ability to rearrange displays and move the mouse between them. Video demo + details👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-external-display-management-3533257/

📱FIRST LOOK: Lock screen widgets are coming to phones in Android 16 QPR1! Google confirmed the news today, but they didn't share any images. I enabled the feature and recorded a quick hands-on video demoing it! Video + details can be found👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/lock-screen-widgets-on-phones-demo-3532896/

🗺Google Maps is the first app to support Android 16's Live Updates feature Google Maps will show your ETA and time to next turn in a status bar chip on Android 16 Screenshots + more details can be found👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-maps-live-updates-3532808/

🔎A huge update is coming to Google Search! Google has announced an experimental "AI Mode" powered by Gemini 2.0 that can answer more complex questions and supports multi-part queries as well as follow-up questions. More details + video👇 🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-search-ai-mode-experiment-3532243/ (ICYMI: Google will soon add a dedicated button to the Google Search widget that launches its new AI Mode. Here's what it'll look like.)