Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. First Android P dev preview tipped for this month, might feature preemptive call-blocking June 20, 2025 Even though some carriers put limitations on it, you canblock specific phone numberson Android. If a new set of commits spotted byXDA Developersare any indication, Android P might preemptively block certaintypesof phone numbers. According to the strings found in the commits, you may block numbers that are not in your contacts list, show up as private, are from a pay phone, and do not have any caller ID information....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Former Essential employees are building a startup called OSOM Products August 20, 2025 It was only earlier this year that Essential, Android creator Andy Rubin’s phone startup,shut down, but it seems something good could still come out of a company that ended up mired in controversy. AsAndroid Policepoints out, Jason Keats, the former head of R&D at Essential, has been building a company called OSOM Products since February....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S20 Plus Snapdragon vs Exynos: How big is the difference? June 19, 2025 Samsung’s Galaxy S phones set the tone for the year’s Android flagships. The S20 lineup is no exception. We’ve already covered theGalaxy S20 UltraandS20 Plusin-depth, and they are, without a doubt, incredibly powerful phones as far as performance, imaging, and design are concerned. However, like every year, your experience will vary quite a bit depending on your geographic location....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Get Google’s help launching your app with Start on Android August 13, 2025 If you’re a first-time app developer, you might feel a little overwhelmed with the process of getting your product on theGoogle Play Store. Well, Google is here to help! With theStart on Androidprogram, app developers can get help directly fromGooglefor getting their idea ready for the big leagues....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant smart displays will soon finally get access to web pages July 06, 2025 If you own a Google Assistant-poweredsmart display, such as theGoogle Nest Hub, you know you can do a lot of cool stuff with it. One thing you can’t do, though, is read web pages, which would seem to be fundamental. Thankfully, smart display web pages are finally coming to Google-supported devices in the future....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google leaks the Nest Hub Max: 10-inch smart display with camera July 09, 2025 Last year, Google had to deal with a massive early leak of theGoogle Pixel 3, with multiple prototypessold on the black marketin Europe. Today, though, Google is dealing with a different kind of leak: the leak of the as-yet-unannouncedNest Hub Max. The leak (first spotted byAndroid Police) originates from the “Connected Home” section of the Google Store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Now on Tap is getting quick actions and nearby place suggestions August 06, 2025 Let’s face it:Google Now on Taphasn’t been the most popular Android feature in recent years. While it can be convenient at times, more often than not Now on Tap is overlooked and ignored. Google is clearly working hard to bring more functionality to the feature, though, especially over the past few weeks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google posts info on which Chromebooks can or will run Android apps June 11, 2025 As you may know, Google announced in May 2016 that manyChromebooksand other devices that use the company’sChrome OSoperating systemwould soon be able to run Android appsfrom the Google Play Store. Since that announcement at Google I/O nearly a year ago, the company has been slow to add that promised support to those older Chromebooks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s Project Stream beta to end Jan. 15, AMD Radeon GPUs used for gaming service July 01, 2025 Google launched a public best test ofProject Stream, its PC game streaming service,back in October 2018. It allowed people to stream and play the full version of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey at 1080p/60fps in the Chrome web browser either on their PC or a low-end Chromebook....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how Google Phone app’s call recording feature works June 21, 2025 Google hasn’t made it easy to get call recording functionality on Android phones in recent years, butmore and more evidencepoints to the feature landing in the Google Phone app. Now,XDA-Developershas enabled call recording in version 44 of the Google Phone app on thePixel 4, giving us a good idea of what to expect....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s when your Samsung Galaxy S21 phones could get One UI 4.1 August 23, 2025 Samsung launched theGalaxy S22 serieswith the latest version of its Android skin, namely One UI 4.1. Naturally,Galaxy S21users have been wondering when their devices will get the updated software. It looks like the wait won’t be long now. Also see:One UI guide — Everything you need to know about Samsung’s Android skin...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to call a function in Python Jun 25, 2025 In the last postintroducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, you need to understand functions! In this post, we’ll discuss the Python function call. What is a Python function call?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HP’s Chromebox G2 features the latest Intel processor and up to 16 GB of RAM June 02, 2025 After already unveiling apair of Chromebooks, HP isn’t quite done withGoogle‘s Chrome OS, as the company announced the sequel to 2014’s Chromebox, the Chromebox G2. The Chromebox G2’s exterior is relatively unassuming, and we wouldn’t blame you if you confused it with the Apple TV....