Android Pie (Android 9) added a new screenshot shortcut so that it is very easy to take screenshots in smartphones with Android Pie. This Android Pie guide explains where to find the screenshot shortcut in Android Pie and how to… Read More
Android Pie (Android 9) introduced a set of new navigation gestures to replace the navigation buttons. Of course, there are many new features in Android Pie as explained in this guide. If you just switched to Android from iPhone, you… Read More
You will enjoy many new features of Android Pie (Android 9) once your phone is updated to Android Pie, or you get a new phone shipped with Android Pie. Although Android manufacturers may customize or cripple some of the new… Read More
In Android Ore0 8.0 and 8.1, smart text selection was introduced by adding a dynamic (smart) option (based on text highlighted) to the text selection menu. So, you can get one additional option (in addition to the normal text selection… Read More
Since Android Gingerbread, Google always hides an Easter egg in each major version of Android. In Android Lollipop and Marshmallow, the Easter egg is the flappy bird-like game: dodging lollipops or flying bugdroid (to dodge Marshmallows). The Easter egg in Android Nougat… Read More
Notification channels (notification categories) in Android Oreo give you granular control of notifications. You can manage individual channels of notifications from all apps to meet your needs. You can use notification categories (channels) together with notification dots and notification snooze to… Read More
Notification snooze allows you to temporally snooze a notification and act on it later on. This is similar to snooze an alarm. When a notification is snoozed, it is not dismissed so that it will remind you again after the… Read More
Notification dots (aka notification badges), a new feature in Android Oreo 8.0 (and 8.1) quickly alerts you to unattended notifications from supported apps so that you will not miss any important notifications. In addition to notifications in the notification panel,… Read More
Picture-in-picture (PIP) mode allows you to run two apps simultaneously with one app floating over the other app. This Android Oreo feature is an addition to the split-screen view mode of multiwindow introduced in Android Nougat. PIP mode is similar to… Read More
There are two versions of Android Oreo: Android Oreo 8.1 vs Android Oreo 8.0. Google released Android Ore0 8.1 in December 5, 2017, in less than 4 months after the release of Android Oreo (8.0). There are a couple of… Read More