TL;DR Material 3 Expressive is coming later this year to refresh Android’s look. Google’s already been previewing those changes through announcements at I/O 2025, as well as its Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1. When Material 3 Expressive finally rolls out, […]
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TL;DR Google Play just raised its pricing limit to just under $5,000. The last big increase was this time last year, going from $400 to $1,000. Only established developers earning $1M a year can qualify for this pricing level. We’d
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google I/O 2025 kicked off earlier today, and while the developer conference is set to continue through tomorrow, it feels like we’ve already gotten the lion’s share of the news. From Gemini to Android
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TL;DR Owners of the first-gen Nest Hub report recent device failures, freezing up during the boot process. Attempts to factory reset the hardware have not been successful at restoring operation. It’s possible a recent firmware update may play a role,
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is updating its multi-colored G logo for the first time in a decade. After first appearing on iOS and in beta on Android, the new G has now hit the stable release of
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is introducing a Weekly Podcast Shows chart, highlighting the top 100 in the US. Listings will be updated each Wednesday. For now this is US-only, but Google wants to expand to additional regions.
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Smartwatches didn’t just happen overnight, and we’ve seen a lot of different attempts at making them work in the years leading up to what we have now. Some of those very early efforts were basically
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 Beta 4.1 delivers fixes for a handful of extant bugs. Beta 4 itself arrived back on April 17. With plans to hit stable in June, Google doesn’t have long left to
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority This year is a special one for Samsung’s Android flagships, and back in January the company didn’t just introduce the Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Ultra, but also gave us our first official
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Last week, Samsung shared an April 7 date for the release of One UI 7 updates for existing hardware. The company revised that to April 10 for the US, before taking its entire US
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