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🎧 Finally! Android 16 will let you share audio to multiple Bluetooth devices at once

A feature I first spotted and documented in the Android 15 preview is live in DP1: Audio Sharing.

Here's what you need to know about Audio Sharing in Android 16.


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🤔 How do you install Android 16 DP1?

You’ll have to flash it manually as an OTA update won't be ready until Android 16 Beta 1 in January. If you’re on Android 15 QPR2 B1, installing Android 16 DP1 will require wiping data.

Here’s how to install DP1.




🔐Android 16 will make the Photo Picker feel more integrated in apps

Apps can now embed the photo picker to make it feel like a more integrated part of the app. Hopefully this further boosts adoption of the photo picker!

More details can be found here.


🏥 Health Connect is adding support for medical records!

Android’s health platform will let apps R/W your medical records in FHIR format, beginning w/ immunization records but expanding to lab results, medications, & more in the future.


😲 Surprise! The first Android 16 developer preview is live!

Android 16 DP1 is here with new developer features like an embedded photo picker, support for medical records in FHIR format, and more.

Here’s everything you need to know.


🔎 This app brings the Pixel Screenshots experience to any Android device

A new app called PixelShot collects and analyzes your screenshots so you can search through them later, and you don't need a Pixel 9 to use it.

More details on this app can be found in this article.

By the way, for those of you who enable notifications on any new posts I make, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do to your notifications 👀


Wow: the DoJ's antitrust enforcers are "set to propose that Google uncouple its Android smartphone operating system from its other products, including search and its Google Play mobile app store," according to Bloomberg.

The DoJ has reportedly also "pulled back from a more severe option that would have forced Google to sell off Android," but forcing the company to stop bundling GMS would still be huge.

Details are sparse on what exactly this would mean. Notably, device makers can technically already ship Android without GMS (it's just AOSP in that case). However, if they want the Play Store and Play Services (which they do because that's where all the apps/useful APIs are), then they currently have to bundle Chrome, Google Search, and other Google apps as well.

The EU already put an end to the forced bundling of Google Search and Chrome, which is why there's a separate GMS license for EEA launches. But that hasn't happened in the U.S. yet, which is possibly what the DoJ wants to see happen.


A few months ago, I heard that Google was working on an Android laptop, but I didn't know if it would have Pixel branding or be released as a product.

Today, Android Headlines revealed that Google is working on a Pixel Laptop, & I believe it'll run Android instead of Chrome OS.


💻 Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad

Android is becoming Google's operating system of choice when it comes to PCs, and in a few years, I've heard we'll even see Chromebooks ship with Android.

More details can be found in this article on Android Authority.


🌐 The Pixel Tablet finally gets Google VPN support in Android 15 QPR2

Google's tablet was initially excluded from the rollout of its free, Pixel-exclusive VPN by Google service, but that's finally changed with the latest Android beta.

Details can be found here.


Google is rolling out a new feature in the Digital Wellbeing app called screen time reminders.

This feature gives you gentle reminders when you've been using selected apps for a long time. The reminder comes in the form of a pill that appears at the top of the screen.

The rollout of this feature was first spotted by Nail Sadykov a few days ago, but I and several others have just gotten it. Let me know if you see it!

(By the way, the code-name for this feature is Mindful Nudge, as discovered by @AssembleDebug.)


The "limit to 80%" charging feature has returned for Pixel users running Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1!

When QPR2 Beta 1 first rolled out, the feature was missing, but now it's back. This feature first rolled out with QPR1 Beta 2 and is expected to go live in the stable QPR1 update next month.

This feature's availability is controlled by server-side flags.

Thanks to nemy_new on X for the image!


Google confirms that the Terminal app will work in Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2!

A Googler on the Issue Tracker confirmed what I found, that the Terminal app in Beta 1 currently requires manual setup and a userdebug build.

Beta 2 will include a newer version of the Terminal app that can download the Debian image from online on regular user builds.

If you want to see what the Terminal app will look like once it's fully working, see this post.


OnePlus has seemingly fixed the issue that broke Termux with its latest ColorOS update, available now for the OnePlus 13 in China!

It'll likely take a few weeks for this change to propagate to global versions of OxygenOS for OnePlus devices, though.


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Also cool: the latest version of the CoverScreen OS app enables auto-rotation support for other apps on the cover screen of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and 6!

Apps being able to auto-rotate is one of the better changes that Xiaomi did for its MIX Flip, so I'm glad to see a third-party developer implement this feature on Samsung's flippables.

The benefit of auto-rotation on the cover screen is that certain apps like Spotify display different buttons/details in landscape versus portrait, as shown in this video by the developer.

(Again, not sponsored, always happy to S/O cool apps from indie devs!)


CoverWidgets is a new app that lets you add any third-party app widget to the cover screen of your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 or 6!

It's developed by IJP of CoverScreen OS fame. I don't have the Z Flip 6 anymore, so I had a friend test it for me, and it seems to work.

It's probably using some undocumented API in One UI to do so, and in our testing, there were some issues with some widgets not updating properly, but give it a try and let me know how it is!

(Not sponsored, always happy to shout out a cool app when I have the time!)




Android apps are back on the Microsoft Store ... but only in China!

A preview version of the Tencent App Store in the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 users on the Windows Insider Program. There are over 1,000 mobile apps and games available.

Your PC's region has to be set to China to access it, though.

Based on this line: "In addition, relying on Tencent App Store's powerful Android emulator", it seems this isn't using WSA but rather Tencent's emulator which uses Project Celadon's CaaS images with VirtualBox.

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