Tag Archives: Android

Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to additional privacy and security information. Android app developers have until the second quarter of 2022 to declare this information, the Alphabet Inc. unit said Thursday in a blog post. Users will begin seeing the safety section in Google Play sometime in the first three months of 2022. The… Source link

Google‘s following Apple again by committing to introduce privacy labels for Android apps in the Play Store next year. Google will show these labels for the app on the Play Store under the new Saftey section. It’ll show you what kind of data the app collects — approximate or exact location, personal information, photos, and storage — and how it plans to use the data. The iPhone maker gave a glimpse of these labels last year at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), and introduced… Source link

Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to additional privacy and security information. Android app developers have until the second quarter of 2022 to declare this information, the Alphabet Inc. unit said Thursday in a blog post. Users will begin seeing the safety section in Google Play sometime in the first three months of 2022. … Source link

Bloomberg Honest Co. Jumps in Debut, Alba to Keep Raising ‘Fourth Kid’ (Bloomberg) — The personal-care products brand Honest Co. jumped 44% in its trading debut, delivering what co-founder Jessica Alba called a “pinch me moment” and elevating her platform for pitching wholesome products.The actress turned entrepreneur, whose stake in her decade-old venture could be worth up to about $130 million, said she has no plans to step back now that Honest has gone public.“I have three kids,… Source link

Bloomberg Indonesia Aims for V-Shaped Recovery After Disappointing GDP (Bloomberg) — Indonesia is setting its sights on a sharp turnaround starting this quarter as it assembles more stimulus programs to lift stubbornly weak domestic demand.Gross domestic product declined 0.74% in the first quarter from a year ago, the statistics bureau said Wednesday, worse than the median estimate of -0.65% in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Still, it represented an improvement from the 2.19% contraction… Source link

Android tablets still exist, somehow. And people may still be buying them, for some reason. All of this in spite of Google’s best efforts to simply ignore the form factor completely for the past few years, and we don’t mean just by not releasing any more of its own tablets, but also in not adapting Android to the bigger screen sizes at all. Today the search giant has suddenly remembered that Android tablets exist, and has thus announced a new feature, just for Android tablets. Can you… Source link

Google Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a new entertainment hub for Android tablets… Source link

Android tablets may have been in decline, but it seems like the pandemic made us care about them again. According to Google, in the last year, “we’ve seen over 30 percent more people start using Android tablets compared to the prior year.” To make these devices potentially more useful, the company is announcing a new feature today called Entertainment Space that serves as a portal for all the media apps you’ve installed.  In a blog post, product manager for Google Play James Bender wrote… Source link

If you have Google’s new streaming dongle, you can seamlessly continue watching a movie or show on the tablet after pressing pause on the TV—handy if you’re moving from the living room to bed—though this might not work with all streaming apps. Entertainment Space does lean into short-form content more heavily though, including YouTube shorts and Twitch streams. Of course, Google also presents content it thinks you’ll enjoy based on your viewing history, likes, and other data. You can even… Source link

Google probably wasn’t planning to reveal this until the company’s I/O developer conference on May 18th, but it looks like a cat may be out of the bag: the company’s testing a feature that should let you stop alarms and answer calls on your Android phone simply by saying “stop” — no need to pick up your phone or even say “Hey Google.” We know this because a mysterious new setting called “Guacamole” has popped up in the Google app on Android 11 for some users —… Source link