Liliputing

Visual Task Switcher for Android shows previews of running apps

Google Android doesn’t really come with an app switching utility. You can press and hold the Home button to bring up a list of recently launched apps, but it doesn’t let you know which are currently ...
Liliputing

SmartBar for Android is a quick app switcher, killer, and system info utility

SmartBar is a free task manager for Google Android. That might sound a bit underwhelming, but SmartBar is actually pretty impressive thanks to its wide array of features and customizable options. At ...
Android Authority

Android's media output switcher could get its first big redesign since Android 11

Google is testing a new design for the media output switcher in Android 16 Beta 4, updating a UI largely unchanged since its Android 11 debut. Notable changes include moving the “connect a device” ...
Android Authority

Google Maps users are starting to see the new account switcher on Android

Users are starting to see the new Google account switcher in Maps on Android. The redesign brings the UI closer to what you see on the web. Since August 2024, we have been keeping tabs on a new ...
Android Police

Google is redesigning one of the Play Store's most important menus

Dallas was working on cars at a Honda dealership rocking a MyTouch 4G when Artem and the gang started Android Police. It was this very website that got him into Android in the first place — he'd sneak ...
9to5google

The fullscreen Google Account switcher on Android is just bad

Google is currently in the process of redesigning the Account switcher in the top-right corner of every first-party Android app to go fullscreen. It looks to be aligned with Material 3 Expressive, but ...