You may have the most organized Android home screen with rows of apps and folders propagating across your display. However, thanks to a series of Android shortcuts, you can quickly get access to all ...

What are these hidden Android shortcuts? Before you run off selecting everything on your device, let me first define what I’m specifically referring to. The shortcuts in question appear when a simple ...

To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

Android’s home screen is immensely customizable. While users mostly focus on icon packs, widgets, and launchers, one small, incredibly useful feature often flies under the radar: your ability to add ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...

While we’re all getting mushy over Android 13 and all of the things it’s bringing, we can’t forget about good old Android 12. Right now, the Pixel Launcher for Android 12 has an on-device search ...

Google Translate support for Android app shortcuts will make it easier to get right to your next Practice mode session.

Goodness gracious, I sure do love saving seconds. And if there’s one area where wasted moments are just begging to be reclaimed, it’s within the shiny Chrome browser on your favorite Android phone.

QR codes are an excellent, if under-appreciated technology nowadays, but part of the difficulty for some has been the hurdles in scanning codes. For years, the functionality wasn’t built-in on ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...