Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

Many of us have old phones shoved away in a box somewhere, and there are plenty of great ways to repurpose them. If you’ve been interested in getting into the home media server craze, you may be ...

Last time we looked at doubleTwist, the application already provided one of the best solutions for syncing your computers music and podcast collection to an Android phone. This week the folks at ...

More than a year after it was announced at CES 2023, Google and Spotify are finally bringing Spotify Connect integration to Android’s media player notification. At MWC 2024, Google again announced the ...

Summary: Android 16 makes media playback more efficient by cutting down on the number of processes required for decoding a video or audio. This is achieved by using media codecs written in Rust, a ...

A curious change in Android 16 Beta 4 sees Google darken artwork in the media player on Pixel devices. There’s no change to the media player layout, but Android 16 Beta 4 sees the rectangular preview ...

Google is testing a revised media player layout for Android Auto that moves the Play/Pause button. The Play/Pause button now has a larger background area and swaps placement with the Previous button.

Android Auto users are reporting that the media window now looks washed out. The change makes it difficult to see the white text in the window. It appears the issue may be connected to the new light ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...