Google Photos originally made the Locked Folders available to Pixel phones before expanding it to other Android devices at the end of 2021, and cloud backup has been added to the features of the software. Cloud backup for locked folders The Locked Folders prevents images and videos from being displayed in the main “Photos” grid and search, as well as in the system file picker. Existing photographs that have already been uploaded to the cloud are erased if you transfer them to the Locked Folder. Google Photo version 6.23 (via Android Police) includes strings describing how to “back up photos…
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The Android 14 Developer Preview has just started and the timeline for the software rollout has been unveiled. According to the timeline, the stable Android 14 should be coming in around July and sources have predicted the first set of phones that will take up the stable Android 14 software. With the Android 14 Developer Preview now out, XDA’s Mishaal Rahman uncovered an Advanced Memory Protection security feature for the future Android release. This is designed to keep phones secure against memory safety flaws. These are defined by Google as “Errors in memory handling in native programming languages,” and they…
Finally, the Android 14 developer preview is here and it’s arriving in the Google Pixel smartphones before other Android OEMs will even think of adopting the software alongside the features and probably with theirs as well. The first release of Android 14 is aimed towards developers rather than the general audience. The preview is intended to allow developers to test their different apps on the future iteration of Android to optimize and includes new features before the official release later in 2023. We recommend that if you are not a developer, you do not install the Android 14 developer preview,…
Android 14 Developer Preview 1 is now available, kicking off this year’s preview cycle ahead of an estimated Q3 release. Through the next several hours, we’ll go over everything of Android 14 Developer Preview 1’s new features and changes. The most recent updates will appear at the top of this list. Android 13 screenshots are on the left, while DP1 pictures are on the right. Expect 5 additional releases before the commercial debut of Pixel phones later this year. New features of the Android 14 Developer Preview DP1 preps’ Apps installed on the background list Passwords and Autofill service merged…
While Android Auto is still putting out its major dashboard overhaul known as “Coolwalk redesign”, Google is already introducing changes such as new animations and the possibility of a light theme. New animation in Android Auto’s Coolwalk redesign Animations were one of the things Google gave that made the entire experience feel new, as we observed in our evaluation of the Android Auto dashboard upgrade. Everything was smoother and more enjoyable in general. However, the firm was not finished. Shmykelsa, a Reddit user who has a history of enabling new Android Auto capabilities, demonstrated a change to “Coolwalk” that included…