👓Google Play spills the beans on what apps & games are coming to Android XR

A collection of apps optimized for Android XR headsets has appeared on Google Play, revealing things like NFL Pro Era & Virtual Desktop (!) coming to the platform.

Details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-apps-games-android-xr-early-listings-3608434/

📸 A new (artificial) era for Google Photos

Google Photos is getting a TON of new features that could change how we create and remember our favorite moments.

We dive into these changes in the latest episode of the Authority Insights Podcast.

Listen👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/authority-insights-podcast-009-3608297/

⏺️Google is preparing big screen recording upgrades for Android tablets and PCs

My latest Authority Insights Newsletter post dives into the upcoming revamp of Android's screen recorder tool.

Click the link👇to get all the details!

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-screen-recorder-toolbar-rumor-3608449/

🐧Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chip misses out on one of Android 16's best features

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 doesn’t support Android’s Linux Terminal, making Qualcomm the only vendor to not support it.

More details (including Qualcomm's statement)👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-chips-android-linux-terminal-3608648/

🐧Google’s Pixel 10 can now run Linux apps better than other Android phones

The Pixel 10 supports GPU-accelerated rendering for Linux apps in Android 16 QPR2, theoretically letting them run at near-native performance levels!

Here's why that matters👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-10-linux-apps-gpu-acceleration-3608754/

🖥Google is rolling out Android 16 QPR2 Beta 3.1!

This minor update fixes the issue that caused SystemUI to repeatedly crash when Desktop Mode was enabled.

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-qpr2-beta-3-return-3608643/

💬Google Messages is making it easier to share from your Google Photos library

Messages is testing a new media picker that embeds Android’s Photo Picker.

This lets it access your local & cloud media gallery without sensitive permissions.

Details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-embedded-photo-picker-3608788/

🔦Android’s new flashlight brightness slider now has a clever design like a real flashlight

The new 2510 Android Canary release brings a brand new UI for the flashlight brightness controls in Quick Settings.

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-flashlight-brightness-design-3608998/

📱Pixel phones will get a smarter always-on display that saves battery life

New code suggests Android will add a feature that turns off the AOD automatically when there's no user activity.

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/always-on-display-inactivity-detection-rumor-3609052/

🔙🏠Android FINALLY lets you flip your Pixel’s navigation buttons, just like on Samsung phones

The latest Android Canary has added a setting to change the order of the buttons in the 3-button navigation bar, as we previously reported would happen.

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/reorder-three-button-navigation-setting-3609073/

🥽FINALLY: The Galaxy XR headset from Samsung is official!

It's the first headset to run Android XR, the Android release optimized for XR devices!

Main specs:

📺 4K micro-OLED display
✨ Gemini built-in
🔥Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2
⚖️545g
🔋2 hours
💰$1800

Click 👇for EVERYTHING you need to know

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-launch-3608886/

🎨First look: Google's new 'EyeDropper' app will help you pick colors in Android 17

This new app will provide a system-wide API, allowing any app to let users select a specific color from their screen and get its value.

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-eyedropper-color-picker-3610073/

🥽Is the Galaxy XR really an Apple Vision Pro killer?

We discuss what Samsung did right with the Galaxy XR, plus the Pixel 10’s battery woes and Snapdragon's Linux support on this week's Authority Insights Podcast.

Listen 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/authority-insights-podcast-010-3609795/

🤹Google is working on another huge multitasking upgrade for Android tablets

Google is prepping a feature that lets tablet users drag an app from the taskbar and open it in a floating bubble.

More details in my latest Authority Insights Newsletter👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-tablets-drag-to-bubble-gesture-3610159/

The OnePlus 15 is official, and it indeed has a HUGE 7300mAh and the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset!

Overall, it seems like a very solid flagship phone, but I'm really curious to see how that larger battery will change things. Am I going to charge my phone every other day now?

🔗OnePlus 15 is here: One step forward, two steps back, but still better than your Galaxy