In a new app teardown, new references have been found that might suggest that the new Digital Car Key feature may arrive soon via a Play Service update.
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A new method describes how to install Google Play Services on your HUAWEI smartphones. Read the details and find the download inside.
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Users of those devices were disappointed to see slow speeds and no one exactly knew why, but Google's put the spanner to the works.
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The issue was with Google Play Services and it’s been tanking battery performance to a heat sink. But the Mate 10 Pro is reported to have a fix in.
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The Google Play Store, which replaced the Android Market, is now five years old. And it's become more than just a smartphone apps store.
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If you're hearing about other people in your area getting Google Assistant and you still don't have it, you can rush it onto your phone.
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No need to dig through settings and match up Bluetooth codes on the Nexus 9 and Pixel C. They can instantly connect to phones on the same Google account.
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How are the age-old Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb flavors still a thing? Well, they’re not… exactly, although the former, initially released way back in December 2010 and last polished over 5 years ago, before Ice Cream Sandwich entered the mobile dessert menu, is somehow still running on 1.3 percent of active Android devices, according to the latest official count.
That’s one full percentage point over Nougat’s minuscule early November slice of the pie, and we wouldn’t be altogether shocked to see the newest OS build incapable of cracking 1 percent share next month as well.
But in case the 1.3 percent didn’t get the idea it was finally time to move on from both a hardware and software standpoint, Google will effectively pull the plug on their app updates sometime in “early 2017.”
Play services and Firebase for Android are escalating to a minimum supported API level of 14 with version 10.2.0, up from 9 in 10.0.0, helping developers “build better apps that make use of the newer capabilities of the Android platform.”
The October 2011-launched 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich is to become the oldest officially supported Android iteration in the “next scheduled release” of the Google Play services client libraries, with both 2.3 Gingerbread and tablet-only 3.0 Honeycomb, which has long fallen beneath the 0.1 percent obsolescence mark, dead and buried for good.
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We were impressed with Jide’s take on a multi-windowed desktop Android experience and were happy to see the Remix Mini debut late last year. Unfortunately, it seems as of recent that Google was not.The company has had to pull Google Mobile Services (the element that makes the Google Play Store and, thus, YouTube, Drive, etc. ...
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Android continues to dominate the global smartphone market, accounting for something like four out of every five smartphones being sold. With smartphone use as pervasive a part of our lives as it’s become, it’s understandable that government regulators end up taking a close look at Android and Google’s intentions for the platform. That kind of scrutiny has resulted in allegations of antitrust violations before, like we saw last year in Europe, with complaints about unfair Google ...
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The One M9+ is one of HTC’s latest and greatest smartphones — so much so, in fact, that it’s led the company to receive quite a lot of flack for not shipping it as its main flagship for 2015. But if you went to the trouble of importing an M9+ of your own, particularly one from China, you might have trouble downloading the familiar Android apps you’re used to, thanks to a lack of Google Play Services. Even if you manage to sideload the apk files from elsewhere, many of them still ...
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Last week we took a peek at some of the software Google was working on for Android Wear, checking out a leak that detailed the changes to come. While sharing that with you, we mentioned how the software also required a similarly not-yet-released version of the core Google Play services, version 6.5. Well, today Google’s ready to start making the latter available, detailing some of the important API ...
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Tired of all the Lollipop news yet? No? Good, because we sure aren’t. Amidst the news of Lollipop updates finally beginning to roll out to consumers’ phones, we’re also being swamped by a whole host of Material Design-influenced app updates from developers everywhere. Today we’re looking at an allegedly-upcoming Android Wear app update with Material Design, as well as a Google Play Services update that is necessary for it to work.Android Wear version 1.0.5.1549850 removes a lot of the Holo-esque design cues, removing the solid black background on the app’s ...
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Nestled somewhere between the details on the Android L developer preview and all the great stuff to look forward to from Android Wear, Google announced the latest changes to Google Play Services at I/O this afternoon. The new update, version 5.0, is already headed out to users now, so let’s take a quick look at the features that arrive with it.Those improvements to Play Games we just told you about, including Quests and that much-needed ...
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While Google app updates like the two we saw arrive for Camera and Wallet today may be the more visible way Google keeps its Android software fresh and relevant, the behind-the-scenes stuff where it makes new features available to third-party devs is arguably just as important, if not more so. Already this year we’ve seen Google deliver update after update to Google Play services, with new ...
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