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LineageOS 15.1, Resurrection Remix, and more are here for the Poco F1
Xiaomi’s new sub-brand, Poco, has made a rather big splash within the Android community with the Poco F1. Going by Google’s own search volume, it hasn’t quite reached the status of the Xiaomi Redmi 5...
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Sony’s Open Devices program now supports the Xperia XZ2 and XZ3
Sony Mobile may not be making as much as other OEMs like Samsung, but they have worked with the open source community quite a bit. In the Android community, we have seen this in a number of ways with...
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Google will reduce the volume of the end call beep after many user requests
There are many versions of Android that some members of the community refer to as “stock Android.” Some believe that stock Android is the vanilla Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code that Google...
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“Dynamic Android” may let developers test an AOSP GSI on any Android Q device
Thanks to Project Treble, smartphone device makers have delivered Android Pie software updates faster than they were able to do so for the Android Oreo update, at least for flagship smartphones. Google...
View ArticleExynos Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ can now taste the AOSP-based Pixel Experience...
Samsung is sweating it hard to improve its custom UI to be more user-friendly and less cluttered. The new One UI is part of that endeavor and the stable version of the software is already available for...
View Article[Update: It Boots!] A developer is working on turning a Nintendo Switch into...
Update 1 (2/24/19 @ 11:28 AM ET): A developer working on the project has posted a video on Twitter showing the Nintendo Switch booting into a fresh build of AOSP. More details below. The Nintendo...
View ArticleLineageOS 16 based on Android Pie is here for the Xiaomi POCO F1, OnePlus...
The custom ROM ecosystem is rather large and diverse, but if there’s one custom ROM that we could consider to be “the biggest” of them all, then that would be LineageOS. With almost 1.8 million active...
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Latest custom AOSP GSI adds support for the Xiaomi Mi 9’s in-display...
Newer technologies are always exciting. Things like bezel-less displays (and their various approaches to implementing a front-facing camera), in-display fingerprint scanners, and 3D face scanning...
View ArticleAT&T’s fake 5GE icon has been added to AOSP
AT&T’s misleading “5GE” campaign became part of Android when Samsung phones that were updated to Android Pie and One UI began showing the 5GE icon in the status bar. This was a dishonest practice...
View ArticleThe Pixel Experience custom ROM will be getting more features in the latest...
The original goal of Pixel Experience was to offer a custom ROM that was stable while also including the features that are available on Pixel devices. The scope of the ROM has grown in a number of ways...
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Google warns that ADB backup and restore may be removed in a future Android...
Setting up a new Android phone has gotten a lot easier over the years. Android Oreo‘s Autofill feature has made it much easier to sign in to all your apps, and some apps even carry over all your...
View ArticleAnalysis: How even Huawei’s use of AOSP may be in jeopardy with the US-China...
With the recent trade restrictions that were placed on Huawei, its partners such as Google, Qualcomm, Intel, and others were forced to end all future agreements with Huawei, including revoking Huawei’s...
View ArticleAndroid 10 source code is being uploaded to AOSP
Earlier today, Google released stable Android 10 to the Google Pixel family. Before it was called “Android 10,” we’ve been testing Android Q in developer builds for several months. This update brings...
View ArticleAndroid 10 gets ported to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro, Redmi 4X, Mi Max, 2016...
Android 10 was officially rolled out on September 3rd and was instantly available for the Pixel devices, the Essential Phone PH-1, and the Redmi K20 Pro. OnePlus followed the suit and rolled out the...
View ArticleGoogle is making it easier to search AOSP with a new Android Code Search tool
Android’s source code resides at the Android Open Source Project Git repositories, and by extension, where the source code for every new Android version is uploaded. While having the source code...
View ArticleOpen GApps releases flashable Google app packages for Android 10 custom ROMs
If you want to use any app that requires Google Play Services on a custom ROM, you’ll most likely need to flash a separate Google apps package or GApps after flashing the ROM. This step is something...
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Google’s Android Flash Tool makes flashing AOSP builds much easier
When Google released Android 8 Oreo, they introduced a major under-the-hood change to the way the Android OS framework and vendor drivers/the Linux kernel interact with one another. This project was...
View ArticleAndroid 11’s “Share to Print” feature will make it easier to print images and...
Back in 2017, Google introduced a built-in print service on Android Oreo for printers that support the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). Before that, users had to search for third-party print services...
View ArticleASUS rolls out an AOSP-based Android 10 beta for the ZenFone Max M2
Following the rollout of an AOSP-based Android 10 beta for the ASUS ZenFone 5, ZenFone Max M1, ZenFone Lite, and ZenFone Live L1/L2, the company is now rolling out a similar beta build for the ZenFone...
View ArticleAndroid 11 adds 84 new mappings for Xbox, Razer, PDP, Mad Catz, and other...
Something you may not know about your Android phone is that it can likely connect to a gaming controller that wasn’t designed for it. There are hundreds of different gaming controllers on the market...
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