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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Crowdfunding project of the week: MOTUS turns your phone into a pro cameraman July 06, 2025 It’s Sunday and that means we are here to talk about yet another ‘Crowdfunding project of the week’. This is where we highlight the coolest tech from sites likeKickstarterandIndiegogo. Shall we dig into today’s featured tech? Other featured projects: We are always asking people to record us doing stuff, but many of you can attest to the fact that our friends are usually pretty bad at handling a camera....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cyanogen 12 for OnePlus One coming soon, nightlies for Yureka in a few weeks June 26, 2025 The Lollipop-basedCyanogen 12build for the OnePlus One is in late testing, while the first nightlies for the Yureka will be out in the second half of February. The information was revealed this weekend on Twitter: QA/QE (quality assurance/quality enhancement) is one of the final stages of shipping software....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Daily Authority: 📱 Pixel app streaming to PC, Mac, Chromebook June 18, 2025 ☕ Good morning! Happy Valentine’s Day Boxing Day …if anyone celebrates that? Stream Android apps? A good discovery by9to5Googlepaints an interesting picture: via the latest Android 13 release,it looks like Google Pixel phones can stream Android apps to PC, Mac, or Chromebook, be it running Windows or not....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Diving into M: Launcher lets you uninstall from homescreen, lockscreen gets minor change too July 07, 2025 In ourvery first ‘episode’ of Diving into Mwe took a look at the revised app drawer found in Android M’s launcher. Now that we’ve had a bit more time, let’s talk about two other minor but potentially useful changes found in the latest version of Google’s launcher....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Downwell finally arrives on the Google Play Store August 22, 2025 Retro graphics, check. Rapid platforming action, check. New school difficulty, check.Downwellis a nostalgic game that doesn’t hold your hand but always plays fair. When it hit iOS and Steam in 2015, reviewers went nuts over it. Now that unforgiving, teeth-grinding gameplay is finally hitting Android. Downwell is game in which you, and try to keep up here, fall down a well....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dropbox getting Google Docs, Gmail and Hangouts integration August 08, 2025 Dropboxhas announced a partnership with Google that aims to reduce the number of steps users need to take to get work done. According to ablog poston the Dropbox website, the service will add integration for Google’s productivity tools later this year. This would add the ability for users to create, edit, open, save, and share Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets directly from Dropbox....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit launches its first smartwatch, and it looks great July 19, 2025 For a brief period in 2015, most of the Android Authority team used Fitbit Charge HR to track our step counts. We had a leaderboard and we tried to out-walk each other every week. It was glorious, until our interest in fitness inevitably fizzled out and most of us returned to our default activity: sitting in front of computers all day long....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fossil’s first smartwatch with LTE might come soon Aug 16, 2025 Fossil’s Gen 6 smartwatchesmight still be in limbo, but that isn’t ruling out some new models before then. Fossil haspassedan unnamed Wear OS watch (model number C1N) through the FCC, hinting at a possibleGen 5variant with built-in LTE data — the company’s first LTE-capable smartwatch. The FCC docs don’t reveal the potential Gen 5 design beyond its circular display, but it’s clear Fossil is aiming at North American users with LTE on frequencies for carriers like Verizon (disclaimer: this author also writes for Verizon-ownedEngadget)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S4 Android 4.4 KitKat firmware leaks, with white status icons and other UI tweaks July 29, 2025 A test Android 4.4.2 KitKat firmware for the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505, Snapdragon 600) has been published by the folks fromSam Mobileand is now available for download. The firmware is a test build for the open European version of the Galaxy S4 and is reportedly “pretty stable” with just a few “minor hiccups here and there”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gmail Attachment Download: Full control over where to save email attachments June 08, 2025 One of the most common problems that many users have experienced in the past and even up to the present is the inability of the Gmail app to support different file formats and downloading attachments. While most people are happy with the way Gmail handles MS Word, MS Excel, and PDF files, not quite a few are too happy about the way it deals with ZIP files and other less popular formats such as 7Z (7-Zip)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Fit gains dark mode, sleep charts in new update August 01, 2025 We’ve talked aboutGoogle Fitaround here quite a bit recently, and our one main critique is that it doesn’t have as many features as other popularfitness apps.That changes todaywith the latest Google Fit update. Google has been on a quest to bringdark modeto just about every one of its apps, and that now extends to Google Fit....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google search expands its health conditions cards, adds a few other improvements July 27, 2025 Back in FebruaryGoogle first introduced medical condition cards to Google search, giving you basic information on diseases and ailments as common as the cold or as rare as polio. Today Google is expanding on these cards by adding more detailed information, more health conditions that should total nearly 1000, an improved look, and the ability to download the information on cards as a PDF....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google updates the desktop Play Store design (Update: Nevermind) July 03, 2025 Update 3/26/18 10:30 A.M. EST:Google appears to have conceded that it may have rolled out its Google Play Store desktop update a little too soon, as the redesigned elements mentioned in the article below are all gone, as perAndroid Police. The updates were met with derision from multiple publications, the chief complaints being the images loading too slowly, the scrolling animation appearing janky, and the removal of certain keyboard shortcuts....