Microsoft has released a new preview version of its Windows Terminal app, which is shaping up to be a pretty powerful, customizable tool for all of the different command line interfaces available in Windows 10. That includes the basic command prompt, PowerShell, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The latest version adds support for a […]
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Android 11 Beta 2 is available
Google’s 2nd public beta of Android 11 is here, and the company says the most important thing about it is that it brings “platform stability” for developers. In a nutshell that means while some behind-the-scenes features could still change before Android 11 is released to the public this fall, all of the APIs and app-facing […]
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Android 11 is (probably) launching September 8th, 2020
This week Google is holding a “Hey Google” Smart Home Summit aimed at hardware developers, but open for anyone to check out, since it’s a virtual summit taking place online. While most of the news out of the summit has involved new features coming to Google Assistant-enabled devices, the folks at Android Police noticed that […]
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Google makes some Android 11 features optional (not every phone will have them)
Android 11 is coming later this year, and it brings a bunch of new features for smartphones, tablets, and other devices. But it looks like there’s a good chance that not every device running Android 11 will have all of those new features. The folks at xda-developers report that a couple of big features are […]
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Google releases Android 11 preview for Android TV (and confirms a new dongle is on the way)
Comments Off on Google releases Android 11 preview for Android TV (and confirms a new dongle is on the way)Android 11 is coming this fall to smartphones, tablets and other devices. And now it looks like an updated version of Android TV based on Android 11 is also on the horizon. Google has released the first Android 11 Developer Preview for Android TV. It’s designed to run on Google’s ADT-3 developer device and not […]
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Lilbits 6-14-2020: Chromecast of the future?
Less than two weeks after xda-developers posted images of a new Google-branded Android TV device that looks like it could be a next-gen Chromecast, the site has a new report that gives us an idea of what kind of specs the media streaming dongle will have. Basically you can expect the same sort of hardware […]
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Google releases Android 11 beta for Pixel 2 and later
Google may have cancelled its Android 11 Beta Launch Show event, but the company only postponed the release of Android 11 Beta by a week. The first stable version of Android 11 is scheduled to launch later this year, but now that the operating system has reached beta status, Google is ready to highlight most […]
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Lilbits 5-30-2020: Android 11 beta postponed, WD sued for deceptive hard drives, and One GX pre-orders begin in China
6 Comments on Lilbits 5-30-2020: Android 11 beta postponed, WD sued for deceptive hard drives, and One GX pre-orders begin in ChinaGoogle had scheduled an Android 11 Beta Launch Show for June 3rd, but now the company says it’s postponing that event and the beta release of Android 11, because “now is not the time to celebrate.” Meanwhile, Western Digital is facing a lawsuit over its decision to use technology in some hard drives that may […]
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Android 11 to bring support for resizable picture-in-picture mode (among other things)
Google brought picture-in-picture support to Android starting with Android 8.0. This lets you, for example, keep watching a YouTube video in a small screen while you navigate away from the YouTube app and open the home screen or other apps. Up until now, you could move that picture-in-picture window around… but you couldn’t change its […]
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Android 11 Developer Preview 4 is out today, beta coming June 3
Google is pushing back its Android 11 release schedule by about a month — which means the first beta is coming on June 3rd. The company has scheduled an Android 11: The Beta Launch Show online event for that day, since this year’s Google I/O developer conference has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]