Google looks to be adding an option in Android 17 that will allow users to remap the controls for games to whatever buttons they want on a connected controller. This is something that is technically ...

Android phones and tablets come in all shapes and sizes, and they're often among the best smartphones on the market. However, even the best tech still runs into issues sometimes. A reboot is usually ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Google LLC’s Android Studio got a significant upgrade Monday with an experimental capability that can handle complex developmental tasks by just chatting with Gemini, the company’s flagship artificial ...

Following the preview at I/O 2025, Google is releasing an “Agent Mode” for Gemini in Android Studio. Agent Mode lets developers accomplish “complex development tasks” like generating unit tests, ...

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Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In ...

Google is testing a revised media player layout for Android Auto that moves the Play/Pause button. The Play/Pause button now has a larger background area and swaps placement with the Previous button.

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If you're a long-time Android Auto user, you certainly remember the good old days when the app displayed a weather widget. The next refresh killed off the widget, but Google still found a way to ...

Besides the GDC 2025 announcements, Google announced today that Gemini in Android Studio “now supports multimodal inputs, which lets you attach images directly to your prompts” for visual help during ...

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