VLC Media Player is not only free, but it’s also open-source and fantastic for a variety of video formats that aren’t traditionally supported on Chrome OS. For anyone who wants to watch a video directly from their thumb drive, hard drive, or SD card without needing to rely on Netflix, Google TV, or any other […]
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Square Enix hosts a massive end of the year sale on the Google Play Store
I never miss an opportunity to cover when my favorite publishers and developers host discounts on their games on the Google Play Store. Today, I found that Square Enix, creator of the popular Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series’ among others, is hosting an end of the year sale just in time for Christmas and […]
Continue ReadingThe best hope for Chromebook video editing is now Apple’s iPad App of the Year
It’s no secret that LumaFusion is coming to Chromebooks via Android at some point in 2022. How long that development cycle will take is still an unknown, but when we learned this full-featured video editor was being built for Android with Chromebooks as a primary target, it goes without saying that we were pretty pumped […]
Continue ReadingChromebook owners are using Android apps 50% more year over year
Today on the ChromeOS.dev blog, Google has revealed that on Chromebooks alone, 50% more users have engaged with Android apps year over year. When you consider the state of them since the Google Play Store was added to Chrome OS years ago, that would be kind of unbelievable, but then you have to take into […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Calendar for Android and iOS devices finally has a visual account switcher
For years now, Google Calendar has worked very different from the company’s other apps on mobile. Instead of allowing you to swap quickly between which account you’re utilizing for all of its primary tasks like creating and managing events, users have instead been forced to be very careful while creating new calendar entries to be […]
Continue ReadingHere are all of the Netflix Games that you can play on your Chromebook
Last month, Netflix revealed on its blog that it’s getting into the gaming space, and because of this, Chromebook owners can enjoy the first fruits of that labor. While there are no streaming games at this time, anyone with an active Netflix subscription can visit the Google Play Store or the Android app version of […]
Continue Reading[U] Google Play Games for PC appears at the 2021 Game Awards Show, new shortcut on Chrome OS
Update: Google has confirmed to Android Police directly the following. This keeps getting more exciting for cross-platform play! We’ll have more to share on the service and product next year. But what I can say is this is a new experience that will enable players to download and play their favorite Google Play Games on […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Play makes good on its promise to surface device-specific content on Chromebooks
If you use the Google Play Store on your Chromebook to install apps and games instead of just relying on web apps or PWAs for everything, then you’ll likely know that there are plenty of great experiences that you can take advantage of on your device. Mind you, most are not native to laptop screens […]
Continue ReadingIf the Pixel Fold is dead, Android 12L might be aimed more at Chromebooks than we thought
This is not the type of news you want to hear on a Monday. I suppose it’s the right day of the week for it, though. While I don’t share in the collective ire directed at the first working day of the week that many people seem to feel, it goes without saying that Monday’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Google Play Store will now allow you to install Android TV apps right from your phone
Rolling out now is the ability to directly install compatible Android TV apps on your set-top boxes right from the Google Play Store on your Android devices. The feature was first discovered by a Redditor who goes by the name Avigi. For this individual, you can see below that in their attempt to install MX […]
Continue ReadingSparklite is an awesome roguelike indie RPG you can play on your Chromebook
It’s not often I see Android games add popular mobile features that greatly improve the user experience for larger screen devices. It’s even less often that I see indie devs do this! The features I’m referring to aren’t particularly dependent upon the game’s budget (aside from the labor hours needed to code them in), and […]
Continue ReadingNo, you aren’t crazy: Chromecast volume control is missing in Android 12 for reasons
I’m not sure how many of you out there are on Android 12 right now, but for those who are, there is a missing element to the UI that you may or may not have noticed yet. I picked up on the issue right away when we loaded Android 12 on one of our in-house […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Fi goes anti-Watergate with end-to-end encryption update
I’m not old enough to have lived during the Watergate scandal of the Nixon era, but I was taught about it growing up. End-to-end encryption has become an industry standard for real-time communications as a result of this and other past incidents, and the fact that Google Fi hasn’t had it up until now is […]
Continue ReadingAndroid 12L is coming for your large screen devices but what is it?
The 2021 Android Developer Summit took place earlier this week and with it came the announcement of a new flavor of Android that is aimed at devices with larger screens. Branded Android 12L, this version of Google’s mobile OS is being presented as a feature drop that will launch in Beta in December of this […]
Continue ReadingContinuous scrolling for mobile brings Google Search into the modern age
If you’re accustomed to browsing several pages to find what you need on Google Search using your phone, you’ll probably have noticed already that you no longer need to click to navigate between each new page of results. Google has officially rolled out “Continuous scrolling“, bringing Search into the 21st century. Earlier this year, the […]
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