I don’t want to embarrass you, but the top of your phone’s screen is, like, totally a waste of space. For years now, y’see, Android device-makers have been designing devices with a circular cutout ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

In addition to Dynamic Color for some of the always-on display (AOD) clocks, Android 16 Beta 4 tweaks the time in the status bar. The font has changed, with most numbers — 1 and 2 — wider than before.

Google is considering changing which icons Android will use to show notifications in the status bar, notifications shelf, and always-on display. The company is experimenting with using apps’ main ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 quietly swaps the positions of Wi-Fi and mobile network icons on the status bar. The new arrangement mirrors Apple’s approach on iOS and breaks years of established Android UX ...

As Android encourages apps to go edge-to-edge, Phone by Google has been updated with a transparent status bar. Until recently, the call screen featured a black status bar that could be quite jarring ...