Android Authority

Need a touch up? Android will soon let you apply effects to any video call

Google is working on a new Video Chat panel for Android that lets you apply a variety of visual and audio effects to video calls. These effects include background blur, portrait lighting, portrait ...
Android Authority

Here's a first look at Android's revamped chat bubbles feature on the Pixel Tablet

Google has been working on a revamped chat bubble experience for large-screen devices since early last year, but the feature has only now started to work. Android has had native support for ...
TechCrunch

Android Studio adds ‘agentic AI’ with Journeys feature, Agent Mode

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 ...
The Verge

Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today

Google is announcing that today, a year and a half after it first unveiled RCS chat as Android’s primary texting platform, it is actually making RCS chat Android’s primary texting platform. That’s ...
InfoWorld

Android Studio for beginners, Part 1: Installation and setup

Find out what to look for in the latest version of Android Studio, including support for Kotlin, Java 8, and a wealth of new tools and plugins. If you’re new to Android Studio, this tutorial series ...