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Android Feature Request: Save-for-Later Feature for Google Discover

Tim October 29, 2020 8

I won't waste too much of your time with this one, Google, but please, can we get a quick and easy way to save stories from the Discover feed that we want to read later? I mean, honestly, how hard could it be? For the past few years, even before Discover was...

Call Screen is Great, but Google Should Make It Easier to Search Phone Numbers of Incoming Calls

Kellen November 5, 2019

Google's Call Screen is one of my favorite new software features of the past couple of years. I probably get far too much pleasure out of sending spam bots there as a means of retaliation for messing with my day and wasting the world's time. But here's the...

Android Feature Request: Add Scrolling to Fingerprint Reader Gestures

Kellen June 4, 2018 24

Back in Android 7.1.2, Google added a "move" to the Nexus 5X that let you swipe down on the phone's fingerprint reader to expand the notification shade. It later came to the Nexus 6P and was carried forward on the Pixel line as a "Gesture" and has been one of...

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Android Feature Request: Please Allow Google Play Movies, Netflix Downloads on Android TV

Kellen March 2, 2018 30

As someone who ditched cable well over a year ago in favor of streaming all-the-things, I've found it hard to believe that services like Google Play Movies & TV and Netflix won't allow me to store any content offline on Android TV. It's actually become...

Android Feature Request: Let Us “User-Initiate” App Updates on Google Play, Just Like System Updates

Kellen February 8, 2018 18

The introduction of staged rollouts for Android apps is probably my least favorite Android happening in the history of covering this industry. While I'm fully aware of the reasoning for them to exist (act as a test group, catch bugs early before everyone gets...

Android Feature Request: It’s Time for Google to Bake-In Screenshot Scroll Capture

Kellen January 29, 2018 46

How many times have you been looking at something on your phone (an article, image, Twitter thread, etc.) and thought, "Man, I'd love to be able to capture that extra little bit that's off the screen." It happens to me all of the time, to be honest. Here's the...

Android Feature Request: Night Light Should Flip the Notification Shade to Dark

Kellen January 15, 2018 23

With the launch of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, Google updated the Pixel Launcher with a cool new trick that took you from light to dark theme depending on the lightness or darkness of the wallpaper you set. They didn't announce it, but it's there and it's...

Feature Request: Google, Don’t Make Music Listening on All Access an Individual Experience

Eric March 28, 2014 95

Welcome to another edition of our feature requests. Last time, we asked Motorola to tweak its Active Display features to be a bit more like AcDisplay, to make things a bit easier to use. Today, our request focuses on Google Music All Access. We are humbly...