Android 12 to bring Pixel-exclusive lock screen clocks
February 25, 2021
While you could always install different themes on your Android device, you have to rely on third-party apps for that. It wasn’t until the Android 10 release that Google finally took advantage of the robust theming system from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP 10) and brought the Pixel Themes app to the Pixel Launcher. Now it looks like they will be adding more customized items to your phones, well, if you own a Pixel device. Android 12 will reportedly bring Pixel-exclusive lock screen clocks.
XDA Developers shares that two years ago, Google was already working on 3 lock screen clock presets: a text clock, a bubble clock, and a stretch analog clock. But for some reason, they eventually removed it from the SystemUI app. Before the drop of the first Android 12 Developer Preview, XDA said that the new layout and enlarged clock of the new UI for the lock screen is possibly to make it easier to swap the def
Nearby Share Now Allows Users to Send and Receive Apps via Google Play
sers can send and receive apps with nearby Android handsets without the need for an Internet connection. By Tasneem Akolawala | Updated: 18 February 2021 14:30 IST
Google introduced Nearby Share on Android sometime in August last year
Highlights
You can find it in My Apps and Games section on Google Play
Only nearby Android handsets can use this AirDrop-like feature
Google is now rolling out the ability to share apps with nearby Android handsets using Nearby Share. This feature was announced for select Android phones in August and is essentially Google s version of Apple s popular AirDrop feature. Earlier, it only allowed users to send and receive files, photos, and videos. It is now rolling out the ability to send and receive apps as well. This new added ability was announced back in December, and its rollout was then slated to be a few weeks away. Google has finally start
For years, the OIN, the largest patent non-aggression consortium, has protected Linux from patent attacks and patent trolls. Recently, it expanded its scope from core Linux programs and adjacent open-source code by expanding its Linux System Definition. In particular, that means patents relating to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) 10 and the Extended File Allocation Table exFAT file system are now protected.
As important as this is, why would banks, no matter how big, care? It s because even banks care about opposing the abuse of IP rights by patent assertion entities (PAE), better known to most of us as patent trolls. Even banks are subject to patent troll attacks these days.
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