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This Week in Apps: TikTok viral hit breaks Spotify records, inauguration boosts news app installs, judge rules against Parler Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone....

Image Source: Pixabay Android 12, which is Google’s next-generation Android variant is expected to be unveiled soon. If one goes by the previous timeline, the Android 12 Developer Preview could be announced as early as February, which is when the Developer Preview of Android 11 was launched last year. Ahead of the official preview, several features of Android 12 have been leaked including app hibernation, ‘App Pairs’, restricted networking mode, and the ability to share Wi-Fi passwords wi...

Android 12 will bring a completely new split-screen mode Google is preparing interesting innovations for Android 12. In addition to the simplified procedure for transferring Wi-Fi passwords, limited network mode and mysterious hibernation mode, some developers have discovered a new feature that will delight owners of smartphones with large screens. We are talking about a redesigned split-screen multitasking mode. In this mode, you can display two applications at once (sometimes more) and use th...

The Wi-Fi password share feature is expected to roll out with the Android 12 Developer Preview next month.

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Image Source: Pixabay Google is expected to start the rollout of its Android 12 Developer Preview next month. The codebase for Android 12 isn’t public as of now, however,  XDA Developers while digging through Android Open Source Project (AOSP) found some commits that provide hints for the features we will get to see in the next release. Also Read - Google Maps Compass returns for Android users, more new features introduced According to the report, there are a few commits merged to AOSP, de...

Android 12 will allow users to share WiFi passwords via the "Share Nearby" function. This is much easier than QR scanning

In Android 12, users can block apps from accessing the internet Google is now in full swing preparing for the launch of its new mobile platform – Android 12. Meanwhile, details about it began to leak on the web. This time, enthusiasts from the mobile developer community XDA Developers have found one of the features of the future update by digging into the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) code. The new feature is internally called restricted networking mode. Interestingly, in a post describi...

Google may add a Restricted Networking Mode in Android 12 This article is part of our Android 11 may not have rolled out to your phone just yet, but that doesnt change the fact that were going to hear a lot more about Android 12 starting next month. If previous years are any indicator, February will see the announcement of the first developer preview. We recently learned about the upcoming app hibernation feature, and today weve heard about yet another one. Mishaal Rahman, the Android Open Sou...

The developer team working on the Android Open Source Project has a new feature in the works that will help save storage space in future versions of