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Google's latest Pixel feature drop includes a handful of useful new functionality, ranging from additional features in the recorder app, a sleep mode and more.

Sleep tracking apps on Android will soon use less power Android apps that have to run in the background like sleep-trackers have had a rough time. Among other things, they suffer inconsistent and unreliable background app limitations across different Android versions, which can interfere with how the apps work at a very fundamental level. This doesnt fix  that issue, but today Google is rolling out a specific API just for those apps, letting them pull sleep duration data right from the system ...

(Photo by Olly Curtis/Future via Getty Images) Dont let your roommates vinyl collection fool you. Streaming has taken over the music industry, and its dominance begins and ends with Spotify. The music-streaming services desktop and mobile apps have evolved quite a bit over the past few years, growing more predictive and personalized while pulling in an ever-expanding array of music and podcast content. The tips below largely apply to the $9.99-per-month Spotify Premium, but free listeners have...

How to Hear a Weather Forecast With Your Alarm on Android Feb 16, 2021, 11:23 am EDT | 1 min read There are thousands of weather apps on every platform that can quickly share your location’s upcoming forecast. If you check the weather first thing in the morning, you can use the Google Clock app to hear the forecast with your alarm. This feature is possible with the Google Clock app on Android and Google Assistant. When your alarm goes off, it will trigger a routine that announces the day’s...

Source: Android Central As impossible as it is to believe, it wont be too much longer before Google starts talking about Android 12. Were obviously many months out from the public release, but developer previews and public betas will be here before you know it. The launch of the latest Android update is one of the most exciting things we have to look forward to every single year, and following the high praise of Android 11, were incredibly eager to learn what Google has in store for us in 2021...