Taylor Kerns

1 week ago | androidpolice.com | Taylor Kerns

Android WebView now supports Google Pay for in-app payments, enhancing the shopping experience on Android. Google Play Services v25.18.30 enables Google Pay within Android WebView. Developers need to update their apps for the new feature to take effect. Android's native browser is finally getting Google Pay support. Google has announced that Android WebView, AOSP's built-in browser that apps can use to render web content, now supports payments through Google Pay.

1 week ago | androidpolice.com | Taylor Kerns

Ten years ago today, at its annual I/O conference, Google had a lot to say about Android. Back in its 2015 keynote, Google detailed Android 6.0 Marshmallow, offline features for the Maps app, Google Pay predecessor (and Google Wallet replacement) Android Pay, updates to its Cardboard VR platform, and more — a stark difference from this year's keynote address, which was overwhelmingly about AI features average users likely won't touch.

1 week ago | androidpolice.com | Taylor Kerns

Google's big I/O keynote address this week was almost entirely about AI: we saw real-time AI translation, AI video (now with sound!), AI music, enterprise AI tools — on and on. Google jammed most of its I/O-adjacent Android info into a separate streamed presentation that aired the week before its annual developer conference started. One of the more exciting bits of the pre-I/O Android Show detailed Material 3 Expressive, Google's new UX design language.

1 week ago | androidpolice.com | Taylor Kerns

Moving into a new Android phone has gotten a lot easier over the years. Long gone are the days of connecting two phones with a USB cable and waiting as your texts, call log, and photos trickle from one device to the other. Now, much of our data lives in the cloud, and getting your new phone set up just like your old one is pretty trivial. But notification channel settings still don't make the jump, and it can cause weeks of headaches on your new device.

3 weeks ago | androidpolice.com | Taylor Kerns

Google I/O is next week, but Google frontloaded a bunch of Android-specific info into its own presentation ahead of the main event. In The Android Show: I/O Edition that streamed yesterday on YouTube, Google had a lot to say about Android, Wear OS, Gemini, and more. There'll be more to come at I/O proper on May 20, but for now, here are four takeaways from Google's Android show this week.