Ara Wagoner is a Writer at Android Central. She themes phones and pokes Google Play Music with a stick. When she's not writing help and how-to's, she's off dreaming about Disney and singing show tunes. If you see her without headphones, RUN. You can follow her on Twitter at @arawagco.
When you play Pokémon Go, you need to keep your screen on. And since Pokémon Go doesn’t keep the screen on itself the way most games and media apps do, here’s how to boost your screen timeout in Pokémon Go… and only in Pokémon Go.
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some happy, new Digitdestined wallpapers.
If you’ve ever had to carry a phone all day because it wouldn’t fit in your pocket at all, LD West has a badass holster for you. And after carrying mine for three months, I don’t care how I look - I’m not going back.
I told you this spring that you don’t need root in order to theme or customize your phone. But it does open up new worlds of possibility, and in the words of one Jerry Hildenbrand: root is necessary, but it can be fun as hell.
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some happy, new wallpapers.
GIPHY had an update last week with an unfortunate side effect, making it much harder to share an image rather than a link outside your designated SMS app and what few messaging apps GIPHY natively supports. They brought back easy image sharing for the rest of the communication apps we use today.
There’s a lot to be said for rocking a phone without a case. And if you’re tight-gripped or happy-go-lucky enough to do that, more power to you. But many people use cases, and most people use them wrong because they don't clean them.
Unlike most Android TV apps, Google’s video apps left something to be desired while pausing or fast-forwarding. The latest update leaves me with only one question: when is YouTube getting it?
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some cloudy, new wallpapers.
Nova Launcher's pro version, Prime, is on sale, down to a dollar from it's normal $4.99. If you don't already own it, get it now. Doesn't matter if you're a hard-core themer or not, the productivity options you can unlock with Prime like gesture shortcuts are worth it.
ZUS tries to stand out with a kevlar cable, but what sticks out the most is more basic, and just as useful.
Dory has short term memory loss. She forgets things almost instantly, and we can all relate to that sometimes. That’s why there are awesome to-do apps out there, and awesome to-do widgets that make themes like this possible.
Whether you want to recreate the look and feel of the Windows platform, or you’re just wanting to bring Cortana and other Microsoft apps to your phone, we’ve got the guide for you!
Call it pure, call it stock (actually, please don’t), call it Nexus - whatever you call it, Google’s take on how Android should look is clean without looking boring. Here’s how to get it on your decidedly non-Nexus device.
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some happy, new wallpapers.
Change comes slowly to Android, be it good or bad. What happens when you turn on your favorite Bluetooth headphones and hit the play button over the last few years definitely falls in the later category.
One of our favorite Android Wear watches gets a decent price drop, just two weeks before Father's Day. If you are in the market for a new watch, this may be the deal you have been waiting for.
Maybe you just miss your old iPhone. Maybe you’re just sick of people judging your phone because it doesn't have half-eaten fruit on the back of it. Maybe you just want to prank someone. Whatever the reason, you want to make an Android look like and iPhone. Here’s how.
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some happy, new wallpapers.
Google's emoji are pretty divisive. Some people hate the yellow blob people, some of us love the yellow blob people, and the rest of you couldn’t care less since you think emoji are for 12-year-old-girls. But the way Android handles them needs to change.