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.
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.
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.
Nova Launcher is a launcher with a feature list as long as my arm. That’s great if you’re someone who goes in and tweaks every little thing, but how do you find the two or three things you really want to tweak amid the rest of it? Here’s where the settings you need are hiding.
Night mode can be amazing, but it has to be implemented properly and users have to be given enough control to make it a feature rather than a nuisance. Nova Launcher is the former, and an example for all.
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some super, new wallpapers.
Captain America. Iron Man. Black Widow. Black Panther. Spider-Man. We've got the themes you need for #TeamCap and #TeamIronMan ahead of the blockbuster beatdown coming this Friday.
There's thousands and thousands of icon packs out there. How do you find the packs that are worth using? With this checklist of features.
HTC's theme store has a lot going for it: highly customizable themes, lots of diverse content, and easy sharing. It also has a lot of developers going against it as they see sales slip down the drain thanks to icon packs being uploaded without the copyright holder's consent.
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 Disney wallpapers.
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.
Looking to get the very best typing experience on your Android phone? Then look no further as we round up the very best custom keyboards the Google Play Store has to offer.
Android is full of variety. While there’s a lot of beautiful app icons out there… there’s also a bunch of icons that are downright ugly. Even if you’re not using a fancy launcher that supports icon packs, you can get rid of ugly icons on your home screen.
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.
You may have heard tell of the impending doom of the app drawer. I think its death has been greatly over-exaggerated, but if you want to prepare for this brave new world — or for one of the many launchers out there that doesn’t use an app drawer — we’ve got you covered.
I say this with love: your wallpaper's old. Old wallpapers are sad wallpapers, and life's too short for sad wallpapers. Get some awesome, new superhero wallpapers.
Superman may often be portrayed as the perfect boy scout, but he's hiding more than you'd think under that shiny emblem he wears. Batman is a shadowy enigma, meant to inspire fear in criminals and hope for Gotham's innocent. They both make truly super home screen themes.
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 has dangled night mode in front of enthusiasts before during the Developer preview for Android M. And this year, it's back again, but there are a few signs that it might stick around this time.
System UI Tuner brings some interesting options to Android N, but if you aren’t going to mess with them, you can hide them so they don’t waste space in your Settings. Here’s how.
Screen calibration is a delicate thing, and sometimes when a phone comes out of the box, it doesn't look the way we feel it should. In Android N's developer preview, we can do something about that.