You asked us to turn out the lights, so we made a light switch. Now the only thing that'll be blinding you is our beautiful prose and not the blog itself! We're thrilled to introduce dark mode to the site, and even more excited that it will match the settings on your phone and computer.
Don't take our word for it: These AC community members review the Lenovo Smart Display themselves.
Google's Android N Developer Preview only includes one new wallpaper for us to enjoy, but it sure is pretty.
A great question showed up in our forums recently about the safety of using your name in your Gmail account, and using your real Gmail account when logging in to things. Here's our answer and explanation.
Android for everyone!
We love to see how everyone gets from place to place, and we love even more to see it illustrated with wonderful photos. Our latest photo contest was looking for your best "transportation" photos, and you all delivered wonderfully.
A quick heads up from our Making Things Easier Department: We've tweaked our header a tad to make things faster, better, and faster. (And also better.)
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This is the home for the changelog for all versions of the official Android Central app (and the other Mobile Nations apps)Â as published in Google Play. v2.8.5 v2.8.3 - 2.8.5 Release notes now show on update, and are available anytime in the settings menu. (v2.8.5 fixes the fix that fixed the crash for that) Added some items to the NavHeader to make navigation easier One secret...
We're sprucing up the joint, and we're starting at the top with a new header Hi. How's it going? We're Android Central. And we're still Android Central. We just look a little, well, different today. Not grossly so — just a new 'do up top is all. If you're reading this article in a web browser on your desktop, tablet or phone, look up — OK, it's kind of hard to miss — and you'll notice...
It's that time again. Right around the beginning of this year I decided we were going to start a little bit of quarterly fun and poll you, the readers of Android Central, about what version of Android you were using. It's by no means scientific, and there's not much we can't find out other ways — like checking the website stats — but it is a great way to get a discussion going. And that...
We’ve wrapped up our Android Central semi-annual survey, which managed to field about four thousand responses across a wide range of questions. With the information we’ve collected, we got a good feel for who you guys are and what you want. That data will shape the kind of content you’ll be seeing here on Android Central. Of course, we’re happy to take feedback year-round, so always...
You've read what we have to say about the HTC One (M8). You probably even read some of the other posts about the M8, like how it compares to the M7 or a look at the color selection. When a new phone gets announced and released on the same day— kudos to HTC for pulling that off, by the way — there's a lot to talk about. And the best place to talk about it all is in the HTC One (M8)...
Sleep in peace knowing that the Hale Dreamer with SmartSilence will intelligently screen your calls to make your snooze as uninterrupted as possible. If you've kept an eye on the blog the last few weeks, then we're sure you saw our entry on the Hale Dreamer dock for Android with the SmartSilence application and how the developers were looking for backers on kickstarter. Well, for those...
We hope everyone reading this spends at least a little bit of time on the forums.  Spend enough time there and you're sure to see the Moderators hanging around threads, helping members and just generally nerding about the latest and greatest devices like everyone else.  We do other things, too, that don't get as much focus here on Android Central.  We're really just regular people just...
We've put a whole lot of work into the official Android Central App — download it now if you haven't already! — and kind of let our mobile-friendly site fall by the wayside. No more. We're happy to announce that we've cleaned up the joint just a little bit, with fresh curtains and a new coat of paint. Now you can get your favorite Android stories from your favorite Android site in a...
We've got a bunch of great ways to keep up with the latest from Android Central on your smartphone, tablet or computer — above and beyond visiting a web page in a browser. Here's a look at our available downloads: Android apps We've got a trio of apps available, each serving a different purpose. The Android Central App The official app for the No. 1 Android...
We have a new mission: Make getting the latest and greatest content from Android Central as quick and as easy as possible. And to that end, we're proud to present the Android Central Chrome Extension. As the name implies, it's an extension that lives in your Chrome browser that serves up the latest headlines from us, Android Central. No mucking about with RSS feeds. (You can find our...
We Android users love to set up our devices just right, with everything we want or need within easy reach right from our home screens. We also like to share and compare with each other, and enjoy looking at some of the more exotic setups some folks have going on. Someone asked the other day, wondering what the AC staff's home screens looked like. I sent a shout out to the forum mods and...
New navigation drawer, YouTube API and forum search highlight this major update! OK, folks. It's time to take the wraps off the latest and greatest version of the Android Central App! We've been testing this internally for a little while now, and for a little bit with a few close friends. Now it's time to unleash it on the public. So what's new in v1.3? Quite a lot, actually, which is...