News & Reviews:   Android

Spotify has brought a design change to its Android and iOS app today. The new version of 'Your Library' allows users to explore their collections of music more easily and find saved songs/podcasts faster. Besides that, there are also different settings added for users to have more control over the content.

Based on a statement by Clubhouse on notion.so, it seems that they have started rolling out beta version of the Clubhouse app to Android users. With that in mind, we can expect the clubhouse app to be officially available on Android within a few months.

HUAWEI's in-house operating system HarmonyOS is making its way to more devices from the company. Earlier, it was reported that the rollout of the stable version for smartphones is expected to happen in June. Other than that, a list of upgradable devices has also been leaked. With such progress, everyone might think that the Chinese tech giant will ditch Android OS completely in the future. Now, the latest source is claiming that it will happen.

It seems that a tweet by Twitter user @morqon, seems to hint that an Android developer is currently working on the Android version of Clubhouse is currently in the works and it will be released somewhere around May 2021. With that being said, it will most likely be available around the same time as other Clubhouse rivals such as Twitter Spaces, Facebook Hotline, and more.

Google has brought some advanced video-editing features to the Google Photos app today for Android phones. The features which were only available to the iOS version of the app previously are now arriving for Android users as well with a server-side update.

During the antitrust trial between Apple and Epic, there were a few documents from Apple which revealed that iMessage was not made available to Android devices even though the app did not run into incompatibility issues. This is largely due to the orders made by Apple executives to keep iMessage exclusive to the iOS platform, making it harder for existing iOS users to migrate to Android-powered smartphones.

It seems that a Twitter Spaces developer @magusnn recently sent out a bunch of tweets hinting that Twitter Spaces will also be accessible via desktop web browsers. However, there’s no official information in regards to when the feature might be available in the Malaysian region, so you might want to check back with us for more updates in the future.

Most of us are not aware of how much data is being collected from us. But fortunately, researchers consider that a topic interesting enough to study and have managed to gain some insights. In this case, it's related to data being collected by Android and iOS.

These days mobile games have become a big thing. There's a variety of games available at our fingertips these days, but good trading card games are still quite rare. Thankfully, Android users who are fans of the genre now get access to a new mobile card game that's based on a classic series.

If you grew up with the series in the late 90s, chances are you might have played Final Fantasy VIII. You can still get the game these days on platforms like Steam or the PlayStation store. But what if you wanted to play it on your phone?