Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google combines YouTube Music and Play Music teams, may merge apps later August 03, 2025 Right now, Google has two music streaming apps,YouTube MusicandGoogle Play Music. If you’re wondering why the two apps aren’t combined into one, well, it looks like the company has the same questions as well. Today, Google confirmed that it has decided to combine its YouTube Music and Google Play Music teams into one unit....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Photos jumps into the live wallpaper game to showcase your memories June 14, 2025 Google Photos is a great backup tool for all your captured moments, but often those moments lie dormant until you actively revisit them. Now, the app is giving users the option to turn those old shots into wallpapers. As spotted byXDA,Google Photos5.22 is introducing a new option to your phone’s background selector on Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google pledges $4 million to support US immigration organizations August 14, 2025 In response to President Trump’s executive order that suspends the admission of refugees into the US, and temporarily bans people from seven Muslim-majority nations,Googlehas pledged $4 million in support immigrant organizations. According to USAToday, the money would be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees / UN Refugee Agency (UNHR)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google will answer some questions instead of loading search results July 10, 2025 For some time now, Google has added its own answers to the top of search results. In most cases, these widgets provide you with the information that you were looking for. But on mobile, things are getting shaken up. Going forward, some searches will only show Google’s answer instead of loading an entire page of results, as spotted bySergey Alakov(via9to5Google)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s Area 120 wants to give you things to do when you travel June 26, 2025 Globe-trotting folks have often found themselves stuck in a particular area not knowing what to do with their time. When that happens, people must search the internet aimlessly trying to figure out what their options are. Google’s experimental incubator Area 120 wants to change that with its new product,Touring Bird....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G take one step closer to launch June 11, 2025 Google’sPixel 5andPixel 4a 5Gmay have cleared an important hurdle to their release, and we may now know more about their network support as a result. Three Pixel 5 models (filingsone,two,three) and three Pixel 4a 5G variants (one,two) appear to have passed through the FCC....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to use SQLite to store data for your Android app August 07, 2025 Most Android apps will need to persist user data at sometime. There are different ways to store user data, but SQLite databases are a very convenient and speedy method of saving user (or app) data and information. SQLite is an opensource SQL database that stores the database as a text file on a device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC One M10 reportedly launching with a QHD AMOLED display, fingerprint sensor and Snapdragon 820 July 04, 2025 Now that it’s officially rumor season, we’ve been hearing an increasing amount of leaked specs and features that might be present on the upcomingSamsung Galaxy S7,S7 EdgeandLG G5. One major manufacturer we haven’t really heard much about as of late isHTC, specifically regarding the upcomingOne M10flagship....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI P30 Pro allegedly leaked in new hands-on images (Update) June 27, 2025 Update – August 07, 2025– We have some more image leaks of what is allegedly the HUAWEI P30 Pro, this time fromSlashleaks, via leaker “NTKLeak.” The images once again show three rear cameras in a vertical orientation, including that square lens at the bottom that might be a10x optical zoom sensor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI sales soar and revenues rise 89 percent in H1 August 21, 2025 Huaweihas today posted detailed information about the performance of its Consumer Business Group during the first half of the year. In the six months to June 30, sales of HUAWEI smartphones rose 39 percent – compared with the same period last year – to 48.2 million, resulting in an 87 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to $7....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Kirin 950 announced: What you need to know June 05, 2025 Mobile chip developers have been lining up their next generation hardware for a few months now andHuawei’sHiSilicon has just announced its new high-endKirin 950, and it’s a beast. We’ll start with the main processing components, the CPU and GPU. The Kirin 950 is the first SoC based on ARM’s big....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Leaked Google Pixel 4a release date suggests no delay (Update: Might be delayed) August 21, 2025 Update, Jul 20, 2025 (10:40 AM ET):It appears we spoke too soon, as the launch date for the Google Pixel 4a has apparently been pushed back to June. The source of this information is the same source as listed below. Check out our full article on the matterhere....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG V30: all the rumors in one place (Updated: August 29) July 25, 2025 In this post, which will be updated regularly, we take a closer look at the latest info on the LG V30 specs, release date, features, design and other LG V30 rumors. Come back often! When you’re in the market for a feature-heavy phone with all of the trimmings, you may usually rely onLG‘s V series to deliver....