December 21, 2021

All About Android 556: Biggest News of 2021

1 hour 49 minutes

Android 12 - Material You... and... everything else

Also sure... Android 12L

Samsung now offers four years of security updates to Galaxy phones and tablets.

Google only promises three years of Android updates for Pixel 6/6 Pro

Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates.

Google shutters Stadia Games and Entertainment development studio

Analysts explain how the Apple-Epic court ruling could affect Google

Google acquires Fitbit and that is *probably* good for Wear 3?

Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub

Galaxy Watch 4

OnePlus Watch

Pixel 6/6 Pro + Google Tensor - Google's vision of Premium Pixel

OnePlus 9

"OnePlus details how it's going to merge OxygenOS and Oppo's ColorOS

And there won't be a OnePlus 9T this year"

LG is quitting the smartphone business

Z Flip 3... a step forward for foldables?

Samsung Z Fold 3 and...

Samsung Galaxy Note 21: why there's no new Note coming in 2021

Microsoft Duo 2... second times a charm?

Tablet energy picking up again

'AAWireless' dongle for wireless Android Auto starts shipping to customers

Pixel Buds-A series

US Carriers embraced Google's RCS via default Android Messages... but Apple didn't

Google Hangouts Is Now Google Chat, and Good Luck Figuring Out Why

Google is killing off Android Auto for phone screens in favor of Assistant driving mode

Clubhouse for Android (zzzzzzzz)

LastPass announced major changes to its free tier and people are angry about it

Google Photos' unlimited free storage is gone. Here's how to get more space

Pokemon Go is a freight train: $5B in 5 years, $1B in 2020 alone.

Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11

Jetpack Compose: Android's Modern UI Toolkit

Compose Multiplatform 1.0

Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales

Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3z2RYNb

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion

Guest: Huyen Tue Dao

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December 21, 2021

All About Android 556: Biggest News of 2021

1 hour 49 minutes

Android 12 - Material You... and... everything else

Also sure... Android 12L

Samsung now offers four years of security updates to Galaxy phones and tablets.

Google only promises three years of Android updates for Pixel 6/6 Pro

Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates.

Google shutters Stadia Games and Entertainment development studio

Analysts explain how the Apple-Epic court ruling could affect Google

Google acquires Fitbit and that is *probably* good for Wear 3?

Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub

Galaxy Watch 4

OnePlus Watch

Pixel 6/6 Pro + Google Tensor - Google's vision of Premium Pixel

OnePlus 9

"OnePlus details how it's going to merge OxygenOS and Oppo's ColorOS

And there won't be a OnePlus 9T this year"

LG is quitting the smartphone business

Z Flip 3... a step forward for foldables?

Samsung Z Fold 3 and...

Samsung Galaxy Note 21: why there's no new Note coming in 2021

Microsoft Duo 2... second times a charm?

Tablet energy picking up again

'AAWireless' dongle for wireless Android Auto starts shipping to customers

Pixel Buds-A series

US Carriers embraced Google's RCS via default Android Messages... but Apple didn't

Google Hangouts Is Now Google Chat, and Good Luck Figuring Out Why

Google is killing off Android Auto for phone screens in favor of Assistant driving mode

Clubhouse for Android (zzzzzzzz)

LastPass announced major changes to its free tier and people are angry about it

Google Photos' unlimited free storage is gone. Here's how to get more space

Pokemon Go is a freight train: $5B in 5 years, $1B in 2020 alone.

Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11

Jetpack Compose: Android's Modern UI Toolkit

Compose Multiplatform 1.0

Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales

Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3z2RYNb

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion

Guest: Huyen Tue Dao

Subscribe to All About Android at https://twit.tv/shows/all-about-android.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

imperfectfoods.com promo code ANDROID

UserWay.org/twit

betterhelp.com/android

...more

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