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5 best Christmas game events you can play on Android
Get in the holiday spirit with these festive mobile game events
The holiday season is in full swing on the Play Store, with a myriad of great games celebrating the season with Christmas-themed events. Some Christmas events are overt and embrace the classic iconography you'd expect. In contrast, others celebrate with more reserved winter themes, which tend to be more grounded in their respective worlds. These Christmassy events are here to bring old and new players together to celebrate with some cool extra content. Here are our favorites that stand out from the crowd, providing quality winter themes everyone can enjoy while playing on their favorite hardware released this year.
5 best Halloween game events on Android in 2024
Get into the Halloween spirit with these spooky events on Android
It's that time of year when the weather gets cold, and the decorations get spine-tingling. Halloween is always a fun time for everyone, and your favorite games on the Play Store never shy away from sharing their spooky enthusiasm. Like most seasonal events on the best budget Android phones, Halloween events allow game developers to have fun with the holiday while introducing some new creepy game mechanics and set dressing.
Weekend poll: Which upcoming fall tech event are you most excited for?
Microsoft? Meta? Let's be honest — it's probably Google
Apple's iPhone 15 event might be in the rearview mirror, but for us Android fans, the real fun has yet to begin. While we ruminate on what the latest iOS hardware might mean for the future of smartphones as a whole — including my demands for an Action button on every phone — we have plenty of events to look forward to. From Amazon to Microsoft to, of course, Google's main event, this fall is looking pretty hefty on our calendars.
WWDC proves that Apple has replaced Google as the fun tech giant
Can we get back the Google that made us laugh?
As Android enthusiasts, many of us have become accustomed to watching Apple announcements that bring in new products and features that look awfully similar to things Google did first—not to say Android hasn’t borrowed a few things too. But in recent years, there seems to be another thing Apple has borrowed from Google—is willingness to have fun.
Samsung teases what you can expect at MWC 2022
The electronics giant promises big news about the Galaxy Book
Samsung just launched its flagship Galaxy S22 lineup not even two weeks ago, but the electronics giant says more reveals are on the way before the end of the month. This week the company announced its Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 event and hinted at what's in store.
Google's uncertainty over October Cloud conference means in-person I/O probably isn't happening
Not that you were really expecting it anyway
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, even though a lot of people are pretending it is. But in October it might be, at least in a lot of places, thanks to rapid vaccine deployment. Google doesn't know whether travel will be safe by then, so it's hedging its bets with the Cloud Next '21 conference. It's definitely happening, but whether it will be in person or online is still up in the air.
Virtual droidcon EMEA 2020 lines up Android heavyweights for keynote address (Sponsored)
Tight on cash? Pay what you can to attend droidcon this year, even if it's nothing at all.
This year's droidcon EMEA 2020 conference is only weeks away, and the organizers have assembled a stellar list of speakers from various tech giants, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more. Headlining the event are two long-time Android industry leaders — Chet Haase and Romain Guy — who both possess a great deal of insight about the platform's future.
This year's virtual droidcon is your most affordable chance to attend yet, with tickets under $100 (Sponsored)
Participate in any (or all) of the Android dev sessions from the comfort of your home
Although COVID has put a stopper on many of the major tech events this year, some organizers have pivoted to deliver keynotes and learning sessions online. Joining this new trend, droidcon 2020 is moving forward with a brand new, interactive format that you can attend from the comfort of your home.
We're still waiting for a precise date for the Lenovo Legion smartphone, but ASUS has just revealed courtesy of a timer on the ROG Phone 3 site that we can expect that phone to be revealed on July 22nd at 10AM ET (7AM PT).
The Google Calendar Android app has always lagged behind its counterpart on the web, though it did catch up a bit last year when Google introduced event copying and duplicating to the application. It's still never been possible to outright pass events from one calendar to another, making appointment organization on mobile a chore – until now. Google is flipping a server-side switch for some people that finally lets them simply move an event.
OnePlus tends to put a great deal of effort into its launch events and the upcoming release of the 7T looks to be no different. Following in the footsteps of the OnePlus 6T before it, the company will be offering its latest device to eager fans at a series of pop-up events around the world. Eight cities around Europe, eight more in India, and one in the US will host the launch.
Yesterday, we spotted a new bit of documentation on the Google Maps Help site: a page detailing the process to add a public event through the Google Maps Android app. The feature is even live right now, though its behavior is a bit inconsistent in our tests, and isn't present for everyone.
If you play games on your Android device, you may be familiar with gaming "Events," which let you win prizes and rewards. These can be found in the Play Store, under a game's description so you can be aware of special giveaways or contests. However, until now, you had to check every app's page individually and couldn't get a consolidated view of all upcoming events. To make things easier, Google is gradually rolling out a dedicated "Events" tab, which synthesizes the information in a single place for you.
Google Trips is a great travel planner. Besides automatically importing your flight and hotel bookings, letting you browse and bookmark things to do, and offering practical information about the country/city you're going to, it also has one little-known trick that can save you some dinero while traveling: discounts. When you're already dipping into your piggy jar for a trip, it doesn't hurt to save upward of 20% on travel cards, tickets to places, and experiences, does it?
A new update to Google+ struck yesterday, but it doesn't appear to include any visible changes. However, a look through the APK points to a new built-in feature for bookmarking posts to open again in the future. There's also a warning that Events are likely to be shut down sometime soon, and one line raises some questions about the upcoming titles feature.
Last year Google implemented a new card interface for event-related searches, giving you a straightforward overview of the many ways to fill your free time locally. Today Google has announced that it is adding a few more features to Search that make finding events even easier, showing more information like time, location, and ticketing, as well as an entirely new discovery mechanism for finding out about events you might like.
Android P's second developer preview is making quite a few changes to the lock screen. We already discussed its display of the weather on the lock screen and ambient display, but it turns out that upcoming events are being shown on the lock screen now as well.
Google Maps recently made news as a few people started getting audible instructions with the names of visible landmarks in place of hard-to-see and sometimes indiscernible street names. In very nearly the same breath, v9.76 began rolling out through the beta channel late last night. Unlike most updates, this one doesn't seem to bring a lot in the way of new features outside of a couple small tweaks, but it does strongly hint at events added by the community, possibly opening up a whole new avenue to get people together.
Microsoft's Outlook team has been hard at work going through user requests recently, and upcoming updates to the Android app will add some of the most in-demand features. Using the feedback and votes collated on Outlook UserVoice, the team is bringing a number of enhancements to the calendar so that it now functions more like its desktop counterpart.