Sometimes, in the course of using an app, you'll find that you need to tweak a setting to accomplish a task. In previous versions of Android, that meant exiting the app entirely to adjust the appropriate toggles in the Settings app. Starting in Android Q, though, apps are able to surface relevant settings in floating panels.
Read MoreYou can access system settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other options conveniently inside apps in Android Q
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Slices are one of the lesser-known feature additions in Android Pie, offering shortcuts to features inside apps. You've probably seen them in the app drawer on Pixel devices. Now, Slices are popping up in another place. Google is using Slices to surface settings controls inside the search UI on Pixel phones—no more digging into the settings.
Read MoreGoogle app v8.91 beta prepares Continued Conversations in German, tweaks to Slices and Collections, and more [APK Teardown]
Ever since the Google app moved to weekly releases, often with several minor updates along the way, notable changes have been spread out. This update brought the rollout of Android Auto integration for Google Podcasts, but aside from that, the last few updates have been pretty conservative with their changes. As a result, teardowns from the last few versions are getting bundled together in a single post to keep things cleaner for our readers.
Read MoreGoogle app v8.28 beta prepares for manually hiding Slices, more changes for a general settings page, and more [APK Teardown]
There's a new beta for the Google app rolling out, and this one takes a sizeable leap in version number to 8.28 from the 8.24 that came out just about a week and a half ago. There's not a lot to see in the way of changes, and even the teardown is on the soft side. Nevertheless, there are a few things to look through. And as always, we're still watching for more changes.
Read MoreSlices in Android to offer interactive quick dips into apps
Today's Android P beta may give users a new way to switch between apps, but sometimes you really don't need to jump all the way in and have access to an app's full functionality, when the use of a much more targeted subset of those features would suffice. Google's been working to overhaul the way Android lets apps work like this, sharing elements of their interfaces within other apps. Now we're learning more about how this mode will operate, as Google fills us in on app Slices.
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