Android

I'm starting a running program with my family. Part of the fun is building a shared playlist and listing to cues together. I'd like to run the audio off one phone and have it go simultaneously to 4 headsets. I see there's phone apps that do today but my kids don't have phones. Is there a hardware device that can do this?

(EDIT: It's live on the Play Store. Search for "Watch Piano" !!)

Hello everyone,

I made a free piano app for all WearOS devices. Mostly for fun and personal use, but was a good opportunity to learn some Kotlin.

100% free, no ads, no in-app purchases or permissions. Just really wanna share it in case someone finds it interesting or useful.

You can check a 20 sec demo clip in the URL.

Please let me know what you think or what features I should add!

(Unfortunately the app is not public yet as Google requires an initial testing phase, but the testing is open and if you are interested it's a matter of joining a google group and then clicking on a direct playstore link. See below).

Edit:

Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/watch-piano-closed-testing

Link to the app: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.pianomagic

Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24944719

TL;DR

• Android may add a new feature that automatically converts light theme apps to dark theme.
• The evidence for this comes from a new “make more apps dark” toggle that I spotted in the first Android 16 beta release.
• Google has been working on this feature since last year, so it’s unclear when it may launch.

So you have a 50/50 chance of your battery being crippled depending on what vendor the battery came from.

Android 16 is adding support for pinned notifications that show live info from apps.

TL;DR

• Android 16 introduces Live Updates, a new class of notifications for ongoing activities.
• Live Updates are prominently displayed on the lock screen as well as on the status bar.
• These notifications are intended for rideshare pickups, food delivery alerts, navigation, and other use cases.

If this doesn’t sound like anything new to you, I don’t blame you. After all, rideshare apps like Uber have already been showing notifications like this for years now. Uber had to do a lot of custom stuff to make its notifications look like that on Android, though. Google has basically created a standardized version of what Uber’s been doing. With the new progress-centric notifications in Android 16, any app can create notifications like Uber.