Android General Tips

Taking screenshots on an Android device is not a big deal as almost all the manufacturers provide a key combo to be pressed to capture the screenshot on the device. What this key combo usually does is take the screenshot […]

Let’s face it: not everyone is a math genius. It takes really hard efforts to be even good (not great) at maths, and many of us fail to achieve that — including me. I’ve never been good at doing calculations […]

The night mode feature in Android Nougat allows you to put your phone into a mode that is easier on eyes in the night time. This means the brightness and the colors of the screen are automatically controlled by the […]

One of the messy things about smartphones is their notifications bar often gets messy. This is due to the number of notifications that various apps installed on your device send to the bar for you to alert you. Disabling the […]

One of the many features that Android Nougat brings with it is the split screen mode. The mode allows you to work with two apps at the same time and this can be really useful if you happen to do […]

I’ve been a big fan of Easter eggs no matter where they are. I’ve found many on Googles, and I really enjoyed them, and I love them on my Android phone as well — but these are a little hard […]

Google’s Gboard keyboard for Android brings with it tons of customization options. This is not the stock keyboard that you cannot modify, but rather it is a keyboard that lets you play around with it however you want. You can […]

Google creates some of the really nice doodles, and we see them floating around everywhere. From the Google app to the Google website, they happen to be everywhere, and it’s Google who decides where they should be. These Google doodles […]

Gboard is a keyboard for Android devices by Google that comes with a number of options to help you customize your favorite keyboard the way you want. From letting you have a number row appear at the top of the […]

We all happen to use numbers in our daily life typing, but unfortunately, the keyboards in Android phones do not always show the number panel. That way you need to tap an option or two to be able to see […]

Many times what happens is that you see really large content on your new Android device and that is because of the resolution values of the device. If the resolution has been set too low, everything will look bigger. Similarly, […]

While there are a number of apps that let you edit photos on your Android device, many of them require you to go through dozens of steps before you can turn a photo to black and white. The task of […]

Snapchat is known for being a battery hog as it eats up a significant amount of battery on your Android device — even at the times when you are not using it. First off, the app loads various stuff from […]

While advertisements you see in various apps on your Android device are supposed to help you find the content that is relevant to you, sometimes these ads are completely irrelevant, and the only thing they do is create an annoyance […]

Some of the Android devices come with a virtual navigation bar that lets you navigate your phones using the on-screen virtual buttons instead of the actual physical buttons attached to the bezel of the device. A virtual navigation bar is […]

A significant amount of applications on your Android device use your location data to provide you with the services that they offer in your location. To gather this data, what these apps do is they fetch the data using the […]

Whether you know or you don’t, everything that you search for on your Android device using Google is kept with Google as your web history. Even when you delete the search history from your browser, that history remains with Google […]

One of the most frequently asked questions by the guests that come over to your home is what’s your WiFi password. In this advanced technological world, nobody wants to live without the access to the Internet as missing out on […]

System UI Tuner, as the name implies, is a utility found in the devices that run Marshmallow or later versions of the Android. The feature allows you to tweak the user interface (the UI) of your device using a number […]

QR codes are everywhere because of their ease to use. These codes are nothing but images with some lines on it, and when these are scanned with a QR code scanner, they present with whatever is inside them. These codes […]

The Google Play Store keeps a list of all the devices you have ever used with your Google account. This means, any Android device that you have ever signed in on using your Google account will appear in this list. […]

The launcher on your Android device is what decides how everything should appear on your screen. From how the app icons appear on your screen to how an app should launch, all of these things are taken care of the […]

I really get frustrated when I need to type the same thing over and over again on my Android device. While I can definitely copy and paste the text, it does not work in all the situations such as when […]

While scrolling through your news feed in the Facebook app on your Android device, you have likely come across the videos shared by other pages and people. What these videos do is that they automatically start to play as soon […]

The world is becoming digital, and if you still happen to use papers for your documents, then you are considered to be obsoleted. I understand there are many places where you must use papers for your documents, but everything is […]

The Gmail app for Android is one of the greatest email clients I have ever come across. The app offers a number of features and it is really intuitive and great to use. From being able to swipe to archive […]

Some of the SMS you receive on your Android device are important, and you should keep them safe, so they do not get deleted from your device. These SMSes usually include the ones you receive from your banks, digital wallet […]