Google has released Android 17 Beta 3, and with it comes one of the update’s most anticipated features — app bubbles. Think of it as a cleaner evolution of Android’s older floating window system. You ...

Zac has been writing about Android as a hobby since he was a teenager and fulfilled his ambition of doing so professionally when he joined Android Police as a Reviewer in 2020. Zac specializes in ...

A whole new approach to multitasking on its way to Android — and you can start benefitting from its brilliance this minute. It isn’t often that we see an interface addition so significant — so ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

The Bubbles API was first introduced in Android 11. It was mainly used for chat apps, letting users see and reply to messages while doing other tasks on their phones. The interface looks like a ...

Google Gemini is starting to get the floating response window Google teased at I/O. Rather than pulling you away from your app, Gemini now functions much more like Assistant. The floating window opens ...

Google Gemini is getting a long-awaited tweak that makes it more pleasant to use and might even open up new functional possibilities. Now, Gemini’s results appear in a floating window instead of ...

WhatsApp is reportedly developing support for Android's notification bubbles feature, which could allow users to keep ...

This month, Google was spotted testing a floating window to display results in Gemini. This would make it more similar to the classic Google Assistant, as well as making it easier to use with other ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...