I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

For the past several weeks, the Google Home app’s Routines creator and editor had an edge-to-edge bug on Android 16, and a fix is now here. As of Google Home 3.37, various buttons at the top and ...

Dreambeans is unlike any other social media or AI app I've tested in a good way. Dreambeans is one of the latest creations from Google Labs, the experimental AI branch also behind NotebookLM.

Pixel owners on Android 16 are having edge-to-edge issues with the Routines creator and editor in the Google Home app. When creating or editing Routines in the Automations tab, some interface elements ...

One of the widgets offered by the Google app has been a shortcut for accessing your Home Routines. In the latest Google app beta, the Routines widget is no longer available. This loss arrives right in ...

One of the best Android Auto features has been hiding from you in plain sight: Google Assistant routine shortcuts. These allow you to streamline and automate repetitive tasks with a single tap or ...

The typical smartphone user touched their phone 2,617 times a day, according to a study of 94 Android users. Finding the best routine app is a priority for students and professionals who feel ...

Google Home is adding premade voice assistant actions that simplify automation setup inside the app. Users can now quickly trigger tasks like weather updates or music. The update also adds an option ...

Google Home’s mid-February update introduces pre-defined Google Home voice actions to the automation editor, making it faster and easier to build custom routines with options like announcing weather, ...

Google Home automations can quietly take a lot of friction out of your day. From turning lights on at the right time to adjusting the temperature when you’re about to reach home, automations are one ...

It took a while, but automation tools are now baked into most smartphones. They're actually pretty good, too—with one exception. While Samsung Modes & Routines (even iPhone Shortcuts) are excellent, ...