We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. If you flash the Android M developer preview images (our tour!) on the Nexus 5, 6, or 9, one of the first ...

During a recent conversation with my friend (and soon to be fellow contributor to the Pocket Now family) Clifton Thomas, we debated the need for widgets and the app drawer within Android. Clifton has ...

One of the main advantages of the Android operating system is the support for widgets. These items provide more information than just a plain icon and sometimes they offer some interactive features ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

On the pro-app drawer side, we know it as one of the defining features of Android. It helps keep your home screens tidy and affords a lot of the customization potential that Android is known for. By ...

Google giveth, and Google taketh away. It’s an all-too-common tale here in the land o’ Android, and it’s exactly what happened in the world of widgets on our lock screens. Now, it’s still entirely ...

Google Play Store is home to tons of applications, and each of us uses a number of them on a daily basis. One of Android’s best features is customizability, and one of the reasons I personally have ...

Forget the fact that Google killed off its Hangouts widget: Follow these steps, and you'll be accessing messages from your home screen again in no time. What Google giveth, Google taketh away. At ...