It's possible to add widgets on an Android to provide easy access to an app's functionality or information.

If you own a Samsung Galaxy phone, you can use the preinstalled My Files app to add a PDF shortcut to your home screen. Open your file manager or Files app and locate the PDF file. Tap on the ...

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iOS might be catching up in terms of customization, but if you want to take full pixel-by-pixel control over the look of the software on your phone, Android still leads the way. You're able to change ...

Adding a contact to your Android home screen can significantly streamline your communication process, allowing you to quickly access your favorite contacts without navigating through multiple menus.

When it comes to our Android home screens, we all have our own personal preferences. The nice thing about Android is it offers a lot of customization options, so each of us can make it our own. For ...

Fair warning: The tip you’re about to ingest has nothing to do with any of the fancy-schmancy, accuracy-challenged AI ballyhoo that dominates most tech news coverage at the moment. Nope — it’s just a ...

YOUR Android phone has a clever trick to stop people from snooping on your pictures. It's called app pinning and it stops friends or family from roaming around your phone. Imagine you want to show ...

Google is developing a new split-screen mode for Android 16 that aims to improve multitasking on phone displays by using a 90:10 ratio. This allows one app to dominate the screen while the other ...

Most of us could probably use some help reducing our dependance on our phones. Digital Wellbeing is the screen time monitoring tool you'll find built into Android phones, and Google has quietly pushed ...

New in Android 15, Google is allowing you to screen record a single app. Previously, when you would screen record on your Pixel phone, it would record the entire screen, including any app you went too ...