A forthcoming Android upgrade could mean a goodbye to the trouble of navigating with an erratic blue spot on Google Maps. A post on the Android Developers blog gives details about this potential ...

Google Maps has made a small redesign to the heavily used directions interface that provides an overview of trip details. Previously, Google Maps displayed the trip overview in three dense lines, ...

I am living with Android Auto for the first time. I have used it want renting a car for travel, but never used it (until now) for in a daily driver. Traffic in Nashvegas is such that I always use ...

Google Maps is updating its Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) API to improve direction accuracy in busy areas. The update combines gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer data, reducing magnetic ...

There’s some good news for Google Maps users worldwide. Finally, the new glanceable directions feature has started rolling out to users across the globe after a long waiting period. Google developers ...

Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheet-based layouts. This revamp is now more widely rolling out. These sheets ...

Glanceable Directions are finally hitting Google Maps a year after the Menlo Park-based tech giant announced the feature. The feature will roll out to users on all iOS and Android devices. Google's ...