All About Android 629

• Google IO preview! 
• Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You’ve turned them on, right? 
• The beginning of the end of the password. 
• Apple and Google team up to bring AirTag-like unwanted tracking alerts to all item trackers on iPhone and Android. 
• Android’s ‘Finder Network’ should support some existing Bluetooth trackers. 
• Google TV update rolling out with performance boost, frees up storage with app hibernation. 
• Improvements to your Google TV Experience. 
• Android update fixes a vulnerability that lets system apps be downgraded beyond the factory version. 
• Improving Consistency of Background Work on Android. 
• @MishaalRahman: Google's working to bring Material Design to Android Automotive OS, but unlike on phones, colors will be chosen by the OEM instead of derived by an algorithm. 
• @MishaalRahman: Following the Bluetooth, WiFi, and UWB stacks, Google will next turn Android's NFC stack into a modular system component, i.e. a Project Mainline module! 
• Tutorial: How to stop apps like Authy, Venmo, etc., from being locked to portrait mode on Android tablets/foldables. 
• Gmail is adding a blue checkmark to better verify senders. 
• Google Messages ‘Magic Compose’ AI can reply to friends – or write them a song. 
• @MishaalRahman: According to a few users on Telegram, the Google Play Store is starting to show ads for apps in the search screen. Is anyone else seeing this? 
• JR's tip of the week: Notification alerts! 
• Notification Light - aodNotify. 
• Missed call reminder, Flash on. 
• Another viewer's tablet journey. 
• Why not use a phone as a hotspot to drive the tablet in the car?

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