All About Android 556: Biggest News of 2021

Android 12 - Material You... and... everything else Also sure... Android 12L Samsung now offers four years of security updates to Galaxy phones and tablets. Google only promises three years of Android updates for Pixel 6/6 Pro Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates. Google shutters Stadia Games and Entertainment development studio Analysts explain how the Apple-Epic court ruling could affect Google Google acquires Fitbit and that is *probably* good for Wear 3? Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub Galaxy Watch 4 OnePlus Watch Pixel 6/6 Pro + Google Tensor - Google's vision of Premium Pixel OnePlus 9 "OnePlus details how it's going to merge OxygenOS and Oppo's ColorOS And there won't be a OnePlus 9T this year" LG is quitting the smartphone business Z Flip 3... a step forward for foldables? Samsung Z Fold 3 and... Samsung Galaxy Note 21: why there's no new Note coming in 2021 Microsoft Duo 2... second times a charm? Tablet energy picking up again 'AAWireless' dongle for wireless Android Auto starts shipping to customers Pixel Buds-A series US Carriers embraced Google's RCS via default Android Messages... but Apple didn't Google Hangouts Is Now Google Chat, and Good Luck Figuring Out Why Google is killing off Android Auto for phone screens in favor of Assistant driving mode Clubhouse for Android (zzzzzzzz) LastPass announced major changes to its free tier and people are angry about it Google Photos' unlimited free storage is gone. Here's how to get more space Pokemon Go is a freight train: $5B in 5 years, $1B in 2020 alone. Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11 Jetpack Compose: Android's Modern UI Toolkit Compose Multiplatform 1.0 Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3z2RYNb Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion Guest: Huyen Tue Dao Subscribe to All About Android at https://twit.tv/shows/all-about-android. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: imperfectfoods.com promo code ANDROID UserWay.org/twit betterhelp.com/android