The contextual assistant ‘Google Now On Tap’ screen search was the headline feature of Android Marshmallow. You can bring up this function by just long pressing on the Home Button, but after enabling Google Assistant, the Home button gesture activates the AI assistant instead of Now on Tap. If you are wondering how to use ‘Now on Tap’ along and Google Assistant together on your Android phone, here is how to get it.
The intelligent personal assistant ‘Google Assistant’ was an exclusive feature of Google’s latest handsets Pixel and Pixel XL. Thankfully, Google now starts rolling out the feature to all phones running on Android Nougat and Marshmallow. If you do not have this feature yet, just follow the guide given below. If you did it correctly, it will instantly activate Google Assistant on any Android phone runs on Nougat and Marshmallow.
It has been a few weeks since Google rolled out the Android 7.1.1 Developer Preview 2 for supported devices. Now, Google starts rolling out the stable build of Android 7.1.1 for Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 9, Pixel C and Android One devices. The update includes December security patches, bug fixes and new features. Full OTA update is now available for download, which you can sideload manually via ADB.
Google’s new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones are the big news in the Android world now. Both smartphones are runs on the latest Android 7.1 Nougat out of the box and it is rumored that the new Android 7.1 update will be rolled out to non-Pixel devices, such as Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, etc. by December this year. The new update includes various new features, improves touch responsiveness and more.
Google has finally launched Allo, its smart messaging app for Android, after the company first announced it at its I/O developer conference in May 2016 along with the super simple video calling app Duo. Allo works more like WhatsApp. The app requires only a phone number to register and offers end-to-end encryption. Once activated you can chat or group chat with your contacts.
Google’s 2016 Android handsets, the Pixel and Pixel XL are set to launch on October 4. Google open a website ‘madeby.google.com’ that confirms the launch of Pixel and Pixel XL handsets running on the Android 7.1 Nougat on October 4 (in my location it shows October 5). The main attraction of ‘madeby.google.com’ website is a rectangular phone shape that flies around with beautiful images.