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One of the greatest WhatsApp features is file sharing. With a few simple steps, you can share documents with your friends. WhatsApp is finally rolling out a feature that allows sending any file type, including archives and media files. The rollout is limited and slow, but if you're lucky, you might already be able to share your files.
Android O Introducing an Animated Clock Icon, Soon Available in Custom Launchers
Check out this animated clock icon coming to custom launchers, thanks to the Clock app packaged in Google's latest launcher.
Google might be about to launch a new feature in Android O -- Chris Lacy, who is the author of highly regarded Action Launcher, discovered that the Clock application would have an animated icon in launchers.
Earlier this week, OnePlus finally released the OnePlus 5 smartphone. It has also published the sources needed to develop for it, so it is only a matter of time before developers get on board.
Google released a short review of the changes in the latest version of WebView. Android WebView is a system component for Android allows Android apps to display content from the web directly inside an application.
The Unicode Consortium has officially announced Unicode 10. The new version adds 8,518 characters including 56 new emoji characters, a set of four new scripts, and new symbols. Currently, the standard consists of a whopping total of 136,690 characters.
If you are familiar with GNU/Linux-based operating systems, you have almost certainly heard of Wine. This great project allows you to run Windows applications without the need of installing a virtual machine. CrossOver Android is a similar concept, but it's made for Android tablets and Chromebooks running Intel hardware to allow these platforms to run full-fledged Windows software. The latest alpha build, version 4, has been released with support for Android Nougat.
Custom launchers offer much more customization options than the stock launchers that ship with your phone. Unfortunately, there are some really enticing features from the stock launcher that most custom launchers do not support. One of those features is the Google Now pane that is accessed by swiping towards the left. The Nova Launcher developer discovered a workaround, resulting in them creating the Nova Google Companion app which allows Nova Launcher to use the Google Now pane.
While some OEMs allow bootloader unlocking on almost every model, the LG officially supports just a few devices. We have exciting news for the owners of the international variant of the LG V20. The bootloader can be unlocked thanks to the DirtySanta exploit.
Retro gaming fans may have just got the best news in a while. SEGA has just officially launched the SEGA Forever collection which allows gamers around the globe to play classic games for free. The list of games is relatively short, but will soon include nearly every SEGA game ever released from every console era – Master System, Genesis/Mega Drive, Dreamcast, and more.
Many users are enhancing their audio experience with ViPER4Android and this popular application has been pleasing our ears for years. Unfortunately, its user interface is a bit outdated.
The LG G Watch was released in June 2014 as a first device with Android Wear ever produced by the South Korean company. The watch is no longer supported, but the community managed to port the newest version of Android Wear.
TWRP 3.1.1 Released for the Moto Z2 Play
Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) version 3.1.1 has been released for the Motorola Moto Z2 Play with /data decryption support.
The Lenovo Moto Z2 Play was only recently released to consumers, and already XDA Recognized Developer Santhosh M has been able to port TWRP 3.1.1 to the device.
In order to make Android boot on most hardware platforms, developers usually have to mix open-source code with proprietary files. These so-called blobs are distributed by vendors to support some platform-specific features. Robert Foss from Collabora reported that is now possible to boot Android on i.MX6 platforms without the use of proprietary blobs at all.
Google Releases Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS
Google releases Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS. The project aims to make coding more visual with a drag-and-drop code builder.
Over the years, Google has released many open-sourced projects to aid developers in coding for their platforms. One such project is called Blockly, an open source library for building drag-and-drop visual editors for a multitude of programming languages. With the Blockly library, it uses a visual set of interlocking blocks that you can drag and drop to output syntactically proper code in the language of your choice. Now, it is available on Android and iOS. Blockly for Android is a developer preview that offers standard Android views and fragments in Blockly's editor.
Three weeks ago, XDA Recognized Developer and Contributor topjohnwu announced, that Magisk v13.0 will be re-written to have a unified binary. After weeks of coding and debugging, the beta version of the project is finally available to test.
Kodi 18 Finally Available As 64-bit App for Windows
Kodi just received better 64-bit support for Windows machines, in the Leia build, named after Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. Learn more!
We don't often feature Kodi on the Portal, but it has a place in our hearts. The XBMC successor is the most feature-rich media player application available on almost every platform. Now, Martijn Kaijser from the team announced a next milestone of the project.
Qualcomm Introduces Quick Charge 4+, Nubia Z17 to Bring it First
Qualcomm has officially announced the Quick Charge 4+, the successor of the last year's Quick Charge 4. Learn more about this technology!
Today, smartphones are way more than just phones. They are practically a complete pocket multi-purpose computer with software capable of performing even the most difficult tasks with varying effectiveness. Unfortunately, even the most capacious battery can drain quite fast and needs frequent, if not daily, recharging. Qualcomm has a way to alleviate that -- it's called Quick Charge 4+.
Just yesterday we wrote that LG is finally offering a way to unlock the bootloader on the LG G6 (H870). The community didn't need much time to port a custom recovery.
LG Electronics has officially announced that the LG G6 can now be officially unlocked through LG's developer unlock program. The program works on the European version with model name H870.
XDA Senior Recognized Developer Chainfire has announced that SuperSU is being updated to version 2.82. The latest app should be available on the Google Play Store already to most users, as the roll out began last week.