

He focuses on Android, Chrome, and other software Google products - the core of Android Police’s coverage. Manuel Vonau joined Android Police as a freelancer in 2019 and has worked his way up to become the publication's Google Editor. Transcripts and auto-translated captions on YouTube are coming to your phone.Group chats in Google Messages are getting end-to-end encryption, building on the security and privacy added to the platform last year.Plenty of dev-focused changes are coming to Google Play, including a new SDK Index for browsing all available SDKs.Google will give users more control over the ads they see with My Ad Center, adding the option to directly control specific ad subjects.

Third-party devs are also upgrading their apps, including Facebook and TikTok. A ton of Google apps are getting tablet-based upgrades, finally delivering a much better big-screen experience than we've seen in previous years.It's a more advanced version of Google's original language model announced at I/O last year. LaMDA 2 is here, with support for lists, conversations, and even an imagination.Speaking of Chromebooks and Android, Phone Hub on ChromeOS will start streaming messaging apps directly from your smartphone to your laptop later this year.While we wouldn't recommend watching YouTube videos on the go, it's a nifty way to view your device on larger screens. Soon, you'll be able to cast directly from your phone to your Chromebook or.Unfortunately, only developers can try out this build. Android 13 Beta 2 for TVs is also out as part of I/O, with some big improvements to how PIP works on the platform.Samsung's Galaxy Watch4 is still getting Assistant support, but users will have to wait until sometime this summer.Google's second retail store will open in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on June 16th.
