The beauty of Android's operating system lies in its ability to be customized and tailored to your preferences. You can switch your default launcher and change how the icon appears on your Android ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Android offers one of the most customizable experiences on any smartphone. It gives you the freedom to customize everything from the launcher to widgets—and everything else in between—using simple ...

Material You is a new global theming engine for Android, and the third beta release extends that design scheme to icons. Jack Wallen shows you how to enable themed ...

One of the biggest evolutions to Material You in Android 13 is support for themed icons in third-party apps, a function that’s quickly expanding to more and more apps as of late. Now, Android 13 on ...

Custom icon packs are not all created equal. Many, sadly, introduce more problems than they solve. But every now and then, I stumble upon an icon pack that feels like a genuine improvement rather than ...

Taylor Wimberly became obsessed with cell phones working as a Sprint reseller as a teenager. When he's not writing about the newest handsets on the market, you can find him on the beach working the ...

Icon packs have been around for a while on Android. However, despite the myriad of Android icon packs out there, there are times when none of them suit your vogue. When this happens, your only resort ...

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Customization has been at the very core of Android OS since the beginning, basically. Android always offered more options in that regard than iOS, a lot more. Third-party launchers managed to become ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. For Android app developers that have been slow to adopt Google’s push for themed app icons, there’s no longer ...

On February 9, Google released the Android 12L Developer Preview #3, which is due for a final version in March. On February 10, Google is also releasing the Android 13 Developer Preview #1, which will ...