One of the more user-facing features available in Android 8.0 Oreo is support for adaptive icons, which allow the shape of launcher icons to be changed across the whole operating system. For instance, ...

Designing a professional-looking UI is an essential part of delivering a good user experience. While there’s no shortage of guidelines and advice on how to craft the perfect UI, in this article we’ll ...

Google has added the adaptive icon feature and a new icon visual to the YouTube Music application as of the latest version, which will be version 2.04. The update ...

A bug in the new "Adaptive Icons" feature introduced in Android Oreo has sent thousands of phones into infinite boot loops, forcing some users to reset their devices to factory settings, causing users ...

Adaptive Icons are on their way to Action Launcher for use on any device running Lollipop or higher thanks to a new add-on application just released by the company. The app is called “AdaptivePack – ...

With the new 8.0 feature, it’s easier than ever for icons to be displayed in a “variety of shapes across different device models.” While a win for customizability and (to some extent) uniformity, it ...

Spotify is one of the biggest music services on the planet, and a whole lot of people are actively paying for it. Despite that, though, it seems like an update doesn’t go by without some weird bug in ...

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Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...