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Google’s Quick Share has been an important part of Android for a few years now, but it still has a few hidden tricks, including the ability to trigger sharing by simply tapping the phone you want to share to.

The final 24 hours of the Amazon Big Spring Sale is now on the roll – we are touching down this morning to surface all of the most notable deals while they are still live. While some price drops are starting to disappear, you might want to get in there before everything is gone for good. From Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy gear right through to giant selection of smartphone accessories, power stations, LEGO, apparel, and even yard tools to ready your outdoor space, dive into our collection of the most notable Big Spring Sale discounts while you still can down below.

The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers.

After detailing the “advanced flow” for sideloading earlier this month, Google is opening the Android developer verification process to developers today.

Google finally announced its long-awaited “advanced flow” for enabling sideloading from unverified developers last week, set to roll out later this year to all Android phones. It addressed a lot of the concerns we had with the future of installing third-party APKs, but that’s not to say it delivered every answer under the sun. Thankfully, a new FAQ video is going a long way in filling in some of the gaps, including confirming you won’t need to repeat this process when you get a new phone.

Google shared today that Android and Chrome have set “new performance records” for mobile web browsing.

The 2026 Amazon Big Spring Sale is now officially live. It has now taken over the Amazon home page, delivering thousands of price drops on Google and Samsung tech, smart home gear, smartphone accessories, home goods, and just about everything else. The sale kicks off today and will run through March 31 with a revolving door of discounts landing each day – we will update this post with the best offers throughout the sale and stay locked to 9to5Toys for up-to-the-minute price drops.

2026 and the ongoing RAM/storage crisis continues to put out a rough outlook for the year ahead, and Android brands are bearing the brunt of that with a new forecast revealing that Android shipments could drop as much as 15% this year to the iPhone’s 2%, but there is a bit of hope for Google Pixel.

Sideloading has been a key part of Android since the beginning, not only delivering a lot of flexibility to Android, but also a sense of openness and freedom. After Google announced it would make major changes to sideloading, the community (somewhat understandably) panicked, but as Google has now shown exactly how its new sideloading flow on Android will work, I’m not only happy to see that sideloading isn’t going away at all, but that Google’s compromise is as close to perfect as I think we can reasonably get.

Later this year, Google is introducing new Android developer verification. For power users, Android will offer an “advanced flow” to disable the verification requirement.

People appear to be holding on to their Android devices longer – even longer than iPhone users during a year where companies paid the most to customers trading used phones.

Following a near six-year hiatus, Fortnite for Android is officially returning to the Google Play Store later this week following the conclusion of the long-running Google vs Epic Games court case.