AudioFlinger does a lot of heavy lifting for audio in Android Auto. It has a fixed sample rate (48kHz) and creates a Hardware Abstraction Layer (or HAL). The HAL is what converts the AudioFlinger ...

Did you know your Android phone has a hidden menu of Bluetooth codecs that can make your headphones sound better? Here's how ...

Android 15 could fix USB webcam video quality by adding a dedicated High Quality Mode. This is an update to the plug-and-play webcam feature added in Android 14 QPR1. While the feature has been ...

The Android team has long offered quality tiers for apps on Wear OS, Large Screen, and other form factors. As part of this week’s push, Google is highlighting the Android Widget Quality Tiers. These ...

If you already have a perfectly functional cable that supports Android Auto, upgrading to a 5Gbps cable isn't going to make Spotify sound like you rebuilt the stereo. Yes, a broken or poorly built ...

During a recent Android Show interview, Dave Burke gave users a tip on what future Android version updates will bring. To Dave and lots of other Android users, quality is a major part of each upgrade, ...

Dave Burke, VP of Engineering for Android, was interviewed during The Android Show today and shared a lot of interesting tidbits, especially around quality and performance. In the context of Android ...

Better-quality video recording could be coming to Android smartphones thanks to a new software upgrade from Google that will give apps like Instagram, Snapchat and Adobe Lightroom access to new camera ...

It can be tough to preserve the quality of your images when sending them from Android to iPhone, but these tried-and-true methods keep them crystal clear.