Google is developing a feature that will enable any app to be opened in a bubble on Android smartphones and accessed from a new Bubble Bar. The new bubble bar, combined with the “bubble anything” ...

Google is developing a new way to multitask on Android, taking advantage of the bubble system previously only found in messaging apps. The new system will enable one-tap multitasking, making things ...

Android’s multitasking story is finally catching up with the hardware it runs on, and the next wave of changes looks less ...

If you're the kind of person who tends to have multiple conversations at once, hopping between your messaging apps and whatever else you're doing, you know how tedious it can be to switch between them ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

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Android will soon let you stash notification bubbles to the side so they take up less space on the screen. Currently, notification bubbles are always fully visible on top of other apps. The ability to ...

Here’s an early look at new features coming to the Play Store including the ability to archive unused Android apps to save space and includes preparations for a floating bubble for download progress.