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Action Launcher finally includes dark theme

Now available on the Play Store, Action Launcher v42 finally includes theme support. That means you can now pick between light, dark, and full dark themes. The full dark theme will look particularly great on AMOLED panels. However, the difference in battery savings compared to the normal dark theme is negligible. Quicktheme now also integrates better with the current theme. For example, you can set the search box to change with your wallpaper, but have the folder background tint change with the theme and the app drawer ignore any changes.

Hidey Hole find you wallpapers that hide the Galaxy S10's camera

As the developer states in the app’s Play Store listing, you could get all of these wallpapers yourself by just visiting Reddit. What’s special about Hidey Hole, is that the app makes finding specific images more convenient to locate while throwing in a couple of extra features. Inside the app, you can first sort the wallpapers based on which Galaxy S10 they were made for. From there, you can have the photos listed by the date that they were uploaded to Reddit or by popularity.

Marvel at these Galaxy S9 Infinity War cases from Otterbox

We’ve seen the likes of OnePlus leap aboard the Avengers hype train this week with free movie tickets, and now it’s case manufacturer OtterBox’s turn with some new Avengers: Infinity War cases. The four case designs, spotted by CNET, show off Black Panther, Thanos, Iron Man, and a design featuring the various characters on one case. They’re available for the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus as well as the iPhone 7 lineup, iPhone 8 duo, and iPhone X.

Multi-touch hack comes to Nook Simple Touch

If you don’t want to cough up the extra money to get Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color, which is one of the cheaper Android tablets in the market, but you are willing to engage in some Frankenstein-style experiments with the Nook Simple Touch, the following hack will turn the monochrome e-reader into a respectable Android tablet, complete with multi-touch capability! The bright minds at XDA-Developers have found new ways for you to be more productive when using the Nook Simple Touch.

Power-packed but no Galaxy S22 killer

Xiaomi 12 ProThe Xiaomi 12 Pro packs plenty of raw power for blazing-fast performance and charging speeds, but falls short in vital areas such as the battery and the camera. A good enough buy for those with a need for speed, but you can get truly great phones for the same price or less. Table of contents Xiaomi’s 2022 flagship phones are now available globally and that includes the Xiaomi 12 Pro.

Skype picture-in-picture mode allows you to multi-task during calls

Skype 4.5 is rolling out today, and there’s actually a pretty useful feature being introduced: the ability to have a picture-in-picture window that can stay open and viewable even when in different Android apps. In short, you can now participate in a Skype video call and still do other tasks like browse the web, play a game and so-forth. While Samsung might have multi-window support that allows for multitasking, this is one of the first apps we’ve ever heard of that actually allows you to “float” itself on top of the homescreen and even other Android apps.

Skyrim Very Special Edition for Amazon Alexa is somehow real

Bethesda rocked up to the E3 2018 gaming expo last night and proceeded to unleash a barrage of long-awaited reveals and surprise announcements. Yet, nestled among demos of Fallout 76, our first look at a new Elder Scrolls RPG for mobile, and confirmation that Elder Scrolls 6 will exist one day, you might have missed what was by far the strangest of the bunch: Skyrim for Amazon Alexa. Under normal circumstances, the news that Skyrim — the fifth main Elder Scrolls game first released back in 2011 — is being ported to another new platform would hardly be a surprise.

You can now tag yourself in Google Photos for more personalized creations

Google has rolled out an update to its Photos app allowing you to tag yourself in pictures. When you login online or launch the Photos app, you may soon be asked to identify yourself so that the Google Photos algorithms can find your face in other pictures. Google lists three benefits of doing this; you can: Get more personalized creations. For example, a movie that has photos of you. Get personalized search.

Google announces Android Messages for the web

Update: Google has now released an official blog post on not just the new support for web-based texts on Android Messages, but several other new features that will be rolled out over the next week. As we previously reported, once the Android Messages app update goes live, just go to the settings menu, click “Messages for web,” then scan the QR code on the Messages web client so you can send and receive texts on your desktop or laptop.

How to change display resolution on the Samsung Galaxy S8

Is your mind playing tricks on you, or is that brand-spanking new Samsung Galaxy S8 (or Galaxy S8 Plus) screen look like it came straight out of 2013? It certainly looks like it did, as Samsung has decided to set the default resolution to FHD+ (2220 x 1080) and not the native QHD+ (2960 x 1440). The reason? We are not exactly sure, but it must have something to do with battery life and/or performance.