35 Hidden Android Features.

Number 35 If you're using Google Maps, instead of just constantly double-tapping to zoom in, you can double-tap once and then swipe up accordingly. Google Keyboard or Gboard allows you to take a photo of yourself and then turn it into custom stickers that you can use on almost every social network you may have heard of Google Lens. It's something not many people talk about, but he's gotten quietly smarter over the last year. You can't just use it to scan everything from famous buildings to fruits and vegetables. Now you can even translate text in real time and the app uses augmented reality to overlay it on the real world.

It's not at the cutting edge of technology but it's still pretty interesting but what I think is even more interesting is the fact that you can take a photo of text and then this becomes instantly editable, you can copy it, share it or even get more information about specific parts of it. Now, when it comes to Google Assistant, you probably fall into one of two categories: either you never use it or it's a huge part of your life and you're an everyday user for those of you who fall into that category of people who never use it. play at all, they may not know that it can replicate the functionality of many of their possibly existing apps, for example, you don't need Shazam at all, all you need to do is ask your assistant what song this is and it will tell you something what I personally started playing with: remotely controlling my phone.

You can use the assistant to toggle your wifi, bluetooth, etc. In addition to opening third-party apps, you're probably also hearing a lot about augmented reality recently and if you're like me, a lot of them will literally make your eyes roll. white, but I was quite surprised when I discovered that by simply searching for certain animals on the Internet, Google allows you to visualize them at scale in the world around you, if nothing else, it's a cool party trick and, while we're talking about your Android browser, Chrome allows you to switch between tabs very quickly by simply swiping, which considering I currently have around 50 tabs open is pretty useful if that appeals to you and you're really interested in maximizing your productivity, then you'll also know that Google Chrome can be used in split screen, but this gets a lot better when you realize that any selected text can be copied to the other open app by simply dragging it so you can forward a specific part of an article to a friend or instantly plot the location of somewhere you're going.

Trying to get to dark mode has become a bit fascinating recently as it can save power on some devices and being a nice change from all the white menus, it turns out you can get dark mode on almost everything, with the latest phones , you should find the option in the display settings, but this only tends to change the UI elements, not the third-party apps. We can take this further, although in Google Chrome you just need to head to the Chrome flags section that houses Google's behind-the-scenes experimental options and enable it there even apps. Like Facebook Messenger, they also have a dark mode which I keep on by default.

Now it actually gets a lot better if you go into the developer settings, where if you have a Samsung phone with a UI, you can set the phone's internal dark theme to sync with the time of day so that everything is lit up as the sun rises and dark when you need it. Additionally, if you are on Android 10, you can force dark mode on other apps even when they are not programmed with it. It even includes WhatsApp, which has been slow to adopt the feature. Plus, if you're using a Samsung phone with a UI, the hex installer is an absolutely amazing way to get a completely new look, all without root, if you enjoy the direct connection type by the way.

To the point I'm making with the videos now, a sub would be greatly appreciated because there is much more to come. Wallpaper Modder is an app that I think I mentioned once last year, but I'm still using it three times a week, essentially. any wallpaper you like and use it until you get bored, but then instead of switching and spending a lot of time looking for the next perfect background, this allows you to very quickly change the one you have, so for example I really like them the original Samsung wallpapers. galaxy s10 5g, but the problem is that there are only three built into the phone and I want more, but with a similar style, this app is a really easy way to achieve this if you are the type of person who takes a lot of screenshots.

You've probably experienced manual juggling like this at some point. It doesn't help that I'm using one of the biggest phones out there, but you get my point. Using an app called screenshot assistant, you can remap the screenshot by simply holding down the key. your home button and when you do, an instant share button pops up so you can send that meme as quickly as possible, okay, back to the assistant and you probably know that Google loves to hide Easter eggs inside their products and don't tell anyone, just leave it. people find them in the past. I've shown you that saying I feel lucky will bring up a full multiplayer quiz, but there are a lot more things you can ask in specific quizzes based on things you're interested in, for example video games. or songs and you can play quite a few multiplayer games, including one called brainstorming and another called coco ding dong, which is such a typical Google thing.

There's even a role-playing game called a castle game, which is a fully narrated adventure where you listen to the host. You talk about the scene and answer how you want to proceed. I also really like the option of asking the assistant to tell me something funny, it will bring out one of those embarrassing but also endearing jokes and the cool thing is, you can actually schedule it to send one every day of the week. Ah yes, one last wizard trick. You can tell it to remember things, for example, remember that I left my wallet in my jacket pocket or remember that I did indeed lock the front door. when I go out and at some point in the future you can tell it to remind you notify friend is an application that returns your notification to you.

This is a feature that many phones are now losing with the move to borderless screens, but this app uses the pixels inside the screen to recreate that functionality. I'd say it still feels a little better because it's missing some important

features

, but it gives you precise control over color and which apps to apply to the precise heart rate monitor you don't need. a lot of explaining, but it's convenient because you just place your finger on the phone's camera for a few seconds and bam! you have a reading, it's probably not the one if you need professional medical help, but at the same time if you're just trying to track your fitness levels over time.

It will do the job. Falling into that category of cool party tricks is giving pause. Installing this app allows you to pause games and videos by simply looking away. It's not something I'm doing. I'm personally going to use it, but I could see the appeal continuing. I've already shown you some of the cool things gboard can do, but there's also a lot of useful stuff, the kind of stuff that really made me switch to using it as my primary device. keyboard, if you hold down the Enter key, it becomes a mini keyboard for one-handed use. If you then press this icon here, you can freely move the keyboard around within the entire bottom half of your phone, and if you want full control, you tap these three dots. and select floating, then it can be any size and anywhere.

I've been in quite a few situations where I just wish I had a die to roll or a coin to toss to resolve some sort of random scoring system, plus it allows you to do exactly that. and quite a bit more, basically anything you want to choose at random, like any letter of the alphabet or any card from an entire deck. You can do it, you can even play rock, paper, scissors. It is very well done. I just wish there were less. ads now one of my favorite Android tips is one of the simplest if you get a call and you want to silence it just turn the phone over, you can also double tap the multitasking key to quickly access the last used app, okay? a couple of things to do with theming by default, most phone settings don't have much uniformity when it comes to color and in my opinion your home screen will often look much better with two or three colors at most, so start by looking for an icon pack. you like it as this is usually the hardest part and then you look for a wallpaper to match it, for example the skyline icons have a really striking blue and white neon aesthetic so I found a background with a theme and complementary colors and it just looks like they were created together too for an absolutely spectacular live wallpaper.

Check out the best Maxillus fish. It's super well animated and it's also mostly black to save some of that battery you'll lose by having a moving background. Well, number one is fascinating VMOS. tool that allows you to run Android within Android gives you the equivalent of two separate devices that you might well be thinking: one device is already enough, why would I need two? It comes with some amazing benefits allowing you to completely separate social life and work life with your personal set of accounts logged in on one Android and work ones on another, this virtual system can also be rooted very easily, allows you to play a game in full screen while does something else and potentially uses apps that were previously incompatible with your phone, it's a little prone to crashing on my Samsung, but some of the reviews on the Play Store are positive, so it might work better on yours if you enjoyed this video.

I have a ton of Android customization like this, so I'll leave some of that linked as a card above as well as a pinned comment below, thanks for looking, my name is Aaron, this is Mr. Who's the boss and I'll tell you I'll see next time.