r/AskAndroid

I just moved into a tiny new studio and I'm enjoying filling it up with a modest amount of furniture and appliances. One indulgence that I'd like to enjoy, however, is an always-on Google Now terminal that can I can summon with "Okay Google" from anywhere inside of my studio. As in, from my bed, from the kitchen, from the couch watching TV.

It seems like the major challenge of the ask is in getting a system that could always be heard. I don't know if this would require multiple mics or just a really sensitive one or a specially tuned device. Are there any homebrew Android projects that would accomplish this? Any off the shelf products?

Thanks!

What is the best android browser

I looked at these two phones today, and can't decide between them. I know the mi 9T is a global release of the K20 (Pro), but I found a K20 (Pro) with a Global ROM.

Are there any downsides to the K20 (Pro), except for price then?

It has multi-language and OTA updates, and Google Play (I don't know about the other Google apps, but I can just download them myself, right?)

Neither are available in my country (Norway), but I think I'll just import it anyway, so there is no difference in accessibility.

Thanks!

With the growing selection of larger devices (4.7+ inch screens) often the top and top-corners of device screens are out of reach during one-handed use for most people.

I'd love to see a design standard within Android that would enable a global UI change to force all app menu/navigation bars to the bottom of the display rather than the more common top location.

I don't have small hands. They're a bit larger than most of my male friends' (I can just barely palm a basketball in one hand) but even on my HTC One, I often have to perform hand gymnastics to hit the top corner of the display while using the phone one-handed (commonly the back button in many apps).

Went into settings>advanced> reset wifi, bluetooth and network and still hasn't solved the problem. Any ideas?

I have an old samsung tablet with anrdoid 7, and chrome 77.something. In chrome, the tabs are all along the top, like how you would see it on a desktop. its a pain when you have more than a few open you have to swipe around to see them all. however on my phone there is a button that shows you tabs in a switcher style menu. i tried to enable it but the option in accesibility is not there, and there is no setting for it in chrome://flags either. Is there any other way to get it?

I have android, so, Google play.

Would like to watch YouTube without notifications showing up.

Notifications between YouTube videos ok, but not during.

Is there a way to set this up?

Turning on do not disturb gets forgotten and stays on all the time. Undesirable.

Every few minutes, a black bar will come down my screen and interrupt whatever I'm doing, almost like I pressed the back button. If I'm in the middle of typing, it'll close the keyboard. If I'm watching a video in full screen, it'll take the video out of full screen. I've tried a hard restart and I've updated my phone, still having the same problem.

So like a moron I didn't have a case on my pixel 2 all this time and today at work it happens, whack, a part I was making smashes the lower bottom of my screen, by the circle in the middle and the square.  Are there any rugged cases that will cover this and prevent it from happening again?

Also, my buddy has an iPhone and he can't send or receive texts from me. I'm the only one who has this issue. I'm thinking when he returned to the U.S. something went wrong w/ his sim card. Any suggestions?