Every application open on Android 12 is accompanied by a launch animation to make “startup a more consistent and delightful experience,” and the experience can be further enhanced by an animated icon ...

For the longest time, YouTube has had a somewhat static splash screen that simply shows its logo when you first launch the app. But the company has been working on a new loading animation and startup ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google’s latest Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 update brings a subtle but notable enhancement: a revamped launch animation for its Gemini AI assistant. Though not widely publicised, the feature introduces a ...

In exploring the latest build of Android 12 before full public launch, the feature we found to have the most potential to impact the everyday average user's future experience was Splash Screens.

YouTube for Android TV is now receiving a fresh new startup or splash loading screen when launching the app from cold. Google has quietly made a number of changes to YouTube on Android TV over the ...

It’s not often that a company posts a full blog post advertising a new splash screen for their app. YouTube, however, felt it needed to go the extra mile. The YouTube television app just got a new ...

Google is sending out a lot of updates in the month of March. It just released its latest Android 12L feature drop for Pixel phones, and people are seeing some new and welcome changes to the software.

While developing a new feature for a product, I decided to create a splash screen that illustrated the metaphor of pieces falling into place. A little animation seemed the perfect trick for the job.