Samsung might be using Wear OS for upcoming smartwatches

Is Samsung ditching Tizen for Wear OS?

The Samsung Galaxy Gear and Gear Live were the last Android Wear-powered smartwatches Samsung released before shifting to its own Tizen operating system. That might change soon, though. According to Evan Blass (a.k.a. @evleaks), Samsung employees have been spotted wearing Gear watches that were Wear OS-powered instead of Tizen-powered.

It has been rumoured that Samsung was planning to rebrand its Gear smartwatches. The company has even applied for trademarks on the names Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Fit. But with these new rumors, it looks like they might even be thinking of dropping its own operating system in favor of the rebranded Wear OS platform. Samsung hasn't released a smartphone in a while, so it should be interesting to see what they plan to do with this.

Source: Android Central

Twitter kills off Android TV, Roku, and Xbox apps

Twitter has been slowly culling and consolidating its official apps and is getting rid of some third-party API features. The latest victims are the apps for Android TV, Roku, and Xbox apps. These apps let users watch live streams and view Moments. These apps haven't been updated in a while so it doesn't come as a surprise that Twitter is ending development for them. If you are using these versions of Twitter, you have until tomorrow, May 24th, to use them.

Source: Android Police

Instagram now lets you mute accounts you don't want to unfollow

Sometimes you have friends or family members you follow on Instagram that you don’t particularly care for but you can't necessarily unfollow. Instagram is going to help you save face with the new feature its introducing. The social network now has a mute option. As the name suggests, it won't show you posts or stories (or both) of people you mute. It's similar to the mute feature on Instagram and the unfollow on Facebook. You can turn mute on or off through the three-dot menu at the top right of the user's profile. You can opt out of seeing posts or stories or both. Instagram is currently rolling this out so you may or may not have this option already.

Source: Android Police

Dropbox adds new features to facilitate collaboration on mobile app

It's not quite groundbreaking but the newest features on Dropbox mobile is the biggest one in recent memory. These new items help users better communicate with other users while on the move. One of the new features is file activity, which shows you who has viewed, edited, or shared files from your Dropbox. This is available in the web version of the app but according to Dropbox, users have been asking to bring this feature to mobile as well. This feature is available on iOS and should be coming to Android soon. Sharing files should be much clearer in this update but the new interface hasn't launched yet.

iOS users get access to a new commenting system. Instead of taking you to a new window when you want to comment on a file, you'll see a text box at the bottom of the screen in file preview. iOS users are also getting a new gallery view for videos and photos to make it easier to see these files at a glance.

Source: Engadget