Google Maps Google begins pushing "Local guides" even more with two beta features in Maps for Android On its 15th birthday right this month, Google went out and made public a slew of changes to Maps - starting with the app icon, to a complete redesign of Eray Rafet 19 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
Google Maps Google Maps gets a new icon and another paint job on its 15th birthday Wow, it's been 15 years since the launch of Google Maps! And, as a celebratory action, Google has updated the Android and iOS apps with many user interface improvements and Eray Rafet 10 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
Google Apps Dark mode on Android 10 and Google Chrome 77+ 2019's biggest feature update that has come to mobile platforms like Android and iOS is, no doubt, the system-wide dark mode that many of us have craved for years. Now Alexey Shabanov 10 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Google Apps Gboard's recent update brings Emoji 12.0 support for Q, easy access to your clipboard, and more Gboard is a very advanced virtual keyboard, made by not someone else but Google themselves. Apart from having top-notch word prediction capabilities, dictionary syncing, built-in theming options, and so on, Alexey Shabanov 10 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
Guides Google launches a beta program for YouTube on the Play Store After all of these a bit annoying server-side tests with many of their apps, including YouTube, out of the blue, Google has decided to launch a dedicated beta program for Alexey Shabanov 9 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
Guides How to become a beta tester for Gboard on Android Gboard is a keyboard application available for both Android and IOS. It is very customizable with a ton of themes built in and user-selectable custom keyboard backgrounds. Not only that, Alexey Shabanov 9 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
Guides How to report bugs for Google beta, and in general too The Google app is one of the essentials for an Android user, giving access to services like Google Feed and Assistant. Because TestingCatalog is a place meant for beta testing Alexey Shabanov 9 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Guides How to become a beta tester for the Google App on Android Subscribe using the opt-in URLFirst, you need to visit the Google app beta page on TestingCatalog and tap on the 'Google Play beta Form' link at the bottom of it. Alexey Shabanov 9 Feb 2020 • 1 min read
Guides How to become a beta tester for Google Play Services Subscribe using the opt-in URLFirst, you have to open the Android App Testing for Google Play services page.Then you have to click on the blue colored 'BECOME A TESTER' Alexey Shabanov 9 Feb 2020 • 2 min read
Guides 18 Google apps you can beta test today Since I introduced a search functionality in the TestingCatalog, I was able to track what people are looking for. This was not a surprise that most of the search requests Alexey Shabanov 7 Feb 2020 • 14 min read
