The way Android works on Pixel devices is the stock Google experience. This is what I want, the reason I have always owned Google-designed devices like Nexus and Pixel phones.
If you squint a bit, the Google experience is just a skin.
While other vendor skins are more recognizable, Google’s software provides a suite of settings and apps specific to Pixel devices. An article in this issue explores some of the Pixel-specific productivity features you may not have noticed.
The overview screen, also known as the app switcher, lets you switch to different Android apps. On Pixel devices the overview screen is packed with useful features that can boost your productivity, here are a dozen. Which ones do you use?
Do you still have an old Chromebook around? Let me guess, it has limited RAM and performance isn’t stellar. As this tutorial shows, you can improve things a bit with virtual RAM, i.e. by configuring some of the device file storage as memory swap space.
Who needs a Google Nest display when you have a Chromebook? Here’s how to configure your Chromebook to make it double as a sort of smart display and present slideshows and information when not in use.
Many don’t like the prominence of Google Chat in Gmail, especially on mobile where screen space is at a premium. If you like the integration and chat frequently, here’s how to configure the Gmail Android app to show the Google Chat tab.
The Too Good To Go app lets you purchase at reduced price leftover food and meals at restaurants, bakeries, and other stores in your area. You pick up the food at the stores at the specified times. By distributing leftovers, Too Good To Go gives you otherwise good food and helps reduce waste.
You can sign up with your Google account and pay with Google Pay.
ASCIIFlow is an ASCII diagram editor. You can draw, resize, export to text or HTML, and save the diagrams to Google Drive. This tool is handy, for example, to insert diagrams in source code files.
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