Google Assistant Archives - Android Kenya https://androidkenya.com/tag/google-assistant/ Pure Android Passion Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:03:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://androidkenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-ak_ico-32x32.png Google Assistant Archives - Android Kenya https://androidkenya.com/tag/google-assistant/ 32 32 123899007 Google Bard Advanced coming soon with “complex, better responses” https://androidkenya.com/2024/01/google-bard-advanced-coming-soon/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:03:47 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=22604 In December 2023, Google announced plans to launch Bard Advanced, a new AI chatbot powered by the company’s most powerful language model, Gemini Ultra. Now, a glitch in the Bard interface has seemingly revealed that Bard Advanced is indeed in the works. While details of the release date remain in the dark, it’s now emerging […]

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]]> 22604 Google to consolidate Calendar and Assistant reminders in Tasks starting next month https://androidkenya.com/2023/02/google-consolidates-reminders-tasks-app/ https://androidkenya.com/2023/02/google-consolidates-reminders-tasks-app/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:15:44 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=20554 Back at the tail end of 2022, Google announced that Reminders would be migrated from the Google Calendar and the Google Assistant to Google Tasks. In a new development, the company says that the process will automatically start next month. However, you can initiate it by yourself now if you want to. For those using […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2023/02/google-consolidates-reminders-tasks-app/feed/ 0 20554 Google explains why the Google Assistant’s theme stays dark – and it’s not changing any time soon https://androidkenya.com/2023/02/google-explains-google-assistant-permanent-dark-mode/ https://androidkenya.com/2023/02/google-explains-google-assistant-permanent-dark-mode/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:45:41 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=20524 If like yours truly, you rely on Google Assistant for various things from getting your lights turned off to turning on the dehumidifier to asking for random jokes when the day gets stale then you may have noticed that the Assistant’s interface is… always dark? Like this: This is always the case even if your […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2023/02/google-explains-google-assistant-permanent-dark-mode/feed/ 0 20524 Apple Music finally comes to Google Assistant-enabled smart speakers and displays https://androidkenya.com/2020/12/apple-music-google-assistant/ https://androidkenya.com/2020/12/apple-music-google-assistant/#respond Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:45:00 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=15112 Users of Google Assistant-enable smart speakers and displays are in for a holiday treat: it’s now possible to ask the Assistant to play something from their Apple Music libraries. The development, announced by Google in a blog post yesterday, comes 5 years since the launch of the popular music streaming service and its first availability […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2020/12/apple-music-google-assistant/feed/ 0 15112 Voice input, remote control buttons come to the Chromecast menu on YouTube’s Android app https://androidkenya.com/2019/12/youtube-mobile-tv-new-chromecast-features/ https://androidkenya.com/2019/12/youtube-mobile-tv-new-chromecast-features/#respond Sat, 21 Dec 2019 10:05:16 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=12110 If your plans this holiday season involve not moving far away from your couch as you catch up on all the videos from your favourite YouTube creators and channels that you may have missed during the years then Google just turned on what may perhaps be the best Christmas cheer for you. A new change […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2019/12/youtube-mobile-tv-new-chromecast-features/feed/ 0 12110 Poweramp 3.0 brings a new audio engine, drops support for older Android devices https://androidkenya.com/2019/08/poweramp-3-0-update/ https://androidkenya.com/2019/08/poweramp-3-0-update/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2019 08:00:17 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=10913 We are on to Android 10 this year and future versions are quickly becoming history. While that shouldn’t worry anyone who is using an Android device from at least the last few years, the few holdouts among us that still have tablets running on Honeycomb have something to worry them: they are not getting the […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2019/08/poweramp-3-0-update/feed/ 0 10913 A Google Assistant-powered Huawei smart speaker would have launched this September, but… https://androidkenya.com/2019/07/google-assistant-powered-huawei-smart-speaker/ https://androidkenya.com/2019/07/google-assistant-powered-huawei-smart-speaker/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:46:35 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=10534 Huawei has in the past partnered with Google on a number of devices that include the Nexus 6P, one of the most successful products in their love story. But ever since Google went the Pixel way, such partnerships have been MIA, at least that’s what we knew. If the latest report by The Information is […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2019/07/google-assistant-powered-huawei-smart-speaker/feed/ 0 10534 Android Q beta 5 makes yet another attempt to streamline Android’s gesture navigation mess https://androidkenya.com/2019/07/android-q-beta-5-features/ https://androidkenya.com/2019/07/android-q-beta-5-features/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2019 05:00:07 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=10002 Let’s be honest, much as gesture navigation has been around on the Android platform for a while now, the experience remains largely disjointed. This is both as a result of Google’s mostly hands-off approach to matters relating to the platform in years gone by as well as the usual high-handedness by Android device makers. The […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2019/07/android-q-beta-5-features/feed/ 0 10002 Google Assistant-powered speakers now work with Netflix on Android TV https://androidkenya.com/2018/10/google-assistant-powered-speakers-now-work-with-netflix-android-tv/ https://androidkenya.com/2018/10/google-assistant-powered-speakers-now-work-with-netflix-android-tv/#respond Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:20:33 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=6899 Smart speakers, as I noted earlier, are some of the best things you can have in a typical home set up right. More importantly, if the smart speaker in question is powered by the Google Assistant. Granted they are not the be-all that some of us make them out to be but they get you a […]

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]]> https://androidkenya.com/2018/10/google-assistant-powered-speakers-now-work-with-netflix-android-tv/feed/ 0 6899 Google Assistant comes to tablets and Android Lollipop smartphones https://androidkenya.com/2017/12/google-assistant-tablets-lollipop-phones/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:30:04 +0000 https://androidkenya.com/?p=3582 Google Assistant, the aptly named personal assistant found on Android devices (as well as the iPhone but hey, that’s the least of our concerns, really), has been available to most users for over 9 months now. However, the assistant, known mostly for its ability to provide on-the-fly information and not necessarily its wit as is […]

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