Android Studio Giraffe is now stable, bringing in the new IntelliJ 2022.3, a new IDE look and feel, improved Live Edit, Compose animation previews, and more.

Android itself may be moving away from whimsy, having backed down from its cute dessert names for major releases (at least, other than for internal development), but it sure feels like Android ...

Google is working on a new animation for the media player in the Messages app. The media player may also get a new feature.

Google has used the CRT-style screen-off animation since Gingerbread. That animation is gone in Lollipop, replaced with a gentle fade out. Frankly, I'm surprised the CRT stuck around this long ...