Android Advisor — November 2017

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 81 FEATURE settings’. This screen lets you change the location, opacity, and size of the handle. Mak ...

82 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 FEATURE capture methods. Move the selection box where you want to capture the GIF, and check your ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 83 FEATURE Hey, you have a pen, so why not use handwriting recognition to transcribe digital ink? A w ...

84 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 FEATURE the Note8 automatically enters screen-off memo mode. You get a black screen with a basic p ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 85 FEATURE the middle of the screen and release in the indicated box to launch it as a Pop-up. Altern ...

86 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 FEATURE volume rocker. An accidental press opens the Bixby Home panel, interrupting what you’re do ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 87 FEATURE In addition to turning it on, you should check the options for activating it. You can use ...

88 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 HOW TO A ndroid viruses are rare, but they exist. Almost exclusively installed via dodgy apps, the ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 89 HOW TO If this fails a factory reset should remove the bug once and for all, though you would pref ...

90 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 HOW TO be suspicious by their request for device admin permission, which should not be given to an ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 91 HOW TO Check app permissions: No matter from where you are installing an app, check its required p ...

92 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 HOW TO If this doesn’t work for your device then you should Google ‘How to put [your model name] i ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 93 HOW TO open the App info page, then click Uninstall. In most cases, this is all you need to do to ...

94 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 HOW TO Block ads If you’re fed up with ads,MATT EGANshows how to block them B oth standard adverts ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 95 HOW TO phone, but even if you wish to stick with Chrome you can banish pop-up ads. Here are tricks ...

96 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 HOW TO Use Data Saver mode If you are sticking Chrome, there is another step you can take to avoid ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 97 OPINION Y ou might have missed the Apple references during the recent Google Pixel 2 event, but th ...

98 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 OPINION In fact, it seemed like every new Google product released last month had a singular messag ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 99 OPINION There’s the impulse-buy Google Home Mini and the high-fidelity Max to put Assistant in eve ...

100 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 OPINION to have an advantage over Google Home and Amazon Echo with its high-fidelity, room-sensin ...