David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

It adds a systematic approach to my workflow ...

If you're at the stage where you want to do more with your phone and start building automations—customized mini-apps to carry out tasks—then Tasker (for Android) and Apple Shortcuts (for iOS) are ...

Federico Viticci at MacStories is out today with yet another wild tool that integrates with Apple’s Shortcuts app. Shortcuts ...

Shortcuts Playground lowers the barrier to creating iPhone and Mac automations by turning natural prompts into working ...

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into ...

Apple is rumored to be adding an AI feature for creating shortcuts with natural language to the Shortcuts app in iOS 27, but ...

Following last week’s launch, Snapseed 4.0.1 for Android is rolling out with a shortcut to quickly launch the new Camera experience. Meanwhile, the team explains how “certain lenses (mostly ultra-wide ...

Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studio's new capability to build native Android apps.

Google is working on a built-in camera shortcut for the Android Photo picker, as spotted in the latest Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2. The addition could reduce UI fragmentation by eliminating the need for ...

And while this new feature might make it easier to create an app, if you want to publish your app on Google Play, it will ...