Google is working on adding dark mode to Chrome for Android

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As it stated in Thanks to Google's own leaks, we know that a system-wide dark mode is (finally) coming to Android via the Q release, but until all the apps we use have corresponding dark themes, it going to not really matter. That's causes of we're excited to hear that Chrome for Android is planning a "dark mode experiment," likely similar to the dark theme available on Chrome for Windows. The upcoming feature, posted to the Chromium Gerrit, was first spotted by 9to5Google yesterday. The commit merely states:[Dark] Add build flag and experiment flag This patch adds a build flag and an experiment flag for the dark mode experiment. Odds are it'll be a When before any of this ends up being user-facing in a shipping release, though.

Google will let Android users donate directly to nonprofits through the Play Store

Google is launching a new feature for Android phones this day out of its Play Store app marketplace that going to let anyone donate to a number of America nonprofits, by 100 percent of the donation going to the chosen organization. Google is waiving its traditional 30 percent fee for apps and in-app purchases as part of the program, that the company is calling Giving Season on Play. (Most donations are tax-deductible in the US, yet having to account for 30 percent of a donation out of the Play Store complicates that process.) Google going to let nonprofits keep 100 percent of all donations, forgoing its 30 percent cut"In celebration of the holiday giving season, we're making an update to the Google Play Store which lets you make charitable donations to inspiring nonprofits," writes Maxim Mai, Google Play's business developer manager. Apple alextremely did the same out of iTunes and the App Store earlier this year for the California wildfires and for Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Facebook Urged Android Developers to Comply With Google Play's SMS Policy Update

as mentioned in Facebook alerted developers of Android applications about a change it is making to comply by Google's new policy on permissions covering SMS (short messaging service, or text messages). A new Google Play policy took effect Wednesday, saying that if apps do not require access to call log or SMS permissions, those permissions must be removed from those apps' manifests, or the apps may be removed from the Google Play store. It's the feature most prominently documented and promoted in the app's description—no other feature is more central to the app's functionality. Facebook said in a blog post that developers ought remove the RECEIVE_SMS permission from their apps' manifests in order to comply by the Google Play policy and ensure that their Facebook Account Kit continues to function. The social network added that the next version of its Account Kit software-development kit going to no longer use the RECEIVE_SMS permission.