New Windows 11 Insider Builds Bring Voice Typing and Click to Do Improvements

New Windows 11 Insider Builds Bring Voice Typing and Click to Do Improvements

The Windows team is firing on all cylinders today with the release of the April optional update for Windows 11 version 24H2, plus three new Insider builds for Dev and Beta Channel testers. The 24H2 preview builds bring a new profanity filter setting for voice typing and a new option to launch Click to Do … Read more

Microsoft Again Releases Identical Windows 11 24H2 Builds to Dev and Beta Channels

Microsoft Again Releases Identical Windows 11 24H2 Builds to Dev and Beta Channels

You know the drill: If you have a Windows 11 version 24H2-based PC enrolled in the Dev or Beta channel of the Windows Insider Program, you have a new pre-release build to install. For those in Dev channel, the update is KB5055642 and installing it will upgrade your PC to Windows 11 version 24H2 build … Read more

Lint Be Gone: Speed Up Your Android Release APK Builds | by Ademir Queiroga | Apr, 2025

Lint Be Gone: Speed Up Your Android Release APK Builds | by Ademir Queiroga | Apr, 2025

Enhance Your CI Efficiency by Disabling Unnecessary Lint Tasks When Building APKs Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash I’ve been exploring ways to speed up a white-label automated app-building system. After a deeper inspection, I realized that the Android Gradle build task could run much faster for assemble tasks, a.k.a. building APKs. Given the number … Read more

Lint Be Gone: Speed Up Your Android Release APK Builds | by Ademir Queiroga | Apr, 2025

Lint Be Gone: Speed Up Your Android Release APK Builds | by Ademir Queiroga | Apr, 2025

Enhance Your CI Efficiency by Disabling Unnecessary Lint Tasks When Building APKs Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash Context I’ve been exploring ways to speed up a white-label automated app-building system. After a deeper inspection, I realized that the Android Gradle build task could run much faster for assemble tasks, a.k.a. building APKs. Given the … Read more

Microsoft Issues New Windows 11 24H2 Dev and Beta Builds

Microsoft Issues New Windows 11 24H2 Dev and Beta Builds

The Dev and Beta channels in the Windows Insider Program are on different builds series now, but these new builds are identical, at least when it comes to new features and other changes. Cumulative update KB5055617 is now available to those with PCs enrolled in the Dev channel. Installing this update will upgrade the PC … Read more

Recent Windows 11 Insider Builds Hide Larger and More Customizable Start Menu

Recent Windows 11 Insider Builds Hide Larger and More Customizable Start Menu

Microsoft is testing a redesigned version of the Windows 11 Start Menu internally with a larger layout and more granular controls. This new version of the Start Menu is hidden in recent Windows 11 24H2 and 23H2 preview builds, but enthusiasts can already enable it using third-party tools. X user @phantomofearth spotted this redesigned Start … Read more

Back to basics: Microsoft tests overhauled Start menu in Windows 11 beta builds

Back to basics: Microsoft tests overhauled Start menu in Windows 11 beta builds

Microsoft continues to tweak the Windows 11 UI in other ways as well. A beta build released to Windows Insider testers earlier this month enables “taskbar icon scaling,” which can shrink your taskbar icons to a smaller size to make more of them if you have enough apps pinned or opened at the same time … Read more