Dark mode is more than the new cool, and it has become the new way of life for Google apps like Search, Assistant and the discover mode all goes dark. These are 3 more apps that have taken the dark theme in addition to others like Google Calendar, Google Photos, YouTube, Google keep in anticipation for the Android Q release.

The Dark modes are going out in stages by a server-side update and requires the latest beta version of the Google App (v10.4.3), but having the last version might not necessarily guarantee the dark theme, so only whosoever be worthy may be granted the power of Google dark mode.

Similar to the other apps that have taken the black, it isn’t a true dark theme but closer to a dark grey color which gives benefit of saving the eyes from the blinding white while not using a strong dark contrast of 100% black.

When enabled, the entire Google app switches to dark grey, including all the searches, the bottom tab, the in-app Discover feed (which already supported dark mode in the launcher, when a user swipes right on the home screen, but wasn’t carried through into the Google app until now), collections, recent searches and all settings.

Everything relating to Assistant was also darkened, the Explore section for discovering new things you can try, to all the Pop-up, the dash board and all the Assistant settings.

When rolled out to an android device, it can be activated in Settings> General, where a Dark theme will be the penultimate item on the list.

iMovies, Apple’s video editing application, has not ceased to impress and improve since its debut in 2010, though a lot of major features have been intermittent only in recent years.

The latest version (2.2.7) of the advanced video editing app, able to edit 4k footage without stuttering (and it’s free), has added a feature “The green screen support” which is so mind blowing, it blows other orthodox mobile phone video editors out of the water.

The feature allows the user take footage recorded against a green screen (a blue screen too would do justice) and replace its background easily while keeping the subject. THE update gives the following features:

• Transform your video with the new green screen effect that lets you remove the background on clips shot in front of a green or blue screen
• Adjust the green screen effect with a 4-point mask and strength slider
• Choose from 80 new soundtracks in genre including pop, chill, and sentimental that automatically adjust to match the length of your movie
• Drop in still images with transparent backgrounds to use as logos or custom graphics on top of your video
• Add photos as overlays to create picture-in-picture and split-screen effects
• Choose to hide the border that surrounds picture-in-picture and split-screen effects
• Instantly return to the edit screen of your project when switching back to iMovies from other applications
• ClassKit support lets students deliver videos assignments to teachers using the schoolwork app
• For users with videos in iMovies theater, the theater window is now available from  the ···  menu at the bottom of the projects screen
• Sharing to iMovies theater is no longer supported; save your movies and trailers to iCloud Photos to watch them on other devices including Apple TV
• Resolves an issue that could lead to a black viewer when previewing your video Fullscreen on an external display.  

Apple is introducing the multi-cam support which would allow apps to take photos, video, audio, metadata, and depth from multiple microphones and Cameras on a single iPhone or iPad. This is part of the feature set that we are expecting with the iOS 13, and we are excited to have it.

Multi-cam support has already been made available to a number of Android devices in some variant or form over the years. Macs have also supported this feature for a while.

This feature will allow developers create apps that stream videos or take pictures or audio using both the front camera and the rear camera at the same time. The Multi-Cam support is only going to be made available to latest devices from Apple like the iPhone XS, XS Max, XR and the latest iPad Pro (which will be through iPadOS).

There are certain combinations that can be performed on these devices. The regular and telephoto camera on the rear of the iPhone, or the selfie camera and the regular rear camera, and there are combinations that would allow the use of the TrueDepth selfie camera

The new feature was presented during WWDC, with a demo picture-in-picture video recording app that was recording the user from the front-facing camera while recording from the main camera simultaneously. The app enabled the ability to swap between the two cameras during playback in the photos app, a feature which would give developers control over the TrueDepth cameras.

Mobile devices will be limited to a single session of multi-cam unlike the mac, iPhones and iPad due to power constraints.

Since the recent release of the OnePlus 7 Pro, there have been complaints by users about the camera and the touch sensitivity. Fortunately, users can rest easy now as things are about to get much better with the new update that has hit the unit.

 The OnePlus 7 Pro camera left a lot of room for improvement and the Asian OEM is not leaving any stone unturned in ensuring the camera gets to maximum capacity.  This update will have tremendous improvements on the camera as OnePlus released samples comparing the performance of the camera before and after the update and the results were satisfactory. 

The changelog for the camera in OxygenOS 9.7.5 update includes:

• Improved overall contrast and color performance
• Improved white balance consistency of triple camera
• Improved accuracy and stability of autofocusing
• Fixed issue of greenish tone in some low light scenes
• Fixed issue of contrast and color saturation of ultra-wide
• Improved clarity and noise reduction in low light scene of ultra-wide
• Improved clarity and noise reduction of telephoto
• Improved clarity and color of Nightscape
• Improved brightness and clarity in extreme low light scene of Nightscape

The update also improves the touch sensitivity on the OnePlus 7 pro which will probably address the ‘phantom tap’ issues which some users have complained about. Beyond that, the update makes improvements in the ambient display and tap-to-wake feature while also beefing up the audio quality of voice calls made through third-party applications.

The update became available on June 6, and you should already have a notification to get yours.