Google Maps wants to capture that Waze-like fun, and it's doing so by borrowing one of the latter's signature features. For reference, Google's flagship navigation app gained custom vehicle icons back ...

Waze is not only the king of traffic data thanks to its built-in incident reporting engine, but at the same time, it's also the king of customization options in the navigation software space. It ...

Android users are finally catching up with a cool feature that iPhone users have had for a few years on Google Maps. Google has finally rolled out custom car icons for the Android version of Maps ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google began testing custom vehicle icons in Google Maps on iOS back last year in November and then began rolling them out to a few Android users in December. Now, the Google Maps App on Android is ...

Right now, if you tap the blue arrow while navigating in Google Maps, you get the option to swap it out for blocky, cartoonish vehicle icons. But Android Police has spotted some new ones — along with ...

Google Maps on Android should be the “main” iteration of the navigation app but like many Google applications, features bleed through to iOS first, then come to Android later. The latest such change ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google Maps on Android has got vehicle icons. This is a kind of surreptitious rollout by Google and many beta users of Google Maps may not even have known that they could change the vehicle icon to ...

It is Google’s way of bringing some quirky elements to its apps that elevate the user experience. Though it may not sound like much, in the latest Google Maps Android update, Google has added new ...