Navigation apps have evolved a great deal since the earlier times. In 2025, the biggest names remain Waze and Google Maps. Both possess high-end capabilities, but serve somewhat differently towards ...

Back when the Android 16 beta landed in January it added a new feature called “Live Updates." Essentially, this is the Google equivalent to the Live Activities feature on iPhone's Dynamic Island.

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.

google-map-react is a component written over a small set of the Google Maps API. It allows you to render any React component on the Google Map. It is fully isomorphic and can render on a server.

Nelson Aguilar is an LA-based tech how-to writer and graduate of UCLA. With more than a decade of experience, he covers Apple and Google and writes on iPhone and Android features, privacy and ...