The Android operating system is home to countless features, be it useful utilitarian toggles or gimmicky customization tweaks. Thanks to this bucket load of options, an Android phone can do several ...

As part of the September 2023 Google System Updates, Android is set to gain better support for using a PIN with the FIDO2 security standard, among other improvements. Update: Ahead of the expected ...

Google used this year's I/O developer event to reiterate a 2024 announcement that almost escaped unnoticed: Android Auto will get several new app categories, including browsers, so drivers will be ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Many flagship phones ship with more RAM than the average laptop, which helps them handle heavy image processing algorithms ...

Google is killing off its proposal for “Web Environment Integrity API” as a new web standard, though Android phones may still have to deal with it. According to Google’s proposal document, the primary ...

Your Android phone comes pre-installed with several apps. If you have a phone that runs stock Android, like a Google Pixel, these will mostly consist of Google's own ...

Android, the popular mobile phone OS, is essentially just Linux with a nice user interface layer covering it all up. In theory, it should be able to do anything a normal computer running Linux could ...

I’ve been covering Android since 2022, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones. I’ve got a bachelor’s in IT with a major in AI, so I naturally ...

Your phone’s web browsing just got faster-assuming you’re on Android. Google announced that Android devices with Chrome now outperform all competing mobile platforms on standardized web browsing ...