Older Android phones, tablets and car systems will lose access to new Waze features as the app drops support for Android versions below 10.

Android typically forces low-priority apps to sleep so that they don't drain your phone's battery. Putting apps to sleep means they won't consume a lot of power and won't run in the background ...

Starting with Android Oreo (version 8), the operating system switched to a faster decompression algorithm (LZ4), which allowed the bootloader to unpack the kernel faster. The boot animation was also ...

F-Droid says Google's developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends ...

If you’ve ever opened your brand-new Android phone and found a bunch of pre-installed apps you never asked for — and likely ...

The first update to Android 16 QPR1 is rolling out with the October security patch for the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, ...

A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day. The ad fraud campaign was ...

Amazon's Fire TV is getting a rebirth with Vega OS, but it sounds like the experience at launch might not be what some fans ...

For years, my Android home screen has been a rotating graveyard of task management apps. I have jumped from minimalist to ...

Motorola kicked off the beta program for the latest Android 16 OS for its smartphone back in June, and has managed to roll out the stable build of Android 16 to select devices earlier today (8th ...

After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores ...

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