The Android settings menu helps you manage apps, check battery health, diagnose network issues, and scan for threats. It also displays details such as your device's name, software version, and memory ...

The bad news from Coverity's research: there are plenty of problems in Android. Good news: it's less than the going rate. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

There are secret dialer codes in the dynamic world of Android smartphones. These number combinations open up a world of functions, diagnostics, and settings that go far beyond the familiar interface ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel. Kroah-Hartman removed the code in December, noting that Android ...

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Google announced a fresh set of security updates for the Android platform, to address two vulnerabilities in the System component.

While iOS has its advantages, the ace in Android‘s deck is customization. Because there are fewer walls in place, you can make it do more, sometimes in ways phone makers never intended. There is, in ...

Malicious apps can now steal sensitive data by exploiting your phone’s graphics processing without requesting any permissions. Your Android phone just became a surveillance device, and you probably ...

At the core of every flagship Android phone, underneath the layers of brand-specific and device-specific extras, lies the same open-source foundation of Android, the Android Open Source Project. To ...

Google has uploaded the majority of the remaining Chrome for Android code into the open-source Chromium repository. In other words, Chrome for Android now matches Chrome for desktop in terms of ...