Android Studio offers a rich palette of built-in development tools, and an even more abundant plugin ecosystem. The first three articles in this series focused on installation and setup and coding and ...

Developers often struggle with quickly discovering problems in large native code bases and figuring out how to fix them, particularly when developing for Android. Facebook might have a solution. Today ...

To use ADB with your Android device, you must enable a feature called "USB Debugging." Open your phone's app drawer, tap the Settings icon, and select "About Phone." Scroll all the way down and tap ...

Facebook Inc. today announced the open-source release of Sonar, an extensible mobile debugging tool for developers designed to give programmers a better idea of what their app is doing. The software ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

Artem is a die-hard Android fan, passionate tech blogger, obsessive-compulsive editor, bug hunting programmer, and the founder of Android Police and APK Mirror. Most of the time, you will find Artem ...

The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...

Google adds new debugging and performance tools to its Android SDK 20.0 revision. Google adds new debugging and performance tools to its Android SDK 20.0 revision.

Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. Update February 18th, 2:10PM ET: Google released the first of its ...

When it comes to testing your websites there's no such thing as too many developer tools. For example, we routinely test sites in both Firebug and WebKit's developer tools. True, they're very similar, ...