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

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, ...

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It can nick whatever's visible on your screen, think two-factor codes, chat threads, or location timelines, in under 30 seconds.

Some codes are specific to certain models, but other, more generic codes can be accessed on nearly any Android device. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett You might not know this, but your Android device ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...