At Mobile World Congress, Motorola reveals plans to preinstall GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android fork, on smartphones ...

In the coming weeks, Google will officially debut Android developer verification, which will require app makers outside the ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Last summer, Google announced that Android 16 would include a desktop interface built from Samsung DeX, a mirroring and phone integration tool for PC. Thanks to a (now permissions-restricted) bug ...

Android 17 Leak Reveals Glassy Blur UI and New Screen Recorder Your email has been sent Generated with Google Gemini. Android 17 is starting to come into view, with early images suggesting changes ...

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Google is following last year’s Material 3 Expressive redesign on phones by introducing significantly more blur across Android 17. Based on images of internal builds that we and others have seen, ...

Fresh leaks from Android 17’s Canary build suggest that Google is actively working on how notifications behave for locked apps. According to a new Android Authority report, notifications from apps ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Google updated its Android Source pages today with a change for when it publishes source code to AOSP. In ...

With iOS 26.3, Apple is making it simpler for iPhone users to transition to an Android smartphone, with new built-in tools for transferring data. The new transfer tool allows an ‌iPhone‌ user to place ...

Google's monthly system services update went live on December 1, 2025. The updates always pertain to an update for the Android operating system and/or key system services with security, new ways to ...