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 ...

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 ...

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

Coders have a storied tradition of creating back doors in programs (or sometimes just fun little Easter eggs) that can only be accessed with a special "key." This has happened for almost as long as ...

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 ...