Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple reportedly flew five cargo planes from India to the US in late March to stockpile iPhones ahead of tariffs. While the airlift buys Apple time, the tariff hit is inevitable. Android OEMs, particularly ...
Sign in to your Android Police account Summary Google to release an update fixing two critical zero-day bugs. The vulnerability could lead to attacks without user interaction. The source code patches will be available in the Android Open Source Project ...
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority When you update your Android phone, what’s the first thing you do? Chances are, you head to Settings and check for updates in the software update section, right? And hey, that’s totally fine. That’s ...
Summary: Android 16 is set to speed up app installations with a new “cloud compilation” feature that offloads parts of the process to the cloud. This should help apps install faster, especially on lower-end devices, though we’ll have to wait ...
Robert Triggs / Android Authority Over the years as I’ve tried different brands and switched between smartphone manufacturers, I’ve become a more scrutinizing consumer. For my first smartphone, I just bought what the sales representative suggested, because there weren’t that ...
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority If I had a penny for every single time I checked my Android phone for updates and got the all-clear “Your system is up to date” notice when there was actually a hidden update ...
Ryan Haines / Android Authority If we’ve compared Android to iOS once, we’ve compared them a hundred times. At this point, we may have actually compared them a hundred times. It’s not always the same comparison — we’ve looked at ...
Summary: Android 16 will require devices to support Vulcan’s new Host Image Copy feature. This will improve gaming and 3D graphics performance, and reduce stuttering. Android has been leveraging the more efficient Vulcan API for many years. With Android 16’s ...
Summary: Microsoft has pushed an update to the Phone Link app to fix its inability to mirror sensitive notifications on a Windows PC. As part of the update, the preinstalled Link to Windows app now requests permission from Android smartphone ...
Summary: A Desktop Android version of Chrome, meant for Chromebooks, has started supporting browser extensions. While not intended for release on the Play Store, it can be manually installed on most Android phones and tablets as well. A big drawback ...
