Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of ...

A long-missing convenience returns ...

If you use the Google Weather app for Android, you may have noticed a change in its behavior. Rather than opening the app, it ...

Google Play Store will soon flag apps that drain your Android battery, helping users spot power-hungry apps before installing them and pushing developers to improve their inefficient apps. The post ...

If you're interested in going paperless, you probably think you need a scanner. It's true that hardware scanners make turning multipage documents into PDFs very simple. But most of us don't have easy ...

Android 17 will finally address app orientation and resizeability restrictions. It is removing the developer opt-out for orientation and resizability restrictions on large-screen devices. Google is ...

Following the Gemini automation announcement today, Google is detailing how all this works under the hood on Android. Google is “introducing early stage developer capabilities that bridge the gap ...

The Android app, Nearby Glasses, comes from Swiss sociologist and hobbyist coder Yves Jeanrenaud. It scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) activity associated with manufacturers such ...

Google is preparing to turn Pixel’s Now Playing feature into a standalone app distributed via the Play Store. Our findings suggest the app won’t be installable on all Android devices, pointing to ...

Update, February 13, 2026 (02:39 PM ET): We’re a couple days behind schedule now, but Google has finally confirmed the arrival of Android 17 Beta 1. Update, February 11, 2026 (02:20 PM ET): While ...

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 ...