Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Android Beam was a feature introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich (Android ...

Android Beam will effectively cease to exist with the introduction of Android Q, according to comments reportedly made by developers on the firmware update at Google I/O 2019. For now, there also ...

If you’re wondering what is NFC on Android, you’re looking at one of the most useful features built into modern smartphones.

Android Beam, which uses NFC connections to send information between Android smartphones, will be dropped from Android Q, but Google is already preparing its replacement in a feature named Fast Share.

Today in “it’s always a good idea to update your devices,” a recently discovered loophole in Android’s NFC-based file-sharing feature, Android Beam, makes it possible for someone to install an app on ...

There are technologies that, at first blush, seem to be the best thing since sliced bread. After years of use, or non-use rather, they turn out to be not so useful after all. One such thing is the NFC ...

Esteemed hacker Charlie Miller, who made a name for himself embarrassing Apple engineers with his iOS hacks, has returned with a big, juicy target in his sites: the Near Field Communications ...

Android Beam was one of the most prominent features when Google released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich back in 2011. The feature allowed for peer-to-peer file sharing via NFC, but it looks like it ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

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Before you can use Android Beam on your phone, you'll need to enable the feature in your settings menu. Once it's enabled, you can use Android Beam by simply holding your phone against another phone ...