Everything you may have missed from the past week.

Android phones may get a speed boost from a deeper software change, one that optimizes the kernel using real-world app usage data more effectively.

Gboard has been my default keyboard on Android, and for good reason. Predictive typing works well, multilingual input is seamless, and voice dictation is incredibly convenient. Recently, I started ...

While Google is restricting app downloads from sources other than the Google Play Store, the company will allow sideloading ...

Chainguard is expanding beyond open-source security to protect open-core software, AI agent skills, and GitHub Actions.

Perseus is a new Android malware that scans note-taking apps to steal passwords, recovery phrases, and sensitive data.

It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than ...

Perseus Android malware uses accessibility abuse via phishing apps to enable device takeover and financial fraud across multiple countries.

Google Design has an interesting article this week about “Designing for Transparent Screens” and the work that went into Jetpack Compose Glimmer, Android XR’s design system for Display AI Glasses. For ...

Keeping up with the latest developer android com tools releases platform-tools can feel like a full-time job. New versions of Android Studio and the SDK tools drop regularly, each bringing changes ...

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 ...

You might have noticed some reporting a few days ago that Android 17 was rolling out in beta form, but that didn’t happen. For reasons Google still has not explained, the release was canceled. Two ...