July 2021

Google is banning "sugar daddy" apps from its Play Store under its new restrictions on inappropriate content. From September 1, the App Store will ban facilitating "sugar-daddy" services, often involving older and richer people dating and…

Apple's iPhone wins over Android in India and other developing and emerging markets. CEO Tim Cook touts "very powerful" Android Switches and hints the iPhone SE…

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes discusses the multi-state lawsuit claiming Google's app store is a monopoly. Google is banning "sugar daddy" apps from its app store, the company said on Wednesday, in a move that brings the Android…

Gaia GPS launches compatibility with Android Auto, Google's in-car operating system, making Outside, Inc. the first backcountry navigation app designed for the service. Android Auto technology supports some of the most widely available…

Google is preparing to bring more transparency on how Android the applications track and process your personal data. Developers are now required to provide more information about their application which is listed on google playshop.!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…

If you are an android application developer with apps listed on Google play storethat haven't been updated in a while, then the internet search giant has bad news for you. The company has announced that it will close dormant accounts if!-->!-->!-->!-->…

Google LLC's Android developer team today announced two major versions of the product: version 1.0 of Jetpack Compose, Android's toolkit for building native user interfaces, and the stable version of the Android Studio Arctic Fox…

Earlier this year, Google announced plans to make it easier for users to make informed decisions about the privacy and security risks posed by the apps they install from the Google Play Store.Now the company is setting new policies for…

Wednesday's best Android games and apps deals are now available. Along with a new all-time low on OnePlus 9 Pro, new Chromebook deals, and all that awaits you in our Google Deals Hub, now is the time to explore all of today's…

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For those who want to switch from Android to iOS, Apple has updated the “Move to iOS” app for Android for years. As reported by 9to5Google, Google may be looking to create something similar for iOS…

Wow, you really like watching YouTube videos. Google's Android video player app, which was first available to the public on the launch version 1.0 of the very first Android phone, has now been downloaded from the Play Store more than…

Now is the time for all of today's best deals on Android games and apps. You'll find all of this week's hottest hardware deals in our Android and Google hubs, not to mention those Chromebooks, but for now, they're the best apps…

Earlier this month, OnePlus was shut down for limiting the performance of its OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro smartphones in a wide variety of Android apps. The revelation was only brought to light by extensive research by AnandTech, after…

Now we're ready to collect all of Tuesday's best Android games and apps deals. As usual, you'll find all of the best Android hardware price drops in our deals hub alongside our collection of Google deals here. But we're also…

If you've looked at the inner workings of Android, you've heard the term "APK". However, a newer term, "Android App Bundle" (AAB), is becoming more common. What is an AAB and does it replace APKs? Let's talk about that. What is an!-->…

Amazon is making changes to the Amazon Appstore that could end up benefiting from the ability to load Android apps into Windows 11. The store will now support Android App Bundle, which is the new Android app standard that Google has…

Amazon's Appstore has been around for a long, long time, but it recently got into the limelight with Microsoft's announcement of Windows 11. This will be the platform that will install…

About a year ago, Google announced that it would force developers to use its new App Bundles format on the Play Store. We've already written an article about this new format and why this requirement worries some, but here's a quick…

S2 Music Player is a new Android app which not only features a simple and clean user interface for listening to music and managing songs stored on your phone, but also for streaming music from home server using from Jellyfin, Emby or Plex…

Unlike Apple, Android users are not limited to a single Android app store. So when it comes to finding the best apps for your device, the world is truly your oyster. While there is no official Android app store, a vast majority of…

Ever wanted to create your own app, but not sure where to start or which programs to use? Android Studio might be an option for you. What is Android Studio? Android Studio is the official Android Integrated Development Environment…

Internet service Speedtest by Ookla has introduced an app that allows smartphone users to perform speed tests to check the performance of their Wi-Fi connection. Now it can test your network's video streaming capability to tell you if you…

Phones made and sold in China must stop using Google Android by 2025. To be clear, models made in China for international markets can continue to use Google Android. This is a very disruptive decision with profound implications for the…

Starting in August 2021, Google Play will require all new apps to be submitted as Android App Bundles (AABs), which offer greater efficiency than APKs, according to Google. Application bundles are signed binaries that organize…

A Reddit user via rayw_reddit recently posted in the r / Samsung subreddit that he has created a new app to test smartphones for water resistance. The app claims to test IP67 / IP68 seals…

On July 7, a coalition of 36 US states, along with Washington DC, filed an antitrust complaint against Google. The lawsuit accuses the company of abusing its control over the Play Store - the dominant app store for Android devices - to…

Smartphone manufacturers always provide an IP or Ingress rating with the handsets they sell, i.e. whether they have passed a series of tests. However, if you are curious and want to test whether your smartphone is water…

It's been about a decade since I last thought of Apple's old slogan: “There's an app for that. That changed on Wednesday. Apple has nothing to do with it, however. Rather, it was an Android app spotted by Android…

With Google's ambitious plan to move from APKs to Android App Bundles (AAB) as the new standard for apps downloaded from the Play Store, you might be wondering how to load AAB files on your Android device. Is the process of!-->…

Android smartphone users looking to get on the high-resolution audio train via Tidal, Qobuz, or Apple Music should be careful: Android OS resamples digital audio out of its 48kHz USB port. A 192 kHz stream will be down-sampled to 48 kHz.…

Google seems to be making a significant change in the file formats of Android apps. Although apps have already used the APK file format (Android package), Google has now announced that all apps will now move to the AAB (Android…