Android Authority

How to use a web API from your Android app

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...
Android Authority

How to hide your API Key in Android

Many Android apps that interact with the cloud use a client – server architecture with the phone acting as a client and much of the heavy lifting taking place on the server. Sometimes you have control ...
Android Police

Android N gets support for custom mouse pointers via new API

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...
Ars Technica

Android M Dev Preview delivers permission controls, fingerprint API, and more

SAN FRANCISCO—The next version of Android is official—Google just announced “Android M” at Google I/O 2015. This isn’t a full version of Android; it’s a developer preview like “Android L” (which ...
Android Police

Android Q has an API that allows apps to select which microphone to use

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 ...