Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Almost every app we use or develop has to store data for one purpose or another. It’s not all the same data, either — some apps need access to settings, images, and much more. The big question is how ...

One of the security updates baked into Android 14 is a feature that blocks you from installing some older apps built for Android 5.1 or earlier… kind of. If you’ve got a shiny new phone or tablet ...

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 ...

The Google Assistant received a significant amount of airtime at this year’s Google I/O event. Among other things, Google announced a new keyboard feature for Google Assistant. However, one of the ...

When people ask me why I prefer Android over that (cough, cough) other mobile platform, the answer is a little complicated. Sure, I like the diversity and different options Android affords me in terms ...

One of the coolest features of the Kindle Fire is Amazon’s proprietary Silk browser, an application designed to leverage Amazon’s massive server resources by precaching Web pages and delivering them ...

Have you ever copied several movies to your smartphone or PC, but VLC media player is not detecting them? Here's how to manually include a directory to VLC's media Library. VLC doesn't have a ...

A new app called Winlator allows you to play some PC games on your Android phone. We tested a variety of games, but few are playable in our experience. You should wait for the upcoming Cassia app, ...