Android Stories for 2014

Twitter Bug Locks Out Many Users 69
Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 60
De-escalating the Android Patent War 63
Manufacturer's Backdoor Found On Popular Chinese Android Smartphone 82
$35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O 140
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay 73
A Rift In OnePlus, Cyanogen Relationship 69
Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug 39
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Android Botnet Evolves, Could Pose Threat To Corporate Networks 54
NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored 57
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) 192
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
Popular Smartphones Hacked At Mobile Pwn2Own 2014 52
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
Apple Releases iMessage Deregistration Utility 136
Start-Up Vsenn Emerges From Stealth With Project Ara Modular Phone Competitor 30
New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay 122
Microsoft Makes Office Mobile Editing Free As in Freemium 98
Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again 214
Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google 82
Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal 59
Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files 113
Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? 108
Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own 172
Google Releases Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images 77
Android On Intel x86 Tablet Performance Explored: Things Are Improving 97
Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 201
Microsoft Develops Analog Keyboard For Wearables, Solves Small Display Dilemma 100
Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption 146
Cyanogen Inc. Turns Down Google, Seeing $1 Billion Valuation 107
Samsung Paid Microsoft $1 Billion Last Year In Android Royalties 93
Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices 427
Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? 316
Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? 253
Android Apps Now Unofficially Able To Run On Any Major Desktop OS 101
Robot Operating System To Officially Support ARM Processors 33
Chrome OS Can Now Run Android Apps With No Porting Required 133
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android 77
European Commission Reopens Google Antitrust Investigation 96
Carmack On Mobile VR Development 60
Moto 360 Reviews Arrive 87
Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support 220
Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung 67
MIPS Tempts Hackers With Raspbery Pi-like Dev Board 88
Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices 61
Researchers Hack Gmail With 92 Percent Success Rate 87
Apple CarPlay Rollout Delayed By Some Carmakers 76
Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding 126
Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con 46
F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data 164
Google Fit Preview SDK Arrives For Android Developers 13
Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China 82
Microsoft Files Legal Action Against Samsung Over Android Patent Dispute 83
Google, Linaro Develop Custom Android Edition For Project Ara 46
Old Apache Code At Root of Android FakeID Mess 127
$299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed 65
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show 281
NVIDIA Launches Tegra K1-Based SHIELD Tablet, Wireless Controller 42
MicroxWin Creates Linux Distribution That Runs Debian/Ubuntu & Android Apps 42
Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption 91
Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos 231
All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) 60
Android Wear Is Here 129
Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi 112
ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Developers 69
Project Tango is Giving Mobile Devices a Sense of Space and Motion (Video) 16
KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices 71
Google I/O 2014 Begins [updated] 49
First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android 193
Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL 128
Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks 100
Amazon's Android Appstore Coming To BlackBerry 76
Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator 167
Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents 140
New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure 249
Intel Confronts a Big Mobile Challenge: Native Compatibility 230
Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' 711
HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop 121
HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises 182
Android iBanking Malware Still Fetches $5,000 25
Ouya's Unsung Strength: Multiplayer For Parties 54
Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android 415
Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC 81
$7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online 201
Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java 303
Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones 221
Canonical (Nearly) Halts Development of Ubuntu For Android 55
Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android 269
OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone 196
Google's New Camera App Simulates Shallow Depth of Field 127
Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment 93
Amazon Reportedly Launching Smartphone This Year 38
The Verge: Google Is Working on a TV Box Of Its Own 117
Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android 161
Amazon Launches Android-Powered 'Fire TV' For Streaming and Gaming 180
Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 92
Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears 198
Ouya Dropping 'Free-to-Play' Requirement 107
One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation 117
Google Android Studio Vs. Eclipse: Which Fits Your Needs? 140
Google Unveils Android Wear 103
Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Devices 153
Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases 321
Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices 126
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? 374
Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? 194
New Tool Makes Android Malware Easier To Create 42
F-Secure: Android Accounted For 97% of All Mobile Malware In 2013 193
Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS 487
Ouya CEO Talks Console's Tough First Year, and Ambitious "Ouya Everywhere" Plan 134
Sundar Pichai: Android Designed For Openness; Security a Lower Priority 117
Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone 105
Amazon To Put Android In Set-top Box To Compete With Apple, Roku 104
Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability 120
Google's Definition of 'Open' 168
Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services 163
Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets 146
Microsoft Rumored To Integrate Android Apps 189
Ask Slashdot: Local Sync Options For Android Mobile To PC? 146
Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM 140
Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone 249
The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You 52
Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory? 139
Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? 293
Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store 225
VPN Encryption Vulnerability On Android 77
China's Government Unveils 'China Operating System' To Great Skepticism 223
Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" 156
Google Launches Android Automotive Consortium 117
Nvidia Announces 192-Core Tegra K1 Chips, Bets On Android 128
Ask Slashdot: Best App For Android For Remote Access To Mac Or PC? 165
NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Tested, Fastest Android 4.3 Slate Under $200 107