Android Stories for 2021

BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022 67
Google Pushes Developers To Adapt Android Apps for Chromebooks 12
Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones 10
Apple Launches AirTags and Find My Detector App For Android, In Effort To Boost Privacy 57
Android Games Are Coming To Windows PCs In 2022 19
Google Says Bug With Teams and Android Can Cause 911 Calls To Fail 44
Google Readies 'Pixel Watch' For 2022 Launch 25
Qualcomm's New Always-On Smartphone Camera Is a Privacy Nightmare 53
Over 300,000 Android Users Have Downloaded These Banking Trojan Malware Apps, Say Security Researchers 23
Amazon Appstore Still Broken On Android 12 a Month After OS Release 29
Tim Cook: Users Who Want To Sideload Apps Can Use Android 271
Google To Allow Third Party App Payments for First Time in South Korea 9
Netflix Launches Into Video Games for Android 20
Newly-Discovered 'AbstractEmu' Malware Rooted Android Devices, Evaded Detection 34
Why Aren't There More Open Source Solutions for Mobile Devices? 90
Google's India Smartphone With Custom Android OS Launches November 4 For $87 13
Location Data Firm Got GPS Data From Apps Even When People Opted Out 19
Android's 12L Feature Drop Aims To Be a Big Improvement for Folding Phones 40
Google Lowers Play Store Fees To 15% on Subscription Apps, as Low as 10% for Media Apps 7
Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones 11
Google Revamps Its Smartphone Line With the Pixel 6 50
Apple Argues Against Allowing App Sideloading By Pointing Out Android's Malware Figures 66
Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users 113
iPhone Apps No Better For Privacy Than Android, Oxford Study Finds 22
Google Exec Calls on Apple To Adopt Better, More Secure Text Messaging 66
Google Releases Android 12 To AOSP, But No Pixel Launch Today 14
Samsung Removes Ads From Its One UI Android Apps 16
Fairphone's Latest Sustainable Smartphone Comes With a Five-Year Warranty 65
New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones 30
Google Sues India's Competition Commission - For Sharing Its Findings About Google 18
Google Photos' Nude-Friendly Folders Coming To All Android Phones Soon 61
Microsoft Debuts Surface Duo 2 Dual-Screen Android Phone With Larger Displays and 5G 27
Google Finally Shifting To 'Upstream First' Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features 9
Google Will Extend Permission Auto-Reset Feature To Older Android Versions 21
South Korea's Antitrust Regulator Fines Google $177 Million for Abusing Mobile Market Dominance 27
Facebook Unveils Superpack, a New Compression Technique 54
Pixel 3 and 3 XL Phones Are Getting Stuck In EDL Mode and Seemingly Bricked 72
Windows 11 Won't Include Android App Support at Launch 35
Consumers Spent $40 Billion On App Store In First Half of 2021, Nearly Double That of Google Play Store 47
Samsung Kills the Cameras On the Galaxy Z Fold 3 If You Unlock the Bootloader 78
'Android Auto For Phone Screens' Is Shutting Down 22
Google Gave Phone Makers Extra Money To Ditch Third-Party App Stores 18
The Google Pixel 5a Is $449, Adds a Bigger Screen and Water Resistance 58
How Google Bought Android -- According To Folks in the Room 32
Will Google's Tensor Chip Spell Trouble for 5G? 140
Google Will Kill Off Very Old Versions of Android Next Month 47
Google Play Gets Mandatory App Privacy Labels In April 2022 13
New Android Malware Uses VNC To Spy and Steal Passwords From Victims 15
Google Bans 'Sugar Daddy' Apps From Play Store 119
New Android Malware Records Smartphones via VNC To Steal Passwords 15
Google's Wear OS 3 Update Plans Will Leave Most Existing Devices Behind 15
LG Might Sell iPhones In Its Stores After Quitting Android Devices 20
iOS and Android Activations Now Split Evenly In the US, Research Shows 113
Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV 65
Right-wing Activist's $500 'Freedom Phone' Actually Cheap Rebranded Android Model Made in China 226
Google Meet Now Enforces Group Call Length Limit For Free Gmail Users 40
Android 12 Will Let You Play Games Before They Finish Downloading 57
After Apple's 'App Tracking Transparency', Advertisers Spent More Money Targeting Android Users 21
Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access To Your Contacts and Location 201
'We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals' 70
Qualcomm and ASUS Made a Phone for Snapdragon Insiders 16
Google to Be Sued by States Over Alleged Play Store Abuse 23
OnePlus 9 Benchmarks Deleted From Geekbench Over Cheating Allegations 27
Apple and Google Crowd Out the Competition With Default Apps 79
OnePlus Commits To 3 Years of Android Updates By Merging OxygenOS With Oppo's ColorOS 35
Microsoft Engineer Confirms You Can Sideload Android APKs On Windows 11 31
Microsoft Announces Windows 11 Will Be Able To Run Android Apps 92
Google and India's Jio Platforms Announce Budget Android Smartphone JioPhone Next 2
India Orders Antitrust Investigation Against Google Over Smart TV Market 5
Leaked Memo Confirms OnePlus Will Become An Oppo Sub-Brand 19
The Android Messages App Now Offers End-To-End Encryption 55
Google Will Let Rivals Appear As Default Search Engine Options On Android For Free 7
Google Bows To EU, Rivals With Android Choice-Screen Tweaks 15
FaceTime is Coming To Android and Windows Via the Web 57
Google is Making it Harder for Android Apps To Track You Once You've Opted Out 16
Huawei's HarmonyOS Arrives With iPad-Inspired Tablet UI, Apparent Android Base 39
Just a Handful of Android Apps Exposed Data of More than 100 Million Users 21
Opera Brings Its Gaming Browser To Mobile 13
Google Shows Off Android 12's Huge UI Overhaul 52
There Are Over 3 Billion Active Android Devices 66
Voice Social Network Clubhouse Arrives on Android 14
Eddy Cue Wanted To Bring iMessage To Android In 2013 102
Samsung's New Upcycling Program Allows You To Turn An Old Galaxy Phone Into a New IoT Device 22
T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T Have Reportedly Killed Their RCS Joint Venture 55
The Google Shopping App Is Shutting Down 29
APKPure App Contained Malicious Adware, Say Researchers 31
Apple Says iMessage on Android 'Will Hurt Us More Than Help Us' 231
Google Illegally Tracking Android Users, According To New Complaint 28
Google Now Supports Rust for Underlying Android OS Development 28
Android 12 Adds a New Device Search API For Third-Party Launchers 4
What We're Expecting From Google's Custom 'Whitechapel' SoC In the Pixel 6 16
LG To Shut Down Smartphone Business 50
Google Play Limiting Android 11+ Apps From Seeing What's Installed on Devices This May 27
Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana on iOS and Android 40
Google Collects 20 Times More Telemetry From Android Devices Than Apple From iOS 113
Google Launches 'Android Ready SE Alliance' To Drive Adoption of Digital Keys, Mobile IDs 52
A New Android Spyware Masquerades as a 'System Update' 20
Five-Year-Old Fairphone 2 Getting Updated To Almost Three-Year-Old Android 9 57
The OnePlus 9 Pro Has a 120Hz Display, Hasselblad Cameras, and Costs $969 56
Google Play Drops Commissions To 15% from 30%, Following Apple's Move Last Year 50
Google-Free /e/ OS Is Now Selling Preloaded Phones In the US, Starting At $380 44
Bill Gates Prefers 'More Open Nature' of Android, Regrets Microsoft's Missing Phone Market 81
Smart TVs Running Google TV Will Have a 'Basic' Option 173
Google's Password Checkup Feature Coming To Android 34
Samsung Now Updates Android For Longer than Google Does 67
Google Launches the First Developer Preview of Android 12 34
Google Photos Gets New Paywalled Editing Features For Google One Subscribers 13
Android 12 Leak Appears To Show Major Redesign With Color-Changing UI 47
The Nintendo Switch Can Now Run Android 10, Unofficially 20
Android Barcode Scanner With 10 Million+ Downloads Infects Users 54
Google Explores Alternative To Apple's New Anti-Tracking Feature 54
Pakistan Forced Down Apps Made By a Persecuted Religious Minority 95
Hacker Group Inserted Malware In NoxPlayer Android Emulator 2
Robinhood Plummets Back Down To a One-Star Rating on Google Play 97
Google To Allow Gambling Apps In the Play Store 57
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption 62
Pebble Founder Says His New App Brings iMessage To Android With a Little 'Trickery' 57
Samsung Inadvertently Used iPhone To Tweet Galaxy S21 and S21+ Promo 69
Google Reveals Sophisticated Windows and Android Hacking Operation 15
The Galaxy S21 and S21+ Are Samsung's New, More Affordable Flagships 77