Android Stories for 2023

Microsoft Quietly Launches Dedicated Copilot App For Android 14
Beeper's iMessage Connection Software Open Sourced. What Happens Next? 85
Android May Soon Tell You When It's Time To Replace Your Phone's Battery 69
Alphabet, States Reach $700 Million Deal in Google Play Feud 20
Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android? 152
Google Play Movies, TV Apps Shutting Down In January 2024 12
Beeper's iMessage App for Android is Back 82
Apple Blocks 'Beeper Mini', Citing Security Concerns. But Beeper Keeps Trying 90
Android Vulnerability Exposes Credentials From Mobile Password Managers 22
Apple and Google Pick AllTrails and Imprint As Their 'App of the Year' 14
Activision Blizzard Had a Plan, or Ploy, To Launch Its Own Android Game Store 10
Microsoft Phone Link May Soon Let You Use Your Android Phone As a Webcam 35
Firefox for Android is Getting Over 400 More Extensions in December 25
Epic Games' Sweeney Takes Aim at Android's 'Fake Open Platform' 28
A Secret Google Deal Let Spotify Completely Bypass Android's App Store Fees 22
Nothing's iMessage App Was a Security Catastrophe, Taken Down In 24 Hours 47
Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE's Programming Language Popularity Index 52
Samsung Says Hackers Accessed Customer Data During Year-Long Breach 7
Children's Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kids' Data, Researcher Finds 37
Nothing is Bringing iMessage To Its Android Phone 146
Amazon is Ditching Android for Fire TVs, Smart Displays 50
Google-led App Defense Alliance Joins Linux Foundation 17
Google Photos' Magic Editor Will Refuse To Make Some Edits 50
Epic Games Goes To Court To Challenge Google's App Store Practices 63
Google Plans RISC-V Android Tools In 2024, Wants Developers To 'Be Ready' 47
Google Promises a Rescue Patch For Android 14's 'Ransomware' Bug 33
Android 14 Storage Bug Has Users Locked Out of Their Devices 18
Google Falsely Flags Samsung Apps as 'Harmful,' Tells Users To Remove Them 45
Android Will Now Scan Sideloaded Apps For Malware At Install Time 41
Qualcomm Announces First-ever Mass-market RISC-V Android SoC 17
Lenovo Will Soon Distribute Devices Powered By the Esper Foundation OS 16
Google Removes the Photo Sphere Mode From the Pixel 8 Camera 9
Android Devices With Backdoored Firmware Found In US Schools 36
Lenovo To Offer Android PCs, Starting With an All-In-One That Can Pack a Core i9 25
Android 14 Officially Releases for Pixel Phones 20
Russian Zero-Day Seller Offers $20 Million for Hacking Android and iPhones 33
Android 14 Adds Support for Using Smartphones as Webcams 69
Microsoft Cuts Ties With the Surface Duo After Just 2 Android Version Updates 62
Android 14 Still Doesn't Calculate Device Storage Utilization Correctly 22
Russia Targets Ukraine With New Android Backdoor, Intel Agencies Say 24
Google Removes Fake Signal and Telegram Apps Hosted on Play 12
ASUS Reportedly Shuts Down Zenfone Division, No More Compact Flagships 15
Latest Android Runtime (ART) Update Led To Apps Starting 30% Faster 13
Do US Teens Hate Android Phones? 218
Mozilla To Bring Firefox Desktop Extension To Android Browser 30
ChatGPT For Android Is Now Available 15
Google Says It Will Start Downranking Non-Tablet Apps In the Play Store 50
Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You 63
Android's Now Better Than iOS, Instagram Boss Says 137
ChromeOS 115 Rolling Out: Android App Streaming, PDF Signatures 4
Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging 21
Fairphone 3 Gets Seven Years of Updates, Besting Every Other Android OEM 34
Android Phone Hits 24GB of RAM, As Much As a 13-Inch MacBook Pro 60
The User-Repairable Fairphone 4 Is Finally Coming To the US 65
Android's Emergency Call Shortcut Is Flooding Dispatchers With False Calls 51
Motorola Unveils Its 4th-Gen Foldable, the Moto Razr+ 39
Inner Workings Revealed For 'Predator,' the Android Malware That Exploited 5 0-Days 11
'iRecorder Screen Recorder' App Turns Malicious, Sends Mic Recordings Every 15 Minutes 31
Brute-Force Test Attack Bypasses Android Biometric Defense 35
Lawsuit Accuses DoorDash of Charging iPhone Users More For Identical Orders 77
Millions of Android Phones and TVs May Come with Preinstalled Malware 19
Google Will Soon Let Pixel Phones Double As Dashcams 35
Bluetooth Tags For Android's 3 Billion-Strong Tracking Network Are Here 23
Android 14 Will Add More Customization To Your Home and Lock Screens 21
Google Launches an AI Coding Bot For Android Developers 16
Google's New Pixel Tablet Is a $500 Slate For the Home 81
Google Unveils Pixel 7a With Tensor G2, 90Hz Display and 64MP Camera 16
The Microsoft Surface Duo Is in Trouble 41
Google Play Has Created a No-Win Situation For the Creators of Icon Packs 41
Jack Dorsey's Bluesky App Is Now On Android 28
Google's 'Android for Cars' Platform Now Supports IoT Apps 10
Android 14's First Beta Introduces a Back Arrow That Matches Your Background 22
South Korea Fines Google $32 Million for Blocking Games on Competing Platform 13
How Much To Infect Android Phones Via Google Play Store? How About $20K 13
Google Will Require That Android Apps Let You Delete Your Account and Data 42
GM Plans To Phase Out Apple CarPlay In EVs, With Google's Help 121
Lenovo Gives Up on Its Dream of Android Gaming Phones 14
Pinduoduo App Malware Detailed By Cybersecurity Researchers 4
Pebble Might Be Coming Back - as a Small Android Phone 18
Google Pixel Bug Lets You 'Uncrop' the Last Four Years of Screenshots 29
Google Warns Users To Take Action To Protect Against Remotely Exploitable Flaws in Popular Android Phones 55
Google Discontinues the Glass Enterprise Edition 27
Google Rolls Out Fall Detection To All Pixel Watch Users 11
Data Privacy Labels for Most Top Apps in Google Play Store are False or Misleading, Mozilla Study Finds 17
Google, Complying With Regulatory Order, Supports Third-Party Billing in India 3
Google Starts Beta Testing Its Rebrand of Interest-based Ad-targeting on Android 24
Android 14 Preview 1 is Out, Will Officially Ban Installation of Old Apps 48
Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB 92
Google To Make Changes To Android Business Terms in India After Antitrust Blow 5
Android 14 Set To Block Certain Outdated Apps From Being Installed 35
Android 13 Is Running On 5.2% of All Devices Five Months After Launch 77
India's Top Court Rejects Google Plea To Block Android Antitrust Ruling in Major Blow 21
Google Reportedly Working On 'Grogu' Tracker To Compete With Apple's AirTags 40
Android TV Box On Amazon Came Pre-Installed With Malware 35
Google Says India Antitrust Order Poses Threat To National Security 12
Microsoft Scraps Plans For Dual-Screen Surface Duo 3, Pivots To New Foldable Screen Design 25
The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates 20
Google Wants RISC-V To Be a 'Tier-1' Android Architecture 61
Google Alleges India Antitrust Body Copied Parts of EU Order on Android Abuse 36