Google has slowly been updating the look of the floating action button (FAB) for Material 3 Expressive across its Android apps. Last year we saw new FAB designs getting ready for Google Drive and ...

Google’s Biggest Android Security Update in Years Fixes 129 Bugs, Including an Actively Exploited Zero-Day Your email has been sent Google just dropped its largest security update in nearly eight ...

Google has agreed to a $135 million class-action settlement to resolve claims that it carried out passive data transfers through the Android operating system without consumers’ knowledge or consent.

Android 17 Beta 1 was supposed to launch today, but Google has since pulled the release. The Android 17 Beta was supposed to debut at 10 am PT. We and other publications posted our coverage at that ...

Google says Android 17 Beta 1 will arrive soon, following the final Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 patch. Devices still enrolled in the Android Beta Program will automatically receive Android 17 Beta 1.

Besides replacing Developer Previews, the Android 17 Beta cycle is operating on a faster release schedule. The continuous Android Canary channel introduced last year has replaced Developer Previews.

Google has agreed to pay $203 million in separate settlements involving claims that it collecting cell data without permission and "wrongfully" recorded and disseminating private audio data. Android ...

Google on Wednesday released the first beta of Android 17, which brings performance improvements and a way to add new features to media and camera apps. Most importantly, it’s changing how developers ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

LineageOS is a popular custom Android distribution, allowing many phones and tablets (even ancient ones) to run a clean version of Android with optional Google services. Now, LineageOS 23.2 has ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...