Bloatware on Android phones has been around for so long — especially on Samsung and Huawei phones — that it's hardly even news anymore.

After all these years, the core developers of Linux keep innovating. New versions will be faster and more stable. @Enterprisenxt

Sometimes it feels like we’ve been running Google’s mobile OS on our Android devices forever. However, it’s actually been just over a decade since the first official Android phone hit store shelves. The key decision in Android history was Google’s commitment to make Android an open-source operating system. That allowed it to become highly popular with third-party phone makers. Just a few years after the launch of Android 1.0, smartphones powered by the new OS were everywhere.

Soon, you'll be able to run not just Chrome OS, Android, and Linux on your Chromebook but Windows applications as well. Here's how and what that will mean for your company's PCs and laptops.

Google is rolling out a new Android TV update that dumps homescreen ads on your device including some "Staff Picks." Here's how to fend that off, for now.

Startup OnwardMobility will be making the device, with a new keyboard designed in-house

Do you want the cheap one now or 5G later?

We are launching five new features on your Android phone for added safety, restful sleep and more.

Google on Friday evening published a support article meant to clarify the ongoing situation with Huawei. Last year, the United States government barred companies in the US from working with the Chinese hardware maker. “Google is prohibited from working with Huawei on new device models or providing Google’s apps including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, the Play Store and others for preload or download on these devices,” Tristan Ostrowski, legal director for Android and Google Play, wrote in the post, which was picked up by 9to5Google.

Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit.

The Hangouts brand will live on in the consumer chat app that replaced Gchat.

Think you might stop using an app in a few months? This new option is for you.

Google's Messages app is packed with features, including a built-in markup tool, reminders, context-aware recommendations, a dark mode, RCS support,

90Hz and 120Hz panels are the latest trend in the smartphone world but don’t be fooled by the marketing taglines. Not every 120Hz phone offers the same display quality, features, and certainly not the same battery life. There’s a lot that goes into a great display besides just the frame rate on the spec sheet.

Samsung doesn’t release more than two major Android OS updates for its devices and doesn’t really keep flagship devices on the monthly release schedule for security updates beyond three years. That’s just the way it is and there’s no indication of this changing any time soon.

Cleaning it all up is a big job

Google Play Music is expected to permanently shut down later this year.

The very first Android phone, it has been long established, was the HTC G1/Dream. Or at least that's the conventional wisdom. While the G1 was the

Encryption and interoperation: finally and finally again

If you read this blog regularly enough you’ll be familiar with scrcpy, an ace root-free way to mirror your Android smartphone on your Ubuntu desktop and interact with it. Scrcpy is free, it’s open source, it’s awesome. Oh yeah, and it’s updated regularly! Which is what this post is about: telling you what’s new and notable in the latest release, scrcpy 1.14 — so let’s get to it!