The Google Play store offers up more than 3 million apps. Some are masterpieces, some are duds. Our guide, which covers 13 key categories, will lead you right to the ones that deserve a place on your Android phone or tablet.

Samsung has been using its Tizen platform on smartwatches ever since 2014's Gear 2 line, but it might go back to its Android 'roots' in the near future. Both SamMobile and well-known leaker Ice Universe claim Samsung is making a smartwatch using Android (possibly Wear OS) rather than its usual platform. It would be the first time Samsung had used Android on the wrist since early products like the Galaxy Gear and Gear Live.

Android Phone is a powerful computer that allows you to plug your phone into any Windows, Mac, or system and then drag and drop files. Android devices easily allow you to access the file system directly from a desktop without any interfaces or procedures.

Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let's Encrypt's transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn't going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious concern earlier due to an expiring root certificate, but Let's Encrypt has come up with a workaround.

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More than one billion Android devices globally are no longer supported by operating system security updates, leaving them potentially exposed to a slew of harmful cyberattacks and their users at risk of being hacked, a study by the UK consumer watchdog Which? has found. By crunching data from Google, Which? calculated that two in every five (40%) of Android devices are currently no longer receiving “vital security updates” from Google, putting them in a high risk category in terms of their susceptibility to malware and other security flaws.

Tasker is one of the most powerful customization tools on Android. It added support for more phone sensors and custom DND settings last month, and it's getting even better in the latest beta release. Beta version 5.9.4 adds support for the power menu controls introduced in Android 11, allowing users to quickly toggle tasks with a simple press and hold of the power button — and that's not all.

We've selected the best email apps for Android in 2020, featuring a selection of email clients with innovative features and a modern user experience.

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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!

Google did not get to hold its annual I/O developer conference this year. The event usually takes place in May and sees Google launch new features, OS updates, and even new hardware. But all that has been put on the back-burner because of the coronavirus pandemic, including, it seems, the Pixel 4a launch.

QR codes are all around us these days. Many offline products like flyers, some newspapers, brochures, posters, and billboards come with them to give you quick access to online resources without you needing to copy some long URLs. QR codes are also great for sharing contact information and Wi-Fi passwords. You need some software in order to read them, though. Luckily, these days most Android phones come with pre-installed solutions, so you don't have to download yet another app. There's also a lightweight website that does the job without trackers and ads, and some browsers even come with built-in scanners.

Android is synonymous with smartphones. It’s the most popular mobile operating system in the world, powering more than 2.5 billion active devices. However, a lot of people don’t know that the OS wasn’t originally designed for phones.

Security experts are warning Android users about a particularly nasty strain of malware that's almost impossible to remove. Researcher Igor Golovin from Kaspersky has written a blog post explaining how the xHelper malware uses a system of nested programs, not unlike a Russian matryoshka doll, that makes it incredibly stubborn.

What might some Android apps be quietly doing behind the backs of their users? The answer, according to a succession of studies, is quite a lot, probably more than some users would be comfortable with if they knew about it.

Don't use a mobile authenticator app on an old smartphone, because the app is only as secure as the operating system in which it's running, two security researchers said at the RSA Conference here earlier this week. Aaron Turner and Georgia Weidman emphasized that using authenticator apps, such as Authy or Google Authenticator, in two-factor authentication was better than using SMS-based 2FA. But, they said, an authenticator app is useless for security if the underlying mobile OS is out-of-date or the mobile device is otherwise insecure.

Google has announced which alternative search engines you'll be able to pick as the default on new Android phones. When they fire up their phone for the first time, users in the EU will be given a choice of non-Google options, which will vary depending on where they live.

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Speaking to The Verge about the Pixel's first Feature Drop update, VP of Product for Pixel Sabrina Ellis claims that one of the features of that

Google's bug bounty rewards help it keep its services and products and thus its customers and users secure, so the company is always looking to expand