iQOO 15 Ultra vs Red Magic 11 Pro: Which gaming beast should you choose?

The iQOO 15 Ultra and Red Magic 11 Pro represent the latest wave of gaming-focused Android flagships built on Qualcomm’s ...
Digital Trends

Android 17’s native app lock may also hide notifications from locked apps

Fresh leaks from Android 17’s Canary build suggest that Google is actively working on how notifications behave for locked apps. According to a new Android Authority report, notifications from apps ...
The Verge

Android 17 might add native game controller remapping.

Normally, you’re kind of stuck with the button mapping video game developers choose, based on your controller of choice. But Android Authority has found evidence in the latest Android Canary release ...
BGR

Yes, You Can Play Steam Games On Your Android Phone - Here's How

Android smartphones are getting more and more powerful with every subsequent generation. There now even exist Android smartphones that are designed specifically for gaming, with the likes of the ...
Android

Google Pixel Phones Are Finally Getting Native Call Recording

A new video provides a first look at the native call recording feature on Google’s Pixel phones. Now appearing in the wild on Pixel 6 and newer models, the feature is legally compliant and simple to ...
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...
GitHub

[ActionBar] Action bar overlays status bar on Android 16

When you compile an app for API 35 or 36 and deploy that to an emulator or device running Android 16 the action bar overlays the status bar, making it impossible to click actions in the action bar.
9to5google

Gemini app rolls out native Audio Overviews player on Android, iOS

Gemini has made a nice quality-of-life update for Audio Overviews on Android and iOS by introducing a native, inline player. Previously, tapping on a generated Audio Overview opened the file in your ...
Android

Google Pixel Phones Will Get Native Flashlight Brightness Controls

A future Android 16 build will introduce native flashlight brightness controls for Pixel phones. This means users will finally be able to adjust the flashlight’s intensity directly from Quick Settings ...
Engadget

A native PS3 emulator for Android is available on the Play Store

We're another step closer to getting PlayStation 3 games to run smoothly on an Android smartphone. A little-known developer has released aPS3e, a PS3 emulator that can natively run on Android, onto ...
Ars Technica

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to ...