For many apps, granting permission to access your device’s precise location makes sense. Your favorite weather app needs to know where you are to get the day’s forecast, or your go-to fitness app for ...

I can't set up a phone without them ...

The new advanced flow for sideloading adds a 24-hour delay and extra warnings for apps from unverified developers.

Following a long battle in court, Google has opened the floodgates to third-party app store distribution via the Play Store in the US. Starting with just a single option, Aptoide Games, the Google ...

Recent Google Messages beta builds (v20260731 beta onward) have disabled the Android system-level “Clear data” button. This is not a bug, as the accompanying Manifest declarations point to a new, ...

Got an old Android phone or tablet lying around? Turn it into a test server for experiments and development - it's simpler than you think.

It was a fun late-night project, and I had a convincing, native Android app working before I called it a day ...

Got an Android phone? Your location may be being broadcast on more apps than you realize. App developers could be inadvertently sharing user location data with advertisers, according to findings from ...

A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it’s one that Google tried very hard to avoid. The first third-party app store has arrived in Google Play as a result of the long-running antitrust lawsuit ...

Package a Jakarta EE 11 web application and Open Liberty runtime into one runnable JAR with Maven and the Liberty Maven Plugin. Use JUnit, Cucumber, REST Assured, Selenium and JMeter to test Java ...

The agent setup I trust with folders I'd never hand to Claude ...

Thanks to some llama.cpp wizardry, Gemma 4 runs well on my outdated phone ...