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You might have noticed some reporting a few days ago that Android 17 was rolling out in beta form, but that didn’t happen. For reasons Google still has not explained, the release was canceled. Two ...

PCWorld reports that Google disrupted IPIDEA, the world’s largest residential proxy network that secretly hijacked 9 million Android devices through hidden SDKs in free apps. The network turned ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Rewind almost 15 years, and the Android ROM scene was thriving. Nightly builds, tons of projects, we truly were living in a golden age. Nowadays, things have changed significantly. Just what happened ...

The Android operating system is a staple in the mobile smartphone space. Android 16 recently received a huge redesign, and the OS as a whole has a higher market share than Apple's iOS. One of the best ...

Google released the January 2026 Android Security Bulletin, fixing a critical zero-click vulnerability in the Dolby Digital Plus Codec. While Pixel users already received this patch in December, they ...

Android source code releases, better known as AOSP releases, will no longer be coming multiple times a year, as Google confirms that it’s transitioning to pushing them out only twice a year instead.

After a somewhat underwhelming release last year, privacy-focused brand Punkt is back with the new MC03 smartphone, which is based on Android and ships with “AphyOS,” and coming to the US this year.

Google's December 2025 security update patched 107 vulnerabilities for Android devices. For a complete catalog of all the issues, you can refer to the update notes hosted on the the Android Security ...