While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't upgrade every year. I have ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone ...

Sideloading has been a key part of Android since the beginning, not only delivering a lot of flexibility to Android, but also ...

Google has confirmed that Android will not retire app sideloading, but the company is implementing measures that make the ...

Google has announced a new mechanism in Android called Advanced Flow that will allow sideloading APKs from unverified ...

While Google is restricting app downloads from sources other than the Google Play Store, the company will allow sideloading ...

I used to install a dozen little apps for basic tasks. This Android toolkit replaced almost all of them.

If I wanted Liquid Glass, I’d buy an iPhone. It doesn’t belong on Android. And yet, I’m seeing more and more of Apple’s design language — or half-baked versions of it — pop up in apps on my Google ...

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Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...