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 ...

It takes just one second to make sure my phone isn't recording ...

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 ...

Android is now "gradually" rolling out the new "advanced" sideloading flow used with the developer verification system.

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, ...

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

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 ...

As someone who loves repurposing old hardware, I was ecstatic upon realizing I could use Podroid to run containerized ...

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 ...

Google's advanced sideloading flow is finally rolling out, letting power users skip ADB, but you'll need to flip a toggle, verify yourself, and wait 24 hours first.

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