You can hide apps from most Android phone home screens and app drawers so that you have to search for them if you want to use ...

To video chat on an Android device, you'll need to download a third-party app like Facebook Messenger or Zoom.

Dylan Coyle is a reporter for Android Police, and there isn't much he doesn't cover across the Android fold. At a basic level, regardless of how complex a topic is, he tries to make it easier for ...

F-Droid is adding support for Android 15’s app archiving feature, making it the first third-party app store to support the new capability. App archiving is a feature that lets you reclaim storage ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for both iOS and Android users: a new app called Graysky. Though numerous Bluesky projects built on the ...

Third-party launchers sometimes aren’t as smooth as the default launcher, especially regarding animations. The lead developer of the popular Niagara launcher explains that Samsung and Google don’t ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

To rename photos on Android, use the File Manager to locate and rename the photo, third-party apps like PhotoZen for direct renaming, or online tools like Imgtools to upload, rename, and download the ...

Apple has published documentation for a new framework designed to simplify the transfer of third-party app data between iOS ...

But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install.

Big changes are coming to the Android app ecosystem. Late last year, Google came up short in an antitrust case brought by Epic Games, and now the judge has decided on legal remedies. Not only will ...