Amazon offers affordable products with its Fire series of TV sticks and tablets, which typically come with built-in advertising to lower the sales price. To prevent users from simply disabling the ads ...

Fire OS hack lets you install custom launchers on Fire TV and tablet devices, disable OTA updates, and install blocked apps ...

If you’ve ever opened your brand-new Android phone and found a bunch of pre-installed apps you never asked for — and likely ...

Android will block users from sideloading apps made by unverified developers next year, but we may have found a workaround.

An Android SDK update raises questions about the impact of developer verification on users' ability to sideload apps when offline.

Google's Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 adds custom icons, step tracking, and better performance, but Pixel 10 owners may need to ...

The most notable user-facing change in Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 is the ability to use custom app icon shapes. Besides a circle, ...

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 has arrived for Pixel phones. Google says that this build has reached Platform Stability, meaning that ...

Google has released the second beta of the next major Android 16 update. Among other things, the QPR2 beta has customizable app icons and more on board.

Android 16’s big redesign has finally arrived, with the QPR1 update now available to Google Pixel owners. Here’s how to install it. What’s new in Android 16 QPR1? Following a familiar initial release ...

Google's upcoming developer verification system for Android may prevent users from sideloading apps without an internet ...

While that makes sense from a security angle, it also chips away at Android’s long-standing reputation for openness compared to iOS. Still, sideloading isn’t going away entirely. As Android expert ...