SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Video game maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement” with Google that could end its 5-year-old legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps. Epic ...

Starting next year, Android will block the installation of apps from unverified developers, a policy that affects both Play Store and sideloaded apps. The new system requires Android to check if a ...

Next year, Google will prohibit sideloading on Android—one of the few prominent things differentiating the Android operating system from Apple's iOS. Per the forthcoming policy, Google will ask all ...

Self-hosting services save you from subscription costs and give you control over your data. While I’ve previously experimented with self-hosted media servers and file storage, I only really dove into ...

After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon’s store will be able to access it for now, ...

Five years after Apple TV+ launched, Apple is finally bringing the complete Apple TV app experience to Android users. Starting today, they can watch all Apple TV+ content as well as MLB and MLS games ...

Forward-looking: The next version of Android will introduce unprecedented restrictions for app developers. All apps targeting Android 16 must be adaptive, meaning custom UI choices that don't scale ...

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The smart home company has finally launched its Android app, but so far, it only works with Google Home and only supports one device. The smart home company has finally launched its Android app, but ...

Picture-in-picture support has been around on Android phones since all the way back in 2017 with the launch of Android 8 (also known as Android Oreo). It means you can keep a video playing while you ...