A hot potato: A year after announcing the most significant change to Android in a long time, Google is now introducing a new process aimed at making the mobile platform "open" again. Mountain View ...

Samsung has started developing One UI 9, its next major interface update based on Android 17, with early internal builds already appearing on company servers. The first firmware build (BZC5) for the ...

In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens innovation, competition, privacy, and user freedom. Google’s planned Android ...

TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest), the world's first full-stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering platform, today announced that developers and QA teams can now test Android 17 Beta on real devices through ...

Apple is now testing end-to-end encryption for RCS between iPhones and Android devices in iOS 26.4 Beta 2. This builds on last week’s rollout for iPhones only. The feature is still in beta and won’t ...

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway. Part of the RCS Universal Profile from the GSMA, messages between Android and iOS ...

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 ...

Google updated its Google System Services Release Notes page today and it introduces a new feature that adds some sort of local file backup via Google Drive. The specifics around how it works are ...

WhatsApp for Android Said to Be Testing Custom App Icons and Themes Tied to Premium Subscription The features are expected to be part of the rumoured WhatsApp premium subscription, which may be ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Android users frustrated by clunky workarounds when sharing files with iPhone owners are finally seeing progress. File ...