Participants in the Android Beta Program get first dibs on the next update, which is set to land in official form next year Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on ...

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 brings a simple yet nifty upgrade to the flashlight tile in Quick Settings: a brightness slider. The flashlight tile is no longer just a basic on/off switch. Instead, you can ...

Chandra Steele has been writing about tech for the entirety of her journalism career. She loves making tough topics easy to understand. Before joining Android Police, Chandra was senior features ...

Google has rolled out its December security update. The update patches 107 security vulnerabilities. Two of the security flaws may have already been exploited. Constantly keeping all your hardware and ...

SEATTLE, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual DB today announced a new partnership with SQLite, the embedded relational database engine used in billions of devices worldwide. Through this collaboration ...

Michelle Ehrhardt is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Earlham College, where she also double majored in theatre. She also holds an MFA in game design ...

The Android FHIR SDK is a set of Kotlin libraries for building offline-capable, mobile-first healthcare applications using the HL7® FHIR® standard on Android.

Whether you've just gotten Android 16 or you've had it in front of you for months, you're bound to find something new and useful in this collection of off-the-beaten-path pointers. Well, this is ...

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon teases his first look at Google’s merger between Android and ChromeOS. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon teases his first look at Google’s merger between Android and ChromeOS. is ...

In today’s data-driven world, databases form the backbone of modern applications—from mobile apps to enterprise systems. Understanding the different types of databases and their applications is ...

Google clarified that ChromeOS isn't merging with Android but will adopt Android's underlying technology. This aims for improved performance, faster updates, and enhanced AI features like Gemini, ...

Big Sleep, an AI agent Google introduced last year for searching out security vulnerabilities in both Google products and open-source projects, used information from Google Threat Intelligence to ...