With Android 7.1, Google has added a so-called "panic button" behavior in its mobile operating system, so users can immediately shut down any app they suspect of being infected with malware. The ...

The previous version of the Android P developer’s preview was missing the “Clear all” button in the task viewer. Luckily, the button is back in the newest update, Android P developer’s preview 3. Dave ...

Hopefully, you're pretty careful about which apps you install on your Android device. Even though it's quite rare for malware to make its way into the Google Play Store, it does happen. You may never ...

Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

Google is working to bring predictive back support to three-button navigation in Android 16. Predictive back lets you preview where the back button will take you. Currently, this feature only works ...

A new ransomware targeting Android devices has been spotted in the wild. Codenamed DoubleLocker, the ransomware abuses Android's Accessibility service and reactivates itself every time the user ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

Google’s “Java guru” took the stand in the infringement trial between Google and Oracle, where he admitted that he was “perfectly willing to believe” he may have accessed copyright Sun code when ...