I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

At the Build conference, Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a mini-PC built for local AI development, training jobs, and agentic pipelines. Powered by Nvidia’s new Spark ARM processor ...

Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns ...

The latest Swift 6.3 update introduces the first official Swift SDK for Android. This allows developers to build native Android apps or integrate Swift code into existing Kotlin/Java projects. The ...

Google’s new Android Bench ranks the top AI models for Android coding, with Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leading Claude Opus 4.6 ...

Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate ...

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After the posting—and apparent editing—of a job opening spotted this week, it’s expected that Amazon will bring its homegrown operating system to Fire TV devices this year. A new job listing, as seen ...

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. This application offers the following features: Opening all files without a corresponding Android application ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Amazon is close to releasing its Linux-based OS, codenamed Vega, on a versatile streaming device. The report comes from ...

Microsoft has revealed it’s created an engineering team that CEO Satya Nadella feels is needed to cope with a potential huge change to software development processes and applications unleashed by AI.

Apple's TV app could be available on Android smartphones and tablets in the future, according to a job listing spotted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple is seeking a senior Android software engineer ...