In some parts of the world it’s common for cell service providers to sell new phones at a price significantly below market value, with the caveat that these phones are locked to that service provider ...

Running Linux on Android isn’t exactly a new idea. Over the years, we’ve seen countless projects attempting to turn Android smartphones into lightweight Linux machines. Most of them, however, end up ...

We all love getting new gadgets, but what to do with the old ones? Here are 25 clever ways to put your old Android phone or tablet to good use. Got extra smartphones sitting around your office? How ...

Most ARM64 devices running Android 8.0+ should work with the appropriate kernel modifications. Compiling the phone's kernel is also device specific, but some major tips may help you out. First, google ...

In a standard Linux environment, processes can spawn other processes, forming a hierarchy. Every process is ultimately created by another process. This means processes are not completely independent ...

A mobile phone can serve as a full terminal interface for a Raspberry Pi, using SSH or terminal apps. Enabling SSH on the Raspberry Pi and finding its IP address are essential first steps. Android ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...

When you build Android from AOSP, sometimes the process stops with errors like “soong bootstrap failed” or “ninja: job failed” after you sync the sources and start the build. This usually means the ...