Now on its fourth edition, Google today published the 2017 Year in Review of Android Security. The in-depth report highlights last year’s launch of Play Protect, as well as platform level changes as a ...

Another 365 (and one-fourth) days have passed. Naysayers have again been proven wrong. Android is still going strong and the open source operating system is going places no other OS has or can. But it ...

As part of our Best of Android 2017 series, we’ve been putting this year’s best flagship smartphones through a set of rigorous tests to find out which truly deserves to be called the best. No thorough ...

Ransomware in 2017 saw users and businesses across the globe trying to cope with campaigns such as Petya and WannaCryptor. Not to be outdone, Android ransomware had a year full of innovative ...

Everyone’s got their own pick for Smartphone Brand of the Year. This year we saw smartphone manufacturers bring their best devices to market, but so many were so similar. How can we choose one that ...

We keep hearing about new, increasingly more dangerous strains of Android malware, but how safe from abuse and malware is Google's mobile operating system, really? If you ask Google, it's improved by ...

2017 saw a nice bunch of useful and inventive apps hit the Play store, and a number of our older favorites got some notable updates too. We’ve rounded up 30 of our favorites from our testing through ...

Fallen mobile phone giant Nokia is about to (attempt to) rise again next year with new phones -- this time based on Android. The plan has been known for a while, but it's now official, as the company ...

There are currently more than 2 billion monthly active Android device users - as the popularity of the operating system grows, hackers churn out new ways to steal personal or financial data, falsify ...

Google’s numerous safeguards designed to prevent malicious apps from reaching Android users led to the removal of over 700,000 apps from the Google Play Store in 2017, the company said today. That’s a ...

We are at the top three of the segment of our list of top 25 paid Android apps in 2017. This is one of the best media players for Android right now. It offers huge support for different media file ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. With Christmas only a day away, I thought it would be nice to compile the best games of the year in one of our gaming roundups so ...