Android Studio offers a rich palette of built-in development tools, and an even more abundant plugin ecosystem. The first three articles in this series focused on installation and setup and coding and ...

Ever noticed the USB Debugging option on your phone? It's an incredibly powerful feature, but it also leaves your phone vulnerable. Here's how to turn it off.

If you’re an Evil Customs Agent or other nefarious Three Letter Agency Person, you’re probably very interesting in getting data off people’s phones. Even if the screen is locked, there’s a way around ...

William J. Francis recently learned you can run the Android Debug Bridge over TCP. Learn how easy it is to do. As an Android developer, I’m spoiled. I depend on my IDE, logcat, and most of all, the ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Facebook Inc. has become more than just a social media company over the last few years as the company started developing new technologies to solve its own unique challenges. Some of these innovations ...

Apparently Android keeps some of its best toys outside the front gate.

UndoDB, a C/C++ Linux reversible debugger tool suite, will be integrated into ARM’s DS-5 Development Studio (version 5.16). Undo Software’s UndoDB can record everything performed by any Linux program, ...

A utility that lets users customize their Android devices without requiring root access (see Android rooting). For example, depending on the Android OS version ...