I rely on many great Android apps to enhance my smartphone usage experience. Many features I use daily are already baked right into Android, but these apps help fill in the gaps that Google ignores.

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Open-source Android apps like Photo U, Clipboard, Zerch, Lean Type, and Block Ads boost privacy, kill clutter, and speed up ...

As announced alongside the Pixel 10 launch, Gemini Live is more widely rolling out native audio output for a “more responsive and expressive conversation” on Android. In August, Google teased “new ...

The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI ...

It’s been five years since the Apple TV app was launched, and we’re now getting a version for Android devices — built from the ground up for native Android integration — in the Google Play store that ...

Android is testing Native App Locks, a feature that lets users secure individual apps with a fingerprint or PIN. It helps protect private data, hide notifications, and makes sharing phones safer and ...

Office 2016 has largely unified the Exchange experience on the desktop, but native apps still do better overall on mobile clients Microsoft’s two-year-long effort to rework its Outlook applications ...