by dbadmin | Oct 5, 2025 | Android, Features, smartphones
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority The Android landscape has made major strides since the first Android phones over 15 years ago. The early versions of Android didn’t even have features like multi-touch input, copy-and-paste, or auto-rotate! Many nuggets of...
by dbadmin | Oct 1, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Software lists
Keeping up with the latest and greatest apps and games is a difficult task, but I’m here to help. Each month, I detail a list of the best new Android apps and games, and the October 2025 edition is packed with plenty of new open source apps. But let’s not waste any...
by dbadmin | Oct 1, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Features, Google Play Music, Root, Swype
Credit: Tushar Mehta / Android Authority The Android we know today has a rich legacy, built on a foundation of apps that have endowed it with its powers of customization and extended its utility beyond what was natively offered. Over the last decade, many of these...
by dbadmin | Oct 1, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Google, News
Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has published a new blog post insisting that sideloading on Android isn’t going anywhere. The company reiterated that its new developer verification requirements are meant to improve safety, not to limit user...
by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Features
Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority I was showing my dad a couple of Android features on his phone recently, and not for the first time. You might have had this revelation already, but I realized there’s so much we do unthinkingly on our devices that might still...
by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Android, Best products, Google, Motorola, Samsung, Small Phones
A few years ago, small phones seemed to be going the way of the headphone jack, the removable battery, and the dodo. They were disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for 6.5-inch displays to become the floor rather than the ceiling. It felt like before long, the...