Tag: Android app

August 14, 2023

Firefox’s Android app will soon support an “open ecosystem of extensions,” developer Mozilla has announced, allowing users to customize the browser with a wide range of third-party addons. An exact release date for the feature is yet to be announced, […]

March 22, 2022

Malicious actors have created an Android app which carried with it a password stealer, and possibly – an identity and biometrics stealer, as “added value”. Discovered by researchers at security firm Praedo, the “Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools” promised to “cartoonify” […]

March 3, 2022

Google’s testing a darker dark mode for its Android search app (via Android Police), according to 9to5Google. This new shade still isn’t the same as the one presented in Google’s test of a pitch-black dark mode on desktops last month. […]

February 15, 2022

New Windows 11 updates are rolling out now with improvements to the Notepad and Media Player apps as well as introducing limited Android app support through the Microsoft Store. For the Android apps, the Microsoft Store will soon be integrating […]

October 20, 2021

From today, beta channel Windows Insiders can preview the Android app experience on eligible devices. Insiders will find a limited selection of Android applications in the Microsoft Store that should look and feel like ordinary Windows 11 apps. Users will […]

May 10, 2021

Facebook Messenger first launched on August 9th, 2011 with standalone apps available for the Apple App Store and what was then called the Android Market. Today, Android Police noted that the messaging app has passed a milestone that only two […]

February 16, 2021

Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a user’s sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code execution. The findings come from […]

August 6, 2020

In its latest Android Studio 4.2, currently in Canary, Google has made significant improvements to the Android App Bundle format by introducing Play Asset Delivery (PAD) and dynamic modules resource shrinking. Play Asset Delivery aims to bring Android App Bundle […]

May 7, 2020

Discover is Facebook’s new Android app that lets users browse any website using a daily balance of free data offered by carriers. Discover is only available in select countries and at launch there only four participating mobile operators that will […]

April 16, 2020

Google has announced a series of new policies to make Android’s in-app subscriptions more transparent to users. Starting on June 16th, apps will have to be clear about the terms of their paid subscriptions, and free trials and will need […]

April 8, 2019

Snap has finally released its new, rebuilt Snapchat Android app, which the company has been rewriting from the ground up since the beginning of 2018 to bring performance for the Android version up to par with the iOS app. While […]