Google has confirmed that Android will not retire app sideloading, but the company is implementing measures that make the ...

Google has announced a new mechanism in Android called Advanced Flow that will allow sideloading APKs from unverified developers for power users in a more secure way.

Google says sideloading isn't going away, but a new multi-step "advanced flow" will make installing unverified apps slower and more secure.

Google's latest Android Canary 2603 build brings separate Wi-Fi toggles, a native App Lock, and improved multitasking to ...

While Google is restricting app downloads from sources other than the Google Play Store, the company will allow sideloading ...

Share your current or live location from your Android phone in seconds, using the apps you already have installed.

Even if connecting your Android phone to your car's dashboard via Android Auto is a daily ritual for you, you may not have explored much beyond the default settings for the interface. You probably ...

I used to install a dozen little apps for basic tasks. This Android toolkit replaced almost all of them.

Here in the land of Android, we’ve got an almost comical kind of first-world problem: So many new features fly our way so frickin’ often that it’s all too easy to overlook something interesting — or ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

In the name of convenience, many apps these days are designed to be cross-platform. They can run on both mobile and desktop, so you can readily switch between devices without starting from scratch. It ...