XDA Developers on MSN

Your phone can run ADB on itself with no PC, and it's how I finally killed the bloatware I couldn't uninstall

Shizuku is a game-changer for tinkering lovers ...
MUO on MSN

I stopped waiting for Android Studio and built my first app in Google AI Studio instead

Building directly for Android beats creating web apps by a mile.

There's one group of Android users Google's new sideloading rules won't affect

LineageOS says Google's new developer verification system for sideloading apps on Android will not affect devices running its ...

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Google created a benchmark earlier this year to evaluate how LLMs perform in Android app development, and Android Bench is ...

Your free mobile VPN is a privacy disaster. Go figure

Researchers tested 281 free Android VPN apps and found unencrypted transmissions, traffic leaks and widespread tracking inside tools supposedly designed to protect users’ privacy.
Decrypt

Claude Fable 5 Isn't Nerfed. The Router Is Just Paranoid

Did Claude Fable 5 get dumber? Two benchmarks, two wildly different conclusions—and one routing layer that explains the whole ...
Android Police

This Android metadata removal utility allowed me to escape creepy internet tracking bugs

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...
Hackaday

Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device

Once upon a time, there was a bit of a fad for fingerprint authentication in laptops and desktop computers. It has long since ...