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The apps, some of which are available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, give Google a way to test out more experimental features to see how users respond, the company explains in an announcement on its Google Research blog.
A collection of vulnerabilities known as ParseDroid put users of popular Android development tools at risk.
At its third annual Google for India event in New Delhi today, the company noted that its Tez payments app is set to cross 12 million active users in the country soon – and that it’s getting some hot new features to make bill payment a breeze.
Microsoft unveiled a beta version of its Edge web browser last month for iOS and Android. Testers had to sign-up to get special access to the new browser, but Microsoft is making both the Android and iOS versions generally available today.
Google missed that window when it rolled out the November set of security patches without a fix for the KRACK vulnerability. Fortunately, that whole scare seems to have blown over on its own before Google could finally get the fix out the door today.
Google’s stripped-down version of Android is ready for OEMs.
Android Oreo 8.1 is nearly here and it has added support for Google’s Pixel Visual Core chip inside this year’s Pixels.
Project Treble is most commonly described as an attempt by Google to modularize the Android OS framework to separate vendor specific code.
Many people were wondering if this feature would make its way over to the OnePlus 5, but in a recent AMA over on the OnePlus forums the company stated that it won’t. However, another leaked build of Android Oreo for the OnePlus 5 was posted today and it reveals that OnePlus may be bringing the Face Unlock feature to its previous flagship.
Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected to the internet, a Quartz investigation has revealed.
