Android Apps: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Policy changes forced by Epic Games’ lawsuit leave Google taking a smaller bite of mobile-app transactions than Apple.

New Play Store features aim to ease marketing and management burdens for app developers. But Google is focusing this vibe-coding venture only on a few app categories to start.

Examples include booking a better spot in a spin class. It's one of several 'Android Show' announcements that cover spam calls, enhanced video recording, Android Auto, and more.

The Google Play store has millions of apps. Some are great, many are duds. Our guide, which covers 13 key categories and 100 top apps, features the ones that deserve a place on your Android phone or tablet.

Privacy-minded users may appreciate a new location-permission control that app developers can embed, granting one-time access to the device’s precise location.

Similar features have been available on iMessage, Telegram, and WhatsApp for almost a decade.

The 24-hour wait is only a one-time process, and is part of an effort to stop Android malware and scams. But the upcoming restriction is already facing some backlash.

You can plug in your phone, download an emulator, or install the Google Play Store to access Android apps on your computer. Some tinkering may be required.

The tech giant chalked up its success in keeping the Play Store clean to initiatives like developer verification as well as new mandatory review checks and testing requirements.

Skype is out of the picture, but don't sweat. The best Android video chat apps can handle all your face-to-face messaging needs—and more.

Perplexity says it redesigned how Comet works for Android as it didn't want to 'just force a desktop experience onto mobile.'

Starting March 1, apps that cross Google's threshold for background activity will be subject to reduced visibility and a warning label on Google Play.

After an invite-only launch on iOS, OpenAI brings its TikTok-style AI video generator to Android.

Free Android app store F-Droid asks users to lobby government regulators to take action. Google says the move is needed to reduce the risk of malware infecting Android devices.

Get pro tools like curves, contrast, cropping, RAW support, and object removal for your Android device. They're easy to use and, best of all, affordable.

A year ago, Microsoft celebrated 10 million Outlook Lite downloads. Effective Oct. 6, however, Redmond says it's being retired 'so we can focus our investments' on the main Outlook app.

Cybersecurity researchers have found 20 malicious apps that snuck onto Google’s Play Store to try and drain people's funds from their wallets.

Have an important phone call coming up and want to record it? It's not easy, but with the right app (and some luck), you can save both incoming and outgoing calls on your Android phone.

If you’ve got an Android phone or tablet, you’ll want to make sure you update Instagram as soon as possible to help with your device's battery life.

The Google Play Store has been undergoing various clean ups, and the latest figures suggest a 47% drop in readily available apps to download.