Background App Refresh was introduced in 2013 with iOS 7, about five years after the very first iPhone. When active, Background App Refresh allows a specific app to ...

A major cause of battery drain on Android can be the apps that are installed on your device. To get your phone's battery life back on track, turn on Adaptive battery ...

Is your Android phone starting to feel painfully slow? Before you get frustrated enough to drop hundreds of dollars on a new one, let's be real: you probably just need to clean up your digital mess.

A few months ago, I was working from a busy coffee shop in Berlin when my Pixel 8 flashed a warning about an unsecured Wi-Fi network. I’d been answering emails, checking bank balances, and streaming ...

We've all been there. You're browsing Google Play to download new Android apps or taking photos and videos while out and about, and you see a pop-up on your phone ...

It's a replacement for the deprecated pull to refresh solution. It can contain any view you want. It's easy to use and more powerful than SwipeRefreshLayout. It's well designed, you can customize the ...

You might close apps to speed up your phone, but Android already limits idle apps to save battery, so you don't need to micromanage them. Apps like Gmail still run background services to deliver ...

Suppose someone came to talk to you and said, “I need your help. I have a Raspberry Pi-based robot and I want to develop a custom Android app to control it.” If you are like me, you’ll think about ...

The wait for Android’s next big platform update is finally over. Google has released the stable build of Android 16 for the masses, and it is now available to download publicly on all devices, ...