Android's Linux terminal can use GPU acceleration (gfxstream) to render graphical Linux apps. Current renderer uses Lavapipe (CPU), making GUI Linux apps slow, battery-heavy, and hot. Android 2509 ...

A new Android phone brings endless ways to personalize your experience. Apps like LocalSend, password managers like Bitwarden ...

You can now access most of your Android phone's files from the Linux Terminal app, starting in Android 16 QPR2.

Google has announced that ChromeOS and Android will become one unified operating system at some point in the future. That's ...

Smartphones are basically pocket-sized computers running mobile-friendly operating systems. And folks who want to run a free and open source GNU/Linux distribution on their phones get the advantages ...

With Microsoft killing the only official way of running everyday Android apps on PC, I found an alternative that doesn't use ...

One major benefit of using iOS is that it makes it incredibly easy to sync between your iPhone and your Mac desktops and laptops. On the other hand, Android isn't quite so embedded into other systems ...

Google recently added an experimental Linux terminal app to Android that installs Debian in a virtual machine and lets you run command-line apps. But if you’re running the latest canary builds of ...

Google’s Linux Terminal app is the core interface for running Linux environments on Android. It spins up a virtual machine ...

Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

Chrome OS was a novelty when it first arrived on the scene. Most pundits claimed it was nothing more than a browser, and it took Google plenty of time to prove them wrong. At this point, Chrome OS is ...