Fortnite is currently the most popular game in the world. It has over 200 million players and is available on every major platform. The latest v7.10 update now adds support for more mid-range Android devices by adding support for the Snapdragon 670 and Snapdragon 710. Epic Games … | Continue reading
The default text messaging/SMS apps that are pre-loaded on phones are often not very good. You can find a much better alternative in this list of the best text messaging apps for Android. | Continue reading
Don’t spend too much time struggling to find the perfect gift for the holidays. Here at XDA, we put together our favorite deals in Phones, Home Tech, TVs and Accessories. These deals are sorted into categories and include some Black Friday exclusives. When companies put out their … | Continue reading
Linux on Samsung DeX lets you use Ubuntu 16.04 on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S4. But how good is it? | Continue reading
The Exynos 9820, Samsung's latest silicon which will power the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10, is now official with a dedicated NPU. | Continue reading
Android Studio is the best IDE for Android development, and it's going to be available natively on Chromebooks running Chrome OS early next year. | Continue reading
Thanks to leaked renders, we can now have a look at the detachable Google Pixel Slate, Google's Chrome OS tablet successor to the Google Pixelbook. | Continue reading
Xiaomi is offering a Mi 8/Mi 8 SE/Mi Mix 2S, a Mi Notebook Air/Pro, a Mi Band 3, and a Mi Bluetooth Headset in China for the same price of a new iPhone. | Continue reading
Looking to get Android Pie (Android 9) on your Android smartphone or tablet? We put together a list of unofficial custom ROMs for every device we found! | Continue reading
Google Chrome will have a feature which will automatically disable JavaScript on 2G connections, which will help users in developing countries. | Continue reading
The first Android Pie (Android 9) Project Treble Generic System Image (GSI) built from the Android Open Source Project is now available. | Continue reading
Many Android email applications and some apps like PayPal can be tricked to show a false recipient rather than the real intended addressee. | Continue reading
A new vulnerability leaves many Android email apps unguarded against a PayPal phishing attempt. It uses the Android app selector and fake email addresses. | Continue reading
We’re super excited to announce that Pocketnow is now a part of XDA. This means that we will join one of our favorite YouTube channels in mobile tech with the most popular Android phone community. The sites will continue to operate separately, but you might see key Pocketnow cont … | Continue reading
Firefox for Android has entered a maintenance phase as the team prepares to release an entirely new browser called Fenix. | Continue reading
Kiwi Browser, the open source Google Chrome-based browser, has brought back Chrome Home, the popular bottom address bar feature that was removed by Google. | Continue reading
WhatsApp has sent out cease and desist letters to some developers claiming they violate the service's ToS despite using native Android APIs. | Continue reading
US Senator Ron Wyden wrote an open letter to NIST to discourage use of older VPN tech like OpenVPN and IPsec, and use WireGuard instead. | Continue reading
A flaw in LTE dubbed aLTEr allows attackers to hijack your browsing session and spy on the websites that you visit, check it out here. | Continue reading
Developers of Android apps and games are reporting huge drops in new installs after Google quietly tweaks the Play Store's search and discovery algorithm. | Continue reading
The Google Pixel 3 and the Google Pixel 3 XL are on the horizon. A number of leaks have surfaced of CAD renders of both devices. | Continue reading
Google is working on getting the Google Pixelbook certified to run Microsoft Windows 10. This would be the first Chromebook with Windows. | Continue reading
Honor has just announced 2 new phones, the mid-range Honor 9i and the Honor Play with a feature called "GPU Turbo" to improve the mobile gaming experience. | Continue reading
A new commit hints at an integration between Chrome OS and Android Messages. However, it's unclear what this means exactly. | Continue reading
You can tinker with the Chrome OS system like you do on your Android device. It can be achieved by entering Developer Mode. To put it in other words, there is a way to 'root' your Chrome OS device. Here's how. | Continue reading
A Huawei engineer has announced that the company is developing a read-only file system alternative called EROFS, which promises improved performance without compression sacrifices. | Continue reading
Earlier this month, we wrote about Huawei and Honor users not being unable to access the page for generating bootloader unlock codes. Now, they will stop providing unlock codes completely. | Continue reading
A new documentation page and series of commits hints at on-device machine learning coming to Google's Chrome OS; its implementation seems similar to TensorFlow Lite for Android. | Continue reading
The launch of the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL brought with it a new feature called Now Playing and today we learned how it works from Google. | Continue reading
At the "what's new in Android security" talk during Google I/O 2018, Google's head of Android platform security revealed that they are updating their OEM agreements to include provisions for rolling out regular security patches. | Continue reading
reCAPTCHA serves an important purpose, but it can be very annoying. You can be asked to pick out pictures that meet a description or decipher a bunch of messy text. Google has made improvements over the years to make it less obtrusive. | Continue reading
Material Design is getting revamped with a new plugin for Sketch, dubbed Material Theming. It will allow developers to have better flexibility with their designs. | Continue reading
XDA Senior Recognized Developer Chainfire is halting development work on all root-related applications such as FlashFire, Live Boot, Recently, and more. | Continue reading