Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) backup and restore commands may be removed in a future Android release, as detailed in a commit merged into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) git repository. adb is ...

One of the first things I do when I set up a new PC is install the Android platform tools so that I can use ADB, Fastboot and other platform tools from anywhere ...

In the older days of Android, developers had to use the open-source Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) to create apps for the platform. Google released its own IDE called Android Studio ...

Last week Google announced that Lollipop will come to most Nexus devices in the coming weeks. If you like to get the latest from Google, you know that “coming weeks” could be a pretty long wait. Cut ...