The future of smartphone updates: Is five years the new normal?

Five years of smartphone updates is becoming the new baseline. Here’s why software support now matters more than specs or features.
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Android Auto 16.0 Now Available for Download As Big Features Are Coming

The first version in the 16.x branch is now live; this is just a beta, but the production build is expected in the coming days ...

How To Play PC Games On Your Android Device In 2026

Android gaming has come a long way -- long enough to enable you to play some of your PC games on Android devices. Here's how ...

Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in ...

Wearable Devices Brings the Touchless Magic to Android with Neural Gesture Control

Brings full Mudra Link feature set to Android mobile and XR devices,with demos at CES 2026Yokneam Illit, Israel, Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ...
InfoWorld

Swift SDK arrives for Android development

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...
Android Authority

Here's the Android 14 Easter egg and how you can see it yourself

What’s the Android 14 Easter egg? In the world of software development, an Easter egg is a hidden feature. Generally, because it’s hidden, it is not essential for using the software. Instead, it is a ...
MacRumors

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...
ZDNet

A Linux terminal app for native Android development? Here's why I'm bullish

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...
MacRumors

Apple's Swift Working to Support Android App Development

Apple's Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development through the establishment of a dedicated Android Working Group within the Swift open-source ...
MacTech

Apple’s Swift programming language is being extended to support Android app development

I didn’t see this coming, but Apple’s Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development. This is done via an establishment of a dedicated Android Working ...