Android smartphones and tablets have hundreds of settings that let you change everything from wallpapers and notifications to sound, system colors, and more. But if you think you've seen and tweaked ...

You can also disable the Android Auto Developer options from the same three-dot menu by selecting the Close developer mode ...

Android’s hidden Developer Options can supercharge your phone with features like faster animations, improved Bluetooth audio, file transfer defaults, fake GPS location, background app limits, and ...

A large number of settings that developers might want to change in an Android smartphone. For example, several logging features can be activated. Regular users have no need to enable these settings, ...

As an Android Auto newcomer, here are the five settings I tweaked right away for a smoother in-car infotainment experience.

You can disable Android's Bluetooth absolute volume feature, which makes the phone's and a Bluetooth device's volume work ...

Android Auto is now available in over 200 million cars globally. The interface provides easy access to navigation, messaging, calling, and music by mirroring functions from a connected high-end or ...

The second Android 15 developer preview comes to us a little over a month after its initial release in February. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about ...

Well ahead of its usual schedule, Google has just released the first preview of Android 16. This initial developer preview isn’t meant for the general user, but it’s freely available to anyone who ...

An Android SDK update raises questions about the impact of developer verification on users' ability to sideload apps when offline.

What is the Android 16 Developer Preview? Google tests its major Android releases in stages. We're currently in the developer preview phase of Android 16's testing, which means that builds available ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...