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Google is making Android sideloading easier with a new advanced setting that lets users disable app verification after a ...

Later this year, Google is introducing new developer verification. For power users, Android will offer an option to disable ...

Samsung’s new Sokatoa tool gives Android developers deeper GPU insights, helping them track down performance issues faster.

Google has revealed the “advanced flow” that will be required to install certain Android apps once the company introduces mandatory developer verification later this year. The ...

Enabling sideloading of apps from unverified devs will soon require a 24-hour waiting period, but there's a way to skip it.

Google has detailed how users will be able to sideload apps from unverified developers once it implements its more restrictive policy towards downloading software on Android. The company originally ...

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Google and Samsung teamed up with LunarG to build Sokatoa, a GPU profiler that helps Android developers spot rendering issues faster with multi-frame analysis. The post Google and Samsung built a tool ...

Take a peek in Android’s settings menu, and no matter what smartphone you have, you’ll probably find Google’s Digital Wellbeing suite hanging around. At first glance, Digital Wellbeing is perfectly ...

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Maintaining platform integrity has become increasingly critical, with a global footprint of over 3 billion active devices, Samat said.