Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Play Store now lets you know if an app has ads before you download June 05, 2025 So back in 2015,Googlestarted emailing devs toencourage them to log in to the developer consoleand flag whether or not their apps contained ads. They were told that sometime early this year, the Play Store would start displaying a notification signifying if an app was garnished with ads....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s appeal of ten-years-long Oracle court case will go to Supreme Court August 03, 2025 Today, theUnited States Supreme Court announcedthat it will hear the dispute betweenGoogle and Oracle, a fight that has been going on since at least 2010 (viaCNBC). The Google-Oracle fight could have incredible ramifications for Android and copyright law in general, depending on how the Supreme Court rules on the case....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here are the videos you don’t want to miss this week – June 29, 2025 June 02, 2025 If you consider yourself an Android fan, this was probably one of the most exciting weeks of the year for you. Google finally unveiled the heavily-rumoredNexus 6PandNexus 5Xsmartphones, and we even got a first hand look at the new Pixel C tablet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC One M10 could launch as just the HTC10 August 11, 2025 HTChas gradually been building up the hype for itsnext flagship smartphone, with afew teasers hereandthere, and a launch anticipated for some time in early April. In a bid to change things up a little, it also looks like HTCis preparing to drop the “One M” name from its new phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. IoT security: What you need to know August 02, 2025 You have probably heard the term “the Internet of Things” (IoT) being bandied about. According to some, it is the next big revolution after mobile. For others, it is more hype than reality. The truth is somewhere in between. However, one thing is sure: the number of computing devices connected to the internet is growing, and growing fast....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is your Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL suffering random reboots? Google is working on a fix (Updated) August 14, 2025 Update (11/28) at 16:53:Orrin, a community manager in the Google Product Forums, chimed in withan official response. Original article (11/28) at 05:34:Oh dear. Just when it seemed that the endless stream ofPixel 2 and Pixel 2 XLissues had come to an end,yet another headachehas emerged for Google....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It took me 20+ tries to set up a Google Home Mini, after Sonos' lawsuit June 14, 2025 The technology world was shaken late last week by a ruling of the US International Trade Commissionsaying that Google had infringed on Sonos’ patents. After a couple of years of legal back-and-forth, this was a difficult blow to Google. A US import ban on many products is looming on the horizon, and a few crucial Nest and Chromecast features were deemed illegally used....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Latest leak suggests the Galaxy S6 will be just 6.91mm thin July 28, 2025 These days it seems like every hour is met with another rumor, purported leak, or claim about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6, or the still-don’t-know-if-it-exists Galaxy S Edge. If one were to be pinching all the salt sprinkled, they would have chronic hypertension already. All we actuallydoknow is that Samsung will unveil the S6 on March 1st, Samsung has sent an MWC invitation with aclearly curved creation, and that Samsung has in fact,patented a dual Edgedisplay....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft’s version of IFTTT, called Flow, arrives on Android June 29, 2025 Fans of automation will already be intimately familiar withIFTTT. The idea is simple: create basic recipes for actions based on particular triggers. Microsoft Flow does much the same thing, although it has a natural predisposition toward Microsoft products. An open Android beta is now available, so you can install and try out Microsoft Flow for yourself....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Missing Cyanogen? The OnePlus 2 is getting CyanogenMod June 05, 2025 TheOnePlus Onewas a very special phone. Not only was it super affordable and had very powerful specs, but it also came with very unique software. Cyanogen was at the very heart of theOnePlusexperience, something that attracted many fans of the developers who created the most popular third-party ROM –CyanogenMod....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Mod adds always-on display to OnePlus phones, but you may not want to use it June 28, 2025 If there’s one feature OnePlus users consistently ask for inOxygen OS, it’s an always-on display (AOD). Now, that dream has become real with the release of a new mod that enables the feature, but there’s one big downside. First posted byXDA Developers, the mod, which is called OPAodMod, requires a rooted OnePlus phone in order to work....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. NVIDIA thinks it can solve video-calling’s greatest challenges June 06, 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic means thatvideo-callinghas become more important than ever, as companies hold virtual meetings, schools hold online classes, and families connect over the internet in lieu of physical visits. This widespread shift to video calling has laid bare a few major challenges for the tech, and NVIDIA has nowannounceda solution in the form of its Maxine developer platform (h/t:The Verge)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Quick, Draw pitches your awful drawing skills against Google’s AI July 20, 2025 Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is becoming the next big thing in technology. Google has been making great progress in this field and has recently shown off itshighly accurate AI image captioning system. But the company has more to give. Meet Google’s latest AI experiment called “Quick, Draw....