Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Woman moves from iOS to Android, new phone’s battery credited with saving life July 13, 2025 We’ll preface this article by saying we normally steer away from stories that originate fromThe Sun,as the publication is notorious for misleading headlines and even yellow journalism. However, when a story emerges about how anAndroid batteryallegedly saved a woman’s life, that’s something we just can’t ignore....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi teasing new products for March 31. Smartwatch incoming? August 02, 2025 Xiaomi is looking to continue its hot streak with a new product announcement scheduled for March 31. The fast growing Chinese company has recently been in the news for aninteresting collaboration with Microsoft, therelease of new products in India, andthe launch of a new Mi TV set. But Hugo Barra and company are not stopping anytime soon....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Zuckerberg plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger by 2020 August 22, 2025 According to anonymous sources speaking withThe New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to integrate the company’s various messaging platforms into one mega platform. The platforms would includeFacebook Messenger,Instagram, andWhatsApp, all properties owned byFacebook. In order for this to be possible, Zuckerberg has assigned developers from the three sites to reformulate the core code of each service so they can be unified....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AllCast Receiver for Chrome lets you stream media to any desktop Chrome browser July 08, 2025 ClockwordMod’s Koushik Dutta has taken streaming to the next level with AllCast. It has been associated to the popular Chromecast dongle because both became popular at around the same time, but there is much more to AllCast than just Cast support. This is the epitome of local streaming services....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 6.0 Marshmallow is official, Google posts up final preview June 15, 2025 Last Friday Google released avideo asking “what’s M going to be?”, while teasing us over Android M’s final candy-themed naming convention choices. The arrival of the video had us hoping that a big unveil might be sooner than we think. This morning things heated up further, as Google’s official G+ account put up a new teaser saying“Guess who’s excited for the arrival of Android M?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Q Beta 5 brings stability improvements and new gesture controls July 25, 2025 Update:If your Pixel phone is enrolled in the Android Beta Program, click that “system update” button — the Android Q Beta 5 OTA is rolling out now. Following last week’s release of theJuly security patch, Google has announced thefifth Android Q beta. As with previous builds, the updated firmware is rolling out now toPixel handsets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. App Update Roundup - Helium (Carbon), RunKeeper, and Viber for Android June 17, 2025 In today’s app update roundup, Carbon gets renamed to Helium, along with other updates to the app, RunKeeper makes it even easier to track your fitness activities, and Viber gets a face-lift and a desktop client! Let’s take a look. Helium (Carbon) If you use Carbon backup, you must have noticed that the app has now been renamed to Helium, because of apossible trademark infringement notice received by app creator Koushik Dutta, who you all may be familiar with as the creater of ClockworkMod....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Clash Royale League Fall Season kicks off with global rule changes July 24, 2025 The esports scene has exploded in recent years, with someestimatessaying it will be a $1.5 billion industry by 2020.Clash Royaledeveloper Supercell has decided to get a piece of themobile esportspie by launching the Clash Royale League, an official competitive league for their most popular mobile game....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dead Island: SurVivors - 10 Tips & Tricks to keep beach-going zombies at bay! July 16, 2025 Dead Island: SurVivorsis the latest zombie game to shuffle its way into the Android catalog. It might not have much to do with the original Dead Island, but new tower defense elements make the game harder and more complex. To help out zombie-bashing newbies, we’ve compiled this list of tips and tricks for Dead Island: SurVivors....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Everything you need to know about Microsoft Azure August 07, 2025 Azureis a cloud platform (infrastructure as a service) from Microsoft. Like other cloud platforms such as AWS from Amazon, and Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure provides a wide range of powerful tools for businesses and developers to integrate into their own services and products. These are tools that rely on the cloud: they run on remote servers and leverage the power and security they can provide....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Exclusive Weather Channel app launched for Samsung Galaxy handsets June 25, 2025 After a period of silence from its relatively new ‘Made for Samsung’ program, some may have been wondering whatever happened to the company’s exclusive software initiative. However,Samsungand The Weather Channel have teamed up to release a new weather app specifically for some Galaxy handsets today. ‘The Weather Channel for Samsung’ app is now live in the Galaxy Apps store, you can find it by searching for “Weather Channel”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google thinks more phones will get Pie in 2018 than Oreo in 2017 June 15, 2025 Google has published a new post on itsAndroid Developers blogdiscussing the current state ofProject Treble. In the post, the company said it expects more handsets to be runningAndroid Piebefore the end of this year than ran Android Oreo before the end of last year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Guess which company has been leading mobile gaming for 25 years? August 23, 2025 Promoted by Arm Mention mobile gaming and most people will think of games like Angry Birds or Candy Crush running on your Android smartphone, but handheld gaming is much older than that. The gaming market will be worth around $124 billion this year and about 35 percent of that is for mobile gaming....