Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The newest Moto Mod puts a printer on the back of your phone July 31, 2025 If you’re looking to take your photo game to the next level, the newestMoto Modmight be right up your alley.MotorolaandPolaroidare teaming up to introduce the Polaroid Insta-Share Printer. The Moto Mod will allow you to take a picture and immediately print it right from your phone....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Upcoming Android game lets you kill Super Mario once and for all August 12, 2025 A quick look at Google Play will turn up a number of games that at least somewhat resemble the mechanics, features, and graphical style of classic titles like Super Mario Brothers, with one example being the once-big-hitFlappy Bird.Most of these games have had enough differences in their design as to allow them to pass through both Google Play and the App Store unnoticed and unchallenged, but a new reverse platformer calledKill the Plumberran into a bit of trouble....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Using the ThingSpeak API to track a device’s location July 07, 2025 We have previously demonstratedhow to use a web API from your Android app, and we have also discussedhow to get and use location data in your Android app. In this tutorial, we will utilize both of these lessons, and show how you can track a device’s location using a remote web API....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon will start locking phones to deter theft August 21, 2025 If you’ve been enjoying Big Red’s lax policy on locked phones, we’ve got some bad news for you:starting in Spring 2018, Verizon will temporarily lock the phones it sells, just like its rivalsAT&T,Sprint, andT-Mobile. Smartphone theft is a major issue, and to thieves, unlocked phones are worth their weight in gold; locked phones are much harder to sell....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What is Google Pigweed? Google’s unveils new toys for IoT developers August 06, 2025 One might be forgiven for thinking that Google had enough operating systems. Other than Android, Google also ownsChrome OSandGoogle Fuchsia– the latter of which isn’t even finished yet! But then came murmurs of a project called Pigweed,following a Google trademark that surfaced in February this year....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why a Nokia smartphone would be a bad idea August 17, 2025 When you think of smartphones, there are a few names that come to mind as major players in the game: Apple, Samsung, Motorola, LG and HTC, just to name a few. One name that doesn’t come to mind? Nokia. Though once one of the greatest kings of mobile, Nokia silently left the industry it once helped champion after selling its smartphone business to Microsoft....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Acer’s new Chromebook Spin 514 is powered by AMD mobile CPUs and GPUs July 31, 2025 Acer Chromebook Spin 514 has wonAndroid Authority‘s CES 2021 Top Picks Award for Best Affordable Laptop.Check out all the awards here. Acer has another entry in its popular lineup of Chromebooks, this time from its Spin brand. The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is the first such Chromebook from the company that will use both mobile processors and graphics chips fromAMD....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alexa voice commands will soon launch Android and iOS apps July 11, 2025 Amazon’s Alexaapp will soon be useful for starting tasks in other mobile apps. The company hasunveiled(viaThe Verge) an Alexa for Apps preview toolkit that usescustom skillsto launch Android and iOS apps. So long as an app supports deep links, you just have to use your voice to complete a search, find more information or access virtually any other feature....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alien: Blackout will make you scream on Android (Update: Out now!) August 15, 2025 Update, Jun 17, 2025 (9:00AM ET):Alien: Blackout is now available to download on the Google Play Store (and Apple or Amazon’s app stores) priced at $4.99. Developed by Rival Games and Theory Interactive, Alien: Blackout is a survival horror game for mobile devices and a sort-of follow-up to Alien: Isolation which launched back in 2014 for consoles and PC and starred Blackout’s hero, Amanda Ripley — the daughter of the Alien movie franchise’s xeno-butt-kicking icon, Ellen Ripley....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android 2016: Camera June 14, 2025 What is Best of Android? In Best of Android, we aim to answer the single most important question that we get asked every day: what’s the best Android phone you can buy right now? Looking at 2016, here are the 10 phones we feel make up the best currently available on the market from each of these manufacturers...
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Do AI cameras matter? LG V40 vs HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro vs Google Pixel 3 edition August 02, 2025 AI camera features are packed into so many smartphones these days, promising to make our pictures look better by understanding the scene we’re trying to capture. However, the improvements on offer are seldom properly explained, making it hard to know exactly how AI helps make our pictures better — if at all....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook Messenger gets multiple account support August 02, 2025 Facebook is really getting into the spirit of multiple personas lately. Earlier this month, the social sultan rolled out multiple account support for its photo-centric social media platformInstagram, and we caught a glimpse of somepotential changesin the pipeworks for Messenger, including the ability to swap accounts in-app. Now that change has been made formal, so it will be easy to stay in touch with your amigos no matter who you feel like being today....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google is hosting an online event next week, but it’s not for the Pixel 4a July 29, 2025 Google might begetting readyto launch thePixel 4a,but before it does that, the company is hosting a virtual “Hey Google”smart homeevent July 8. Google hasn’t revealed much about the upcoming developer event, but we expect to hear a lot about Google Assistant and the smart home devices it powers....
