On Monday this week, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman removed the drivers for Android from the Linux kernel’s staging tree, thus insuring that–for now–Android is not headed for the mainstream Linux ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Samsung's attempt to prevent attacks on Galaxy phones by modifying kernel code ended up exposing it to more security bugs, according to Google Project Zero (GPZ). Not only are smartphone makers like ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used ...

The search giant is working to allow Rust code in the Linux kernel, a major technological and cultural shift after decades using only C. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

“手机能不能彻底取代电脑？”这是一个在科技圈被反复讨论了十多年的问题。 从早期的 Ubuntu Phone、微软的 Continuum，到三星 DeX、摩托罗拉 Ready For，再到 Android 原生桌面模式，几乎每隔几年，这个梦想就会被重新点燃一次。如今，这条路线迎来了一个更激进的 ...

There was a time -- not so long ago -- when Google's Android was decidedly not Linux. Google hackers modified the Linux kernel to build their dream mobile operating system, but the changes they made ...

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

If you want to use Android on your PC, you can. At least, that’s what a lot of Windows 10 users are told — and they can, as there’s tons of software available for emulating Android on a Windows 10 ...