For years there have been popular apps that claim to make Android phones faster, but actually just kill background processes en masse which does more harm than good. But with Android 14, Google is ...

One of the places where the fragmentation of Android can be felt the most is with how various OEMs tweak core parts of the OS. One of those places that was brought up in an AMA session with Android ...

Android apps can work in the background in sever ways, but sometimes too much choice can be a bad thing. Android has a range of APIs and components for scheduling background work, and the “correct” ...

From its earliest incarnations, Android has always supported background apps. Granted, they would wreck your battery in the early days and slow down your phone. Things have gotten better, but there's ...

In Android 9 Pie, the Recent Apps screen turned into a horizontally scrolling list of thumbnails with an expandable app drawer at the bottom. In the Android 11 Preview 3 release, the app drawer is ...

Broadly speaking, a runnable app (meaning one that has been loaded into memory and can be executed) can be in one of two states on an Android device: it is either a foreground app, which is currently ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

The latest Android 14 reports feature new information on the upcoming version of the system to power smartphones soon, and it will be to stop the process of "Speed Booster" apps on the platform. It ...