Google rolls out Android's new advanced sideloading flow with a 24-hour delay and restart requirement, expanding globally in ...

Android 17's most paranoid setting is fine, right up until it isn't ...

The new advanced flow for sideloading adds a 24-hour delay and extra warnings for apps from unverified developers.

Google has detailed its upcoming “Advanced Flow” system for Android sideloading, designed to improve security without fully restricting the practice. The new process adds extra steps—like enabling ...

With Android 16, users can enable Advanced Protection to “activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices.” The Chrome for Android team has now detailed how Advanced Protection works. There ...

This is not a sideloading ban. Google is preserving the ability to install apps from outside the Play Store, but wrapping that ability in identity checks, warning screens, and a waiting period. The ...

Your Android phone has some surprisingly smart systems for helping you remember things, but it's up to <em>you</em> to remember to use 'em. Ah, reminders. I’m not ...

Google is working on an Intrusion Detection system for Android, according to a teardown of the Play Services app. The system will collect a log of your device/network activities that can be accessed ...