Our Android customization series has, sometimes painstakingly, dedicated itself to non-root tools, tips and tricks to get the most out of your Android device. Today that changes. Last week we showed ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

The Google Nexus 7 is a pretty great tablet right out of the box. It has a speedy NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. But ...

Google puts a lot of time into thinking about Android security, and has developed systems like the way the OS handles app permissions in order to give us control over how software gets to see our data ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Yesterday, Dan Rosenberg published the first Motorola bootloader unlock method in history. It was an epic ...

Unlocking and Rooting. They're two words that we throw around all the time, and sometimes it seems like they're used as synonyms. They aren't the same thing, but it's not hard to see why there may be ...

The Nexus 7 tablet delivers Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at an affordable price and in an easy to root and unlock package. One of the best parts about owning an Android tablet is the ability to root the ...

Smartphone bootloader firmware should be secure even if the operating system is compromised. But researchers have found five flaws in major chipset vendors' code that leave the process vulnerable. The ...

Android offers a wide variety of advanced customization options, but that’s only scratching the surface of everything you can do with Google ’s open source operating system. With root access you can ...

Google’s Nexus 5 smartphone is the first to ship with Android 4.4 KitKat, and the stock software is pretty nice. But if you think you might want to install a custom ROM or custom recovery, it’s a good ...