A switch from an Apple iPhone to an Android one may sound scary, but a few essential steps can make the move easier to do. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) ...

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to browse the web on a sluggish, unresponsive phone. You're trying to read the morning news, and you can't do that without running into issues like sudden ...

Apple and Google are teaming up to make it easier to switch between Android and iPhone devices. The two companies say that they’ve developed new features that streamline the process of moving data ...

My journey with Android started off with Android 1.5, which was known as Cupcake (as Google previously named every Android version after desserts). Since then, I've seen Android maturing over the ...

Android 17 will introduce “Registered App Stores” as a result of the Epic settlement, allowing users to install rival marketplaces through a single, uniform screen. This eliminates security warnings ...

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Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...

What’s happened? Apple has quietly previewed a new tool called AppMigrationKit that could make switching phones a lot smoother. Spotted by 9to5Mac, it’s designed to help apps move your on-device data ...

Thanks to Android being open-source, there's a myriad of widgets available on the Google Play Store. Widgets are small tools or applications that can be added to your Home screen to perform certain ...