Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...

A slab with the pros and cons of a PC ...

The Odin 3 is one of the most powerful Android handhelds, but AYN just opened the door to making it a beefy Linux handheld.

This shouldn’t work—but it absolutely does.

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

When we talk about ChromeOS being re-baselined to the Android kernel—known internally as Project "Aluminium"—the conversation ...

It's an interesting move. We have one FireTV and the fact in runs Android means that support for nth-tier third party services is pretty good even without jailbreaking. A lot of things like: non-us ...

And emulation software allows you to run some x86 apps and games on Arm-based processors, as well as play some Windows games ...

I test Android phones for a living, but I write about them using a company-supplied MacBook Air. Both platforms are great in ...

Smartphones are basically tiny computers small enough to fit in your pocket. But most ship with Android, iOS, or other operating systems designed for devices with small touchscreen displays rather ...

Steam's maker, Valve, released a new version of Proton compatibility layer, allowing better PC game emulation on Linux and Android.