Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Following our report at the start of this month, Google Photos for Android is rolling out its new gradient redesign of the homescreen icon. After having the new design on my homescreen for a few days, ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

A simple Weather App built using Kotlin and Android Studio. Displays city-specific weather details like temperature, humidity, and conditions with a dynamic background that changes based on the ...

Abstract: Adversarial attacks pose significant threats to Android malware detection by undermining the effectiveness of machine learning-based systems. The rapid increase in Android apps complicates ...

One of the main benefits of a YouTube Premium subscription is being able to play videos in the background, but at $14 per month, it becomes difficult to justify the cost, especially if you're not ...

Microsoft is testing a new feature in its Edge Canary browser for Android that directly challenges one of YouTube’s key revenue drivers. An experimental flag allows users to play videos in the ...

Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Edge browser for Android that lets you play videos in the background. The feature can be enabled through the Edge flags page. It works on YouTube, so you can ...

Abstract: Infrared imaging exploits the thermal radiation characteristics of objects to transform infrared radiation into images. The scattering of thermal radiation degrades the resolution of ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In ...