Starting with Android Oreo (version 8), the operating system switched to a faster decompression algorithm (LZ4), which ...

When your Android's system files stop communicating correctly, the device may end up having difficulty starting. Boot loops are the result of system files not knowing how to function during the ...

Starting in Android 4.4, Google implemented verified boot (known as dm-verity) in the Android kernel to prevent malware from hiding in your device. This was all behind the scenes until Android 6.0 ...

One of the more exciting – and yet not so much talked about – features of Android 7.0 Nougat is seamless updating. This concept was originally taken from Google’s own Chrome OS. It’s a way of ...

Q: My Android phone started crashing, and now it can’t even finish booting up. Is there any rescuing this thing? A: Once a mobile device gets stuck in a “bootloop,” in which Android can’t even get ...

Earlier this week, Viewsonic announced their first tablet computer to run Google’s Android OS, the Viewsonic ViewPad 7. Now it seems that Viewsonic has launched another tablet that will run Android, ...