One of the best things about Android is its customization and flexibility. Android lets you use it the way you want to, whether that means changing the launcher, using icon packs, or more. But for ...

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 ...

There are multiple benefits to rooting an Android device. Foremost among the benefits is the ability to add custom ROMs on your smartphone or tablet, allowing you to add some more spice to your device ...

Referred to as "rooting" because it provides you access to the root directory of your Android's firmware, taking control of an Android once was time-consuming and available only to experts. Recently, ...

Gaining access to the lowest level (root level) of the Android operating system, which is prohibited on stock devices. Rooting gives the user administrator rights to alter the OS, tweak the hardware ...

The UG802 is a USB thumb drive-sized computer-on-a-stick. It has a Rockchip RK3066 dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of storage, HDMI and USB ports, and runs Android 4.0 software. You can pick one ...

If you’re anything like me, you always have to have the latest and greatest piece of technology. Unlike me, though, you may not be eager take that shiny new gadget and unlock, root, install a custom ...

Our smartphones and tablets today have become powerful computers, almost matching the cheapest "netbook" grade laptops. We feel they can almost do anything and everything. In theory, they can. In ...

BlueStacks is a utility that lets you run a number of Android apps on a Windows PC. You don’t need to reboot your PC or exit Windows at all — Windows apps and Android apps can run side-by-side. Out of ...

You might find that you want to control your Android phone right from your computer for one reason or another. Maybe you’d like to comfortably play your favorite mobile games on the big screen, or ...

Google has fixed a new batch of vulnerabilities in Android that could allow hackers to take over devices remotely or through malicious applications. The company released over-the-air firmware updates ...

Okay, this probably isn’t going to drastically change the lives of either casual users of Android or developers on the platform, but I still found it to be cool. There’s a new Chrome app on the block ...