Research indicates Android phones are also storing location information, but less than on iPhone. Yet personal data is being transmitted to both Apple and Google.

We dig into the different options available to store data locally on an android device, complete with sample source code.

Setting up a new phone can be tedious if you have a lot of apps and data. Here's how to quickly transfer data to a new Android phone.

To quickly free up storage on your Android phone, consider removing apps and any associated data. Uninstalling apps makes the most sense for programs you don't use all that often.

An Android app has two choices for where to put its data on a device: internal storage, where it’s safe and snug, isolated by the operating system’s sandbox, and external storage, where data ...

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Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone Google's "solution" can't do anything for bootlooping devices.

External storage is formed through either a partition or via an SD card and is shared by all applications. Man-in-the-Disk attacks are focused on the external storage aspect of Android mobile devices.