Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

Rewind almost 15 years, and the Android ROM scene was thriving. Nightly builds, tons of projects, we truly were ...

Google released the source code for Android 12 this week, but the company doesn’t plan to begin rolling it out for its own Pixel phones for at least a few more weeks, which means that if you want to ...

Custom ROMs have been a point of interest for smartphone enthusiasts for a long time now. Users install custom ROMs to revitalize their aging smartphones. Many Android manufacturers promise up to four ...

With the constant rush to trumpet the latest phones it's easy to think of old phones as obsolete. Most carriers encourage this with a spotty record on upgrading their existing phones to the latest and ...

One of the coolest things about Android is the ability to install custom ROMs on your device, replacing your default version of Android with a third-party take. These custom ROMs are traditionally ...

For years, I've ranked and judged Android phones on their specs. Faster chips, bigger batteries, higher megapixels, and ...

Nokia was once the pioneer of the mobile industry, but due to its inability to evolve as per the demand made it fail. Thanks to the HMD Global – a Finnish Company that owns Nokia, grabbed the nerve of ...

Google is not discontinuing the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it has made big changes that affect how Android source code is shared, especially for those who build custom ROMs of Android.

The third-party Android ROM landscape isn't what it used to be but it still exists and thrives even if in a smaller size. Extremely locked-down phones have made it harder to port and install these ...

There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been caught by ...

Users who have rooted their phone, have their bootloader unlocked or are using some custom ROMs report that their RCS messages are not being sent, even though RCS ...