Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used ...

It seems like Google is working hard to update and upstream the Linux kernel that sits at the heart of every Android phone. The company was a big participant in this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference, ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report ...

Samsung is bringing an under-the-hood upgrade with One UI 8.5 which could make your existing phone much more fluid and responsive.

Customizability has always been a key component of Android, with third-party developers being able to modify and create their own tweaked builds of the software. When companies release the kernel ...

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A security audit of the Android kernel has turned up 88 "high-risk defects" with with significant potential to cause security vulnerabilities, data loss, or quality problems such as system crashes.

Version 3.3 of the Linux kernel, now available after a short delay, includes kernel code from Android as well as an upgrade of networking features and support for an additional processing architecture ...

The Android's kernel controls many aspects of the operating system, so when you replace the operating system you replace the code that keeps Android running. Android custom kernels, also called ROMs, ...

This is the story of a cloud and its silver lining. First, the cloud: Numerous programming flaws in the Android kernel include 88 high-risk defects that could leave users’ sensitive information ...