Open the Recent Apps menu. Locate the app you want to close. Swipe the app card upward or to the side (varies by device). The ...

From its earliest incarnations, Android has always supported background apps. Granted, they would wreck your battery in the early days and slow down your phone. Things have gotten better, but there's ...

Android users are used to blaming games, social media, or aging batteries when their phones die before dinner. Yet one of the ...

Android’s open nature leads to some disparity with how apps and features can work across devices from different smartphone makers. Over the last couple of years, background app performance has been a ...

Brave is a mobile web browser for Android with a built-in ad blocker. And up until recently, that’s been the browser’s primary claim to fame, other than the fact that it comes from Mozilla cofounder ...

When you start out building Android applications, one of the first things you'll generally familiarize yourself with is the activity lifecycle. Often this familiarity is triggered by wondering why ...