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Back in the day one of the main reasons people would root their phone was to take advantage of custom themes. These days you can theme your device with launchers and app themes. Some OEMs took advantage of the craze and built in themes to their software. Android will also have full themeing...

Yesterday at a press event directly following the solar eclipse in the US Google officially announced the new name of Android 8.0 Oreo! The late dark horse was orolette, which would have been pretty lame since no one has actually ever heard of that. Google decided to team up with a very well...

There is one word that has been synonymous with Android for the past several years and that word my friends is fragmentation. Apple fan boys love to utter the word. While Apple has to work to get a handful of devices running the latest version of iOS there happen to be thousands of Android...

This month is slated to be a pretty big month for Android. We are looking forward to the release of both the LG V30 the Galaxy Note 8 as well as the Nokia 8. It looks like Google will be adding to the fun with the release of Android 8.0 O for the original Pixel and Pixel XL. According to...

Android O has been out for a while now in Beta form. It would be easy to think a device like the Note 8 which launches later this year would have this latest and greatest software on board, but that may not be the case. The phone was recently spotted in the HTML5Test database running Android...

OnePlus has announced that their latest phones the OnePlus and OnePlus 3T will be receiving the Android O update. This should be a given as both devices are less than a year old. The OnePlus 3 was launched in June of last year while the slightly updated OnePlus 3T was released shortly after that...

The Android O beta build has been available for Pixel devices for quite some time now. Many new features were even announced at Google I/O. At this point if you want to run Android O you need a Pixel device or other Google device. However you can now use the Pixel Android O Launcher on any...

Android O will be bringing some performance enhancements to Android. One major improvement which may not be all that important to most is the fact that Android O will cut reboot times in half. If you make many mods to your phone then you reboot your phone often. This will save you plenty of...

An all new feature is coming to Android O called Google Lens. The new tech was announced yesterday at Google's annual developer conference Google I/O. Google lens allows your camera to do some pretty awesome things. When you point your camera at things it will tell you exactly what it is. If you...

It looks like Google is already starting to test the Pixel 2. It has shown up as "Taimen" in the Geekbench app. This is rumored to be the larger "XL" version of the Pixel 2. According to Geekbench the new device will feature a Snapdragon 835 clocked at 1.9GHz, 4GB of RAM, and will be running the...

If you have been running the Android O Developer Preview 1 over the past few weeks on the Pixel and Pixel XL you have been doing so without root since there has previously been no root method. Today that changes! Pixel user Sachi31 discovered and posted a new root method for Android O...

One new feature that everyone has been enjoying in the developer preview of Android O is the ability to customize the nav bar through the System UI Tuner. It turns out this feature has been available since Nougat and without the need for root. Previous known methods to change the nav bar in...

ChainfireXDA has done it again. He already has a work in progress root method for Android O Developer Preview 1. This will work for the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. Some have reported bootloops on the first release of SuperSU, but Chainfire has already updated it with a second test version to...

Google released the developer preview of the latest version of Android yesterday. This build is meant to be used solely by developers so they can begin preparing their apps and games for the final build of Android O which will be rolled out to devices later in the year. Normally a Developer...

We are finally starting to see the first rumors pop up for the next iteration of Android, Android O, which we expect to be announced at Google I/O later this year. The first rumor focuses on some of the features that may be included with the new update. One new feature called "Copy Less" is an...

We finally have dates for Google IO. The event hosted by Google will begin on May 17th and will end on May 19th. The event is where developers are able to learn all about the latest and greatest projects from Google. Google has also made a habit of announcing their next big version of Android at...