Android 17 may finally add the native App Lock feature Pixel users have been waiting for

Google is working on a native App Lock feature, and it could arrive as early as Android 17 next year. Here's how it might work!

Android's native app lock feature may arrive next year

Looking through the latest Android Canary 2512 release, Android Authority's Mishaal Rahman found evidence of a new App Lock ...

Android Automotive will let you PIN-lock apps to keep them private from passengers

Google’s new Sensitive App Protection feature for Android Automotive lets you PIN-lock specific apps to hide them from passengers.
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Microsoft is making Android apps streaming on Windows 11 more native with expanded mode

Phone Link experiments launching apps in extended mode on Windows 11 but it needs a lot of improvement to work.
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...
Android

Privacy Alarm: Meta Caught De-Anonymizing Android Web Activity

A new report reveals that Meta and Yandex have found a way to bypass Android’s privacy controls by passing web identifiers from browsers to their native apps, effectively de-anonymizing users’ web ...
ZDNet

A Linux terminal app for native Android development? Here's why I'm bullish

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...