Android 16 introduces a new feature that lets you run full desktop Linux apps, but Qualcomm Snapdragon chips don't support it. Here's why.

Amazon Fire TV and Fire tablet devices ship with an operating system called Fire OS. And for more than a decade, that operating system has been a fork of Android. But according to a report from Janko ...

Android's new Canary update enables support for graphical Linux apps in the Linux terminal, making it more versatile. The update introduces a simple way to launch graphical apps through the Weston ...

With Microsoft killing the only official way of running everyday Android apps on PC, I found an alternative that doesn't use emulation at all!

When Google unveiled ChromeOS more than a decade ago, the company made it clear that this was an operating system designed for desktop and laptop computers, while Android would continue to be its ...

You’ve probably heard about Google Chromebooks. Like Android, Chrome OS is based on some variant of Linux, but it is targeted at the “cloud first” strategy so Chromebooks typically don’t have a huge ...

What just happened? For all the native apps and tools available on platforms like Chrome OS, sometimes you just need a good old Linux program to get things done, especially if you are a developer.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in ...

Windows is not the perfect operating system for everyone. We show you what alternatives there are and the advantages and ...

One major benefit of using iOS is that it makes it incredibly easy to sync between your iPhone and your Mac desktops and laptops. On the other hand, Android isn't quite so embedded into other systems ...