Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

The pre-requisite step in any guide to sideloading an OTA or flashing a factory image is installing the Android Device Bridge. Previously, the official way to get adb or fastboot was by downloading ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s ADB and fastboot are incredibly powerful command line tools for customizing your Android phone. Up until now, these tiny tools have been bundled in the gigantic Android SDK ...

We've talked about how to flash an image using ROM Manager, but if you're more comfortable with a keyboard and mouse, fastboot might be easier for you to use. You'll ...

Breaking from tradition, the latest version of Android has arrived significantly earlier than it usually debuts. The new stable build of Android 16 brings plenty of major changes to the mix, including ...