The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Your photos and videos are sensitive files that you probably don’t want apps to access without your consent. Unfortunately ...

“Material You” is the next major evolution of Google’s design language for Android. The new design has been appearing in more places throughout the OS over the past few months. Most recently, the time ...

Google Play is reaching out to many developers to tell them they need to adopt the privacy-preserving Android Photo Picker. Specifically, Google is contacting developers of Android apps that request ...

Google introduced a system photo picker in Android a while back, allowing for better privacy of the photos, videos, and files on your device. Now, Google is pushing for more Android apps to use the ...

Google is officially rolling out support for Google Photos and other cloud backup apps in the Android photo picker. With Android 13, the redesigned system photo picker was just a “gateway to your ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Google will soon add much-needed search functionality to the Android Photo Picker. The absence of this basic function has been causing a lot of friction for Android device users since Android 13. Why ...