Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to use external libraries in Android Studio June 02, 2025 One of the most important lessons I ever learned as a developer, although it took some time to sink in, was “don’t reinvent the wheel.” Understanding how to use libraries in Android Studio is a big part of that. In other words: if you need to perform a common task, you probably don’t need to write the code yourself....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC records big revenue drop, but smaller losses, for Q4 2016 July 11, 2025 Like many of us,HTCis hoping that 2017 will turn out to be much better than 2016. The Taiwan-based smartphone maker announced its latest financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016 earlier today, and it was mostly bad news for the company. Overall revenue for the time period came in at NT$22....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI unveils breakthrough graphene-assisted Li-ion battery August 16, 2025 Watt Laboratory, an organization under HUAWEI’s Central Research Institute, has introduced a new graphene-assisted Li-ion battery which can withstand higher temperatures when compared with ordinary Li-ion batteries. The new batteries are able to function at a temperature of 60°C (140℉), which is 10°C (18℉) above the current upper limit. They can be used in cellular base stations in high-temperature regions around the world and have a lifespan that is twice as long as ordinary Li-ion batteries....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It’s happening: Xperia Z5 Premium with 4K screen demoed on video June 25, 2025 A series of hands-on images and specs aboutSony’supcoming trio of smartphones – Xperia Z5, Z5 Compact, and Z5 Premium –leaked yesterday, and now what appears to be the original source of the info has surfaced. A video from French websiteClubicshows a hands-on demo of the Xperia Z5 Premium andXperia Z5, conducted by a marketing executive of Sony France....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It’s taken a while, but WhatsApp could finally let you reject group invitations August 05, 2025 Juggling group chats can be an annoying endeavor, especially when people frivolously add you to mundane groups. Fortunately,WhatsAppseems to be working on a solution to this problem. WhatsApp news websiteWABetaInfohas uncovered hints of a group invitation system in the iOS version of the app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Judge approves lawsuit accusing Apple of lying about poor iPhone shipments July 21, 2025 A federal judge has given the green light to a class-action lawsuit against Apple related to falling iPhone shipments. The lawsuit alleges that Apple — and CEO Tim Cook, in particular — lied to investors to hide that iPhone sales weren’t going well (viaReuters). The class-action lawsuit is filed by the Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Rhode Island, a collective that supplies retirement, disability, and surVivor benefits to state employees....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG puts foldable phone on hold, focusing on “optional” dual displays instead June 30, 2025 LGhas paused its foldable phone plans after evaluating the current market viability of them, LG Electronics mobile and TV boss Brian Kwon has confirmed. Speaking at a Seoul press conference yesterday (viaThe Korea Times), Kwon said: “We have reviewed releasing the foldable smartphone when launching5Gsmartphone but decided not to produce it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft could have the secret to making foldable displays sturdier July 25, 2025 After the debacle surrounding the release of theSamsung Galaxy Fold, companies are likely scrambling to figure out how to make future foldable devices stronger. It turns out a Microsoft foldable display patent could be the key to making future foldables last longer. In a new set of Microsoft patents discovered byWindows United(viaThe Verge), we can see that Microsoft thinks a liquid-fortified hinge is an answer to keeping an unknown Microsoft foldable device lasting through continued use....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. My Emoji could be the next Samsung Galaxy S9 feature to come to older devices Jul 14, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy Note 8could be about to get theMy Emojifeature that first debuted on theSamsung Galaxy S9. Over the weekend, aReddituser noticed that the My Emoji Maker app was available for the Galaxy Note 8 on Samsung’s Galaxy Apps store. However, once installed, it is currently impossible to open the app for most users....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nexus phones likely won’t get Pixel and Pixel XL’s Night Light and fingerprint reader gestures June 03, 2025 While it was originally thought thatthere was a good chancethe Pixel and Pixel XL’s Night Light and fingerprint sensor gestures would make their way to Nexus devices, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Google team member Ian Blake has confirmed in a Google+ post that neither the Night Light nor the fingerprint reader gestures from the Pixel phones will come to theNexus 6PorNexus 5X....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nexus Player review: a good start for Android TV, but not without quirks August 20, 2025 Google has made several attempts to get into your living room, including the ill-fated Nexus Q, Google TV and, most recently, the Chromecast. With Android TV, Google goes back to the drawing board in some ways, while also taking the simplicity of design that we loved about the Chromecast and baking it in to a new Android 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 9 Lite could launch with a Snapdragon 865 to keep the price down June 27, 2025 It looks like OnePlus is ready to outdo itself in 2021 when it comes to the number of phones it launches in one go. According to a rumor stemming from an anonymous “insider source” speaking withAndroid Central, the company could launch three phones in the OnePlus 9 series early next year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OpenGL ES versus Vulkan, who is the performance king? August 03, 2025 Methodology of the tests At the moment, there is no easy way to test Vulkan versus OpenGL ES 3.1 on Android. My go to 3D engine Unreal Engine does not support the Android-24 API, so while Vulkan is technically supported, I was not able to get Vulkan working on my Nexus 6P to do this....