Linux has emerged as a preferred platform for Android app development due to its stability, security, and the extensive range of tools and libraries available. This guide will walk you through the ...

Valve is developing Lepton, an Android compatibility layer for Linux, enabling Android apps and games to run natively on ...

Google and Ubuntu-maker Canonical have teamed up to bring desktop Linux support to Flutter, enabling developers to build apps for Linux desktops, starting with Ubuntu through Canonical's app store.

The latest Android 15 QPR2 beta adds the new Terminal app that we previously reported on. The Terminal app lets developers run Linux apps in a virtual machine. It needs to be activated by toggling a ...

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 has long been focused on running mobile apps, but in recent years, features aimed at developers and power users have begun pushing its boundaries. One exciting frontier: running full Linux ...

Lindroid is a new open source app that lets you install a GNU/Linux distro on an Android device and run Linux applications with full support for your phone’s hardware. It does this by putting Linux ...

Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it ...

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.

Someone at Valve must have a real passion for particle physics and science. After building Proton – the massively successful compatibility layer for running Windows x86 ...

This means common commands and utilities usually beyond the reach of Android users can now be issued on the phone. The terminal supports installing packages, retrieving information on the phone, and ...

Google and Apple have come to dominate the smartphone space in recent years, but there are a small (but growing) number of phones that ship with GNU/Linux-based operating systems instead. But as of ...