General Android

Google says Adiantum is built specifically to run on phones and devices that don’t have the specialised hardware to use current methods to encrypt locally stored data efficiently

Google has announced its latest September 2018 platform stats for all the different versions of Android out in the wild.

The importance and spread of Google Assistant, to bring Google AI to different platforms, continues: there's now UK availability of Google Assistant integrated into Android Auto.

It would be rude not to mark the tenth anniversary of the first Android phone this Sunday, wouldn't it?

The main takeaway is that it's too soon for the recent official release of Android "Pie", version 9, to appear in the figures.

Some newer devices are keeping up to date, tracking Android developments. Older devices, not so much...

Version 8, "Oreo", also finally registers, with an almost 5% share, but of course its successor is already in the starting blocks...

Google releases the latest platform stats for Android, giving a break down on the share for the various versions of Android out in the wild, for February 2018.

An interesting comment piece posits that Google is moving towards a post-Operating System world, and AI is the key agent of change.

Google unifies the different ways to pay with Google, for example Android Pay or Google Wallet, into a single system called Google Pay.