My phone is more than a phone now.

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

The key to this change is a new terminal app that uses the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF). With this app, users can run Linux commands on their Android device through a virtual machine (VM).

Android’s Linux Terminal app can now run graphical Linux apps in the latest Canary build, a major step forward for the feature. A new “Display” button launches a graphical environment, letting users ...

And emulation software allows you to run some x86 apps and games on Arm-based processors, as well as play some Windows games on Linux systems. All of which is to say, it probably shouldn’t be ...

Canonical has launched a new Android app that lets Ubuntu One users stream music from the cloud to an Android device. The Ubuntu One service lets you upload files from an Ubuntu Linux computer to the ...