Hardware-based attestation / intrusion detection app for Android devices. It provides both local verification with another Android device via QR codes and optional scheduled server-based verification ...

With HyperOS, Xiaomi will now allow users to unlock the bootloader on their Android phones. This, however, isn’t really a change, as Xiaomi has required users to apply to unlock their bootloader ...

Xiaomi’s new approach to bootloader unlocking raises concerns among enthusiasts Xiaomi was imposing significant restrictions on bootloader unlocking for its HyperOS-running phones.

Kotlin’s rise traces many years of steady growth of the Kotlin community. Today, Kotlin is a “fierce” competitor to Java, according to software quality services vendor Tiobe. “The main ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...

Older Pixels don't have the same ARC setup as the Pixel 6 family, so you could unlock the bootloader and flash Android 12 (or an even earlier build) if you want. Not that you should.

If you want to flash Android 13 onto your Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, or Pixel 6A, you won’t be able to flash back to Android 12 later because of a bootloader update.