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Moment Apps for Android, reported in Google's I/O designer gathering a year ago, was labeled as an element that would perpetually change how clients download applications into their cell phones. In a post on the Android Developers blog, it was uncovered that the component has now been discharged through a couple applications, as a major aspect of a restricted test that clients can partake in. What Is Android Instant Apps?  The Instant Apps highlight for Android will permit clients to download and run applications on their cell phones and tablets without going through the full establishment handle. While getting to specific sites, clients may see proposals to rather download a specific application. The application will take into consideration a streamlined cell phone understanding to get to the substance of the site, however clients can skirt the establishment procedure of the application and get to the program adaptation of the site. Moment Apps will permit Android a...

Uber is now tracking your location even after you leave the car. A location-tracking feature that the ride-sharing company proposed last year has gone live, despite fierce opposition from privacy advocates. The good news is that you can turn it off; the bad news is that the process is trickier than it should be. The Naked Security blog from Sophos, a British security firm, has all the details. Version 3.222.4 of the Uber app for Android and iOS adds the new location-tracking feature. In previous versions, Uber kept track of your location only when you had the app open — a sensible enough feature, given that it helped dispatch cars right to you. The new version, however, keeps tracking after you get out of the car, through your phone's location settings. Although you can turn off location tracking, as Uber promised, the company played a cruel trick by forcing users to leave the app and grapple with the sometimes-unintuitive Android and OS settings menus. Even worse: For ...

Here's some bad news for Android users again. Certain low-cost Android smartphones and tablets are shipped with malicious firmware, which covertly gathers data about the infected devices, displays advertisements on top of running applications and downloads unwanted APK files on the victim's devices. Security researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web have discovered two types of downloader Trojans that have been incorporated in the firmware of a large number of popular Android devices operating on the MediaTek platform, which are mostly marketed in Russia. The Trojans, detected as Android.DownLoader.473.origin and Android.Sprovider.7, are capable of collecting data about the infected devices, contacting their command-and-control servers, automatically updating themselves, covertly downloading and installing other apps based on the instructions it receives from their server, and running each time the device is restarted or turned on. The list of Android device...