The issue stems from Intent, an API that Android uses to share content. Instead of sending the actual files, the API sends URIs, or Uniform Resource Identifiers, which point to files.

"Now in Android 11, we're giving users even more control with the ability to grant a temporary 'one-time' permission to sensitive data like location," reads the blog post.

At long last, the Health Connect app is expanding its "sharing data" function, allowing Android users to sync up their health information across multiple apps. The announcement came during Google ...

A curious team of scientists from Intel Labs, Penn State and Duke University recently utilized a so-called TaintDroid extension in order to log and monitor the actions of 30 Android apps -- 30 ...

VP of engineering for Android at Google, Dave Burke, today confirmed on Twitter that fixing the Android sharing menu is “a priority” in response to complaints over how slow it is.

Google is tweaking the Android OS to directly embed ‘location sharing’ into the main settings. This will also allow users to share their device’s location right from Android’s settings menu.