What happens when you're locked in to a vendor that's too big to fail, butis on the opposite end of a trade war?The story of Google no longer giving Huawei access to Android updates is stilldeveloping, so by the time you read this, the situation may have changed. At themoment, Google has granted Huawei a 90-day window whereby it will have access toAndroid OS updates, the Google Play store and other Google-owned Android assets.After that point, due to trade negotiations between the US and China, Huawei nolonger will have that access.

We need a free software mobile operating system. Is it eelo?Remember Windows? It was an operating system that was quite popularin the old days of computing. However, its global market share hasbeen in decline for some time, and lastyear, the Age of Windows ended, and the Age of Android began.

Android apps meet the desktop in the Chromebook.

Google's Project Fi is a great cell-phone service, but the data-only SIMsmake it incredible for network projects!I have a lot of cell phones. I have iPhones (old and new), Android phones(old, new, very old and funny-shaped), and I have a few legacy phones thataren't either Android or iPhone. Remember Maemo? Yeah, and I still have one of those oldNokia phones somewhere too. Admittedly, part of the reason I have sucha collection is that I tend to hoard nostalgic technology, but part ofit is practical too.

There comes a time when having a full-fledged Linux distribution withinreach is necessary or just plain useful. And, what could be more within reach thanhaving that same distribution on a computing device most peoplehave with them at all times? Yes, I'm talking about a smartphone—specifically, anAndroid-powered smartphone. Enter UserLAnd.

Facebook Live is simple to broadcast from a mobile device. Simply click"go live", and you're broadcasting on your timeline. Unfortunately, ifyou want to use a desktop computer with a webcam or remote IP camera,the process is a little more complicated.

Shawn takes a quick look at "The World's Most Annoying Alarm Clock App".

Introducing the Pzizz Android app.

My phone is dead. I'm not exactly sure what happened to it, but for somereason, my beloved Sony Xperia Z5 Compact no longer turns on. Granted,it's not my main work phone, but it's my personal phone and also myaudiobook player. The biggest problem is that when I'm exploring newAndroid apps, the Sony is the device I use for testing. Thankfully,there are other options.

For years I've been jealous of folks with iOS devices who could just sendtheir phone screens to their Apple TV devices. It seems like the Androidscreen-mirroring protocols never work right for me. My Sony Xperia hasmultiple types of screen mirroring, and none of them seem to work on mysmart TVs or Roku devices.

I love IFTTT (If This Then That),butalthough it usually workswell, it's more and more common for triggers to fail. Sometimes theydon't fail, but take several minutes to activate. When you want a lightto turn on as you enter a room, several minutes of delay clearlycan be a deal-breaker.

I love reading. Sadly, the 24 hours I get per day seems to be inadequatefor the tasks I need to accomplish. That might change as my teenagersturn into college kids and then begin to start families of their own. Fornow, however, between drama class and basketball practice, it seems likeit takes about 30 hours to accomplish a 24-hour day.

It feels weird to mention a Microsoft product in LinuxJournal. But tobe honest, there are some cool things coming out of the Microsoft GarageOne of those things is"Next Lock Screen",which is an Android app that brings interactive tools to the lock screen.

Last weekend my work phone suddenly stopped working. Not the phoneitself, but rather all service stopped. I first noticed (of course) dueto an inability to load any web pages. Then I tried calling someone andrealized my phone was disconnected. In fact, when someone tried to callme, it said the line was no longer in service.

I don't very often play games. I know that seems odd, because I do often writeabout gaming. Honestly though, I very rarely actually take the time toplay video games. Recently, however, there has been an exception to that rule.

People's phones and all of the various sensors that may be built in to themis asource of scientific data logging that almost everyone carries around.Although the selection of sensors varies from phone to phone,they almost all have a camera. In this article, I take alook at a piece of software called Tracker that can be used to analyzevideos you take of experiments.

Google Cardboard should be terrible. Really, it should. It's literallymade of cardboard. I remember as a kid some cereal boxes came with spyglasses you had to cut out of the box itself—and they were terrible. ButGoogle Cardboard is amazing. Granted, you need to add your $750 Androidphone to it, but that's already in your pocket anyway.

People who study the history of languages probably will look back at ourcurrent time and scratch their heads. We keep inventing verbs! First,Google became the verb we use for searching. Then, "Facebooking" someonebecame a viable way to contact them. Heck, I forgot about "texting"someone. It seems we just keep taking perfectly good nouns and makingthem verbs.

I listen to a lot of books. A lot. And honestly, although I've written aboutthe "Listen" app for audiobooks, I tend to use Audible more than anythingelse anymore. Part of the reason is the Android app finally has morefine-grained speed settings. (I prefer around 1.4x speed.) iPhone peopledon't have that seemingly simple feature. Just saying.

I do a lot of system administration with my thumbs. Yes, if I'mhome, I grab a laptop or go to my office and type in a real terminalwindow. Usually, when things go wrong though, I'm at my daughters' volleyballmatch or shopping with my wife. Thankfully, most tasks can be doneremotely via SSH. There are lots of SSH clients for Android, but myfavorite is JuiceSSH.