With an inexpensive USB OTG adapter, you can connect things like keyboards, USB hard drives, and even gaming controllers to your Android phone or tablet. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of Content ...

Person connecting a USB flash drive to a phone - Vershinin89/Shutterstock Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard port found on many devices. Most phones, including ...

The use of Android-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs), tablets, and other products has been growing tremendously since 2008, with Android devices occupying 70% of the mobile market today. Similarly, ...

USB On-the-go or USB OTG is a standard protocol that allows devices to read data from a USB device without the need of connecting them to a PC. The device uses the OTG cable to turn itself into a USB ...

With the coming of Android 3.1 you finally have the option of using the device as a USB host. This may be through a USB OTG (On-the-Go) adaptor, but nonetheless it’s a feature which was sorely missed ...

One of the bugs that’s been plaguing Amazon Kindle Fire users who have installed early builds of Android 4.0 on the $199 tablet appears to be fixed. Developer JackpotClavin has released a new build of ...

Google is continuing its development of Android Things with the latest preview of the platform. Released today, Developer Preview 3 finally adds the biggest feature request from developers, as well as ...

Both of these Human Interface Device (HID) protocols let your Android phone act in host-mode for other peripheral devices, instead of your phone being relegated to a peripheral-only device. The list ...

I never knew USB-C had so many other uses.

eXtream Software Development, maker of the music multi-tracking app Audio Evolution for the Android and Windows platforms, has released a stand-alone app for Android devices titled USB Audio Recorder ...

Although a lot of data now flies wirelessly to the cloud, smartphone users still often plug their devices into a charger, car or laptop via USB. Using a multi-stage trick, security experts have ...