I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. XDA Senior Recognized Developer Chainfire is best known for his work on SuperSU, the root solution that the Android ...

A pebble dropped in the Android ocean and it might cause large waves that will be felt long after. Chainfire, the Android superstar behind root utility SuperSU, has announced his retirement from ...

Some have been prophesying the eventual death of rooting on Android. If true, it's a very slow death. While it will probably never go away, development might soon be left to languish by the wayside.

There’s a new project from developer Chainfire that should make at least one major problem associated with flashing a stock image through fastboot disappear. In fact, “firmware.mobi,” as the project ...

Chainfire has updated both LiveBoot and FlashFire to work with Android 8.0 (Oreo), in addition to introducing other fixes for its apps. The changes to LiveBoot that enable Oreo compatibility pertain ...