While jailbreaking iOS is the only way to install apps that aren’t available from the official App Store, Google Android is a bit more open. Most phones and tablets running Android let you install ...

Rooting an Android phone gives you deeper access to the operating system, allowing you to change system files and settings and install applications that integrated tightly with the operating system.

Google puts a lot of time into thinking about Android security, and has developed systems like the way the OS handles app permissions in order to give us control over how software gets to see our data ...