Chrooma looks great on any smartphone. Screenshots: Google Play

If you’re running Android 5.0 Lollipop on your smartphone and you want a clean and colorful wallpaper to go with it, look no further than Chrooma Live Wallpaper.

Built by the team behind the popular Chrooma game, this animated background puts gorgeous palettes on your home screen that change color every time you return.

Google Play is getting ads. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Google’s mission to make money from Android is just about to get started. Starting today, a new “pilot program” will see sponsored results (ads) appearing in your Play Store searches.

Android devs beware. Screenshot: Cult of Android

If you’re an Android developer, nothing makes you panic quite like a term violation email from Google that threatens to pull your app from the Play Store. It’s even more worrying when it turns out to be a complete fake designed to steal your Google login credentials.

Facebook has just released a ‘Lite’ version of their app on the Google Play store that is meant to use less data and work on even slower mobile data networks. The app is aimed at low-end Android devices and targeted towards users in developing markets like Nepal and Bangladesh where 2G mobile data is still prevalent.

The Google Play Edition One M8 is no more. Photo: HTC

The day pure Android fans have been dreading is finally here; the last remaining Google Play Edition smartphone — the HTC One M8 — has been removed from the Play Store, almost certainly confirming the end of Google’s program. The only pure Android smartphones you can buy from the search giant now are its own Nexus handsets.