About r/Android
In its own words:
Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps. General discussion about devices is welcome. Please direct technical support, upgrade questions, buy/sell, app recommendations, and carrier-related issues to other subreddits.
Community guide
r/Android (#329, about 3.2 million) covers Android news, reviews, tips, rooting, tutorials, and apps—direct tech support, upgrades, buy/sell, app recs, and carrier issues elsewhere. Rules: on-topic; no support questions/rants/bug reports; images/videos in self-posts constraints; no self-promo spam, reposts/blogspam, editorialized titles, piracy, unauthorized polls/bots/giveaways, low-effort comments, or affiliate links. Text/Link (~36.2 ppd).
Android news/discussion, not support
News, reviews, rooting, apps discussion fit; support/rants/bug reports go elsewhere.
Titles and anti-affiliate
No editorialized titles; no affiliate links or piracy.
Practical pointers
Text/link/image mix; Review/News flairs; filtered-rule-2 appears for support removals.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Aug 27, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,629 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/wow (#327) and ahead of r/popheads (#330) in our ranking.
What sets r/Android apart
Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (14:00 UTC) sees about 11.0× as many posts as the quietest (23:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Android climbed from 3,190,893 to 3,201,159 subscribers (+10.3K, +0.32%). That is about 233 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Android talks about
Across 243 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “phone”, “google”, “app”, “pro” and “game”. Other frequent themes are apps, samsung, built, play, battery and pixel. Recurring phrases include “google play”, “samsung galaxy”, “google messages” and “elite extreme”. By format, 49% are text posts, 21% are links and 19% are images.
Popular post flairs: Review (21), Filtered - rule 2 (18), News (18), Article (13), Video (6), Rumour (2).
Activity and best time to post
r/Android gets about 36 new posts a day. The public archive holds 876,264 posts and 14,271,348 comments in total, about 16.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (46 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (21). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 23:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Android
The moderators of r/Android list 10 rules. In short:
- Rule 1 - Off Topic
- Rule 2 - No support questions/rants/bug-reports
- Rule 3 - Images/videos in self-posts
- Rule 4 - No self-promotional spamming
- Rule 5 - No reposts or blog-spam/rehosted content
- Rule 6 - No editorializing titles
- Rule 7 - No piracy
- Rule 8 - No unauthorized polls, bots or giveaways.
- Rule 9 - No offensive or low-effort comments.
- Rule 10 - No affiliate links
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Android and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/Android have?
r/Android has 3,201,159 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #329 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 10,266 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/Android created?
r/Android was created on Aug 27, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
Is r/Android still active?
Yes. r/Android gets about 36 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 876,264 posts and 14,271,348 comments. In a sample of 243 recent posts we counted 187 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/Android?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 23:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/Android?
The community describes itself as: “Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps. General discussion about devices is welcome. Please direct technical support, upgrade questions, buy/sell, app recommendations, and carrie…” Recent post titles often mention phone, google, app, pro and game. Most posts are text posts (49%).
Is r/Android SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Android as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/Android?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Android accepts both text and link posts, with images enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Rule 1 - Off Topic”; “Rule 2 - No support questions/rants/bug-reports”; “Rule 3 - Images/videos in self-posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Android?
Communities with similar topics include r/Tinder (6M), r/BuyItForLife (4M), r/Filmmakers (3.1M), r/StockMarket (4.1M) and r/CryptoTechnology (1.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Android.