In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens ...

Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google and others. It’s certainly possible to just follow the well-trodden path, ...

Google is pushing development of Android 17: the second beta follows just two weeks after the first.

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A group of privacy advocates and open-source leaders has signed an open letter urging Google to reverse its plans for mandatory developer verification, arguing the changes pose a physical threat to ...

The writing has been on the wall as Google has slowly moved away from Android as the core product and toward the bright light of artificial intelligence. This week’s news about how Google plans to ...

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...

This week’s Android headlines: all the Galaxy Unpacked and Galaxy S26 news, Honor’s new Robot, Nothing Phone (4a)’s colorful ...

The letter to Google leadership articulated deep concerns about mandatory developer identity verification requirements that will reshape the Android ecosystem.

Google wants to make app installations outside the Play Store more difficult if developers do not register. An open letter ...

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Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...