Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

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F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to ...

Update, February 13, 2026 (02:39 PM ET): We’re a couple days behind schedule now, but Google has finally confirmed the arrival of Android 17 Beta 1. Update, February 11, 2026 (02:20 PM ET): While ...

There is no shortage of document applications available on Android, but you don’t want just any old document app. What you want is a full-featured office suite alternative that gives you everything ...

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Besides replacing Developer Previews, the Android 17 Beta cycle is operating on a faster release schedule. The continuous Android Canary channel introduced last year has replaced Developer Previews.

Google on Wednesday released the first beta of Android 17, which brings performance improvements and a way to add new features to media and camera apps. Most importantly, it’s changing how developers ...

Android users are poised to anywhere between $100 to $135 million as part of two new Google settlements. Android users accused Google of programming its Android operating system to collect their ...

A conservative political group cofounded by late activist Charlie Kirk livestreamed an alternative halftime show Sunday, Feb. 8, as the official Apple Music Super Bowl 60 halftime show aired on NBC.