The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Ahead of the holidays, Google is pushing out the ...

You may be wondering why Android 17 Beta is already here without several Android 17 Developer Preview builds before it? The ...

Inside Google's AI plan to end Android developer toil - and speed up innovation ...

Gemini for Android will become agentic: Initially, users of a Pixel 10 or Galaxy S26 – in the US and Korea – will be able to ...

Google has announced the availability of the first developer preview release for Android 16. Developer previews, for those who are unfamiliar, are made available so developers can test their apps to ...

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

The likes of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group signed an open letter from the Keep Android Open project in opposition to developer registration, which opens next month and will ...

Droid, etc., have called for the reversal of the mandatory developer registration policy of Google for Android.

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Google is putting together its framework for Android developer verification, connecting dev names to even sideloaded apps. Recent additions to the Android SDK offer a little insight into how the ...

That's less than previous years, but still a worryingly high number ...

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