Specifically, Android's kernel was less than half of that--0.47 defects per 1,000 lines, Coverity said. Some bad news is that the Android-specific code had more problems.

Kroah-Hartman noted that some companies were already trying to strip the Android-specific interfaces from their code and push that upstream to the Linux kernel, "but that causes a much larger ...

Google has fixed two critical bugs affecting its Android handsets. The more serious flaws exists in the Android System component and allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Today we finally get our answer, with Android 14 set to go by the code name Upside Down Cake. Google formally clarifies the code name in some recent notes added to the AOSP (spotted by 9to5Google).

In a statement posted to an Android developer mailing list, Google software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru announced that the Android 4.0 source code is being rolled out to the public Android Open ...

Google has uploaded the majority of the remaining Chrome for Android code into the open-source Chromium repository. In other words, Chrome for Android now matches Chrome for desktop in terms of ...

Android Auto 15.1 brings Material 3 theme improvements, added Material 3 Expressive support, expanded vehicle compatibility, ...

"Android has been reducing the security impact of such code by locking down which processes have access to device drivers, which are often vendor-specific," explains Horn.

Now it is. Google has added a lot of Android-specific code to the Chromium project, allowing you to compile, examine, or modify the code. Chrome for Android isn’t entirely open source.