For Android app developers that have been slow to adopt Google’s push for themed app icons, there’s no longer a choice.

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, ...

Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the ...

Google plans to move all development of Android OS behind closed doors so that the process will no longer be visible to the public. This change is a big shift for Android, which has long allowed ...

Google's upcoming developer verification system for Android may prevent users from sideloading apps without an internet ...

The presentation of apps on large displays will inevitably be flexible in future. Android 16 Beta 1 lays the foundation for this. Following the Developer Preview, Google has now launched the beta ...

Since the beginning of Android, it’s been developed out in the open as part of the Android Open Source Project. However, it seems that they now will take this private, and develop the Android OS fully ...

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 ...

Google complicates development of custom ROMs such as Lineage for Pixel smartphones. The hardened Android version GrapheneOS is particularly affected. Google has thrown a spanner in the works of the ...