Google’s July Play services update improves Google One purchases, adds Wear OS work profile support, and expands Android developer tools.

Google has confirmed to Android Authority that the Android team will still review code contributions from external developers. The company also shared details on what branch of Android platform ...

Android is open in theory, but very closed in practice.

Android 17 does not position itself as a foldable-first operating system. There is little content allocated to optimizations for folding phones in the official feature list by Google. A gaming mode ...

Google buried one of Android's coolest features.

Despite Android's presence in nearly every corner of the tech industry, it has yet to truly establish a foothold on PC platforms. Google has had ChromeOS powering Chromebooks for years, but the ...

LineageOS says Google's new developer verification system for sideloading apps on Android will not affect devices running its ...

Next year, Google will prohibit sideloading on Android—one of the few prominent things differentiating the Android operating system from Apple's iOS. Per the forthcoming policy, Google will ask all ...

It’s been nearly 20 years since Google revealed Android, which the company described as the first “truly open” mobile operating system, setting Google-powered phones apart from the iPhone’s ...