Confirming app verification status will be the job of a new system component called the Android Developer Verifier, which ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. First of all, it might surprise you to hear that Google is releasing Android 16 DP1 today. After all, the first developer ...

Do you like writing software for Android, perhaps even sideload the occasional APK onto your Android device? In that case some big changes are heading your way, with Google announcing that they will ...

Free Android app store F-Droid asks users to lobby government regulators to take action. Google says the move is needed to ...

Are your rights gone? F-Droid warns Android sideloading verification rules strip freedom, letting Google decide what apps you ...

F-Droid claims Google’s new developer rules will quietly restrict sideloading and weaken Android’s long-standing openness.

Alternative app store F-Droid warns Google is misleading people when it says sideloading on Android isn't going anywhere.

What is the Android 16 Developer Preview? Google tests its major Android releases in stages. We're currently in the developer preview phase of Android 16's testing, which means that builds available ...

Google will soon verify the identities of developers who distribute Android apps outside the Play Store. Developers must submit their information to a new Android Developer Console, increasing their ...

We then discovered that the original G1 Android gPhone is already on sale down under, thanks to grey imports, but now the news comes that Google itself will sell the G1 gPhone to Australians directly ...