To help us all better understand Android, Google has made it possible to browse and search through Android Open Source Project code.

Android has always been an open-source project, meaning its core code is publicly available for anyone to see, use, or modify—in this case, through AOSP.

The leader of the Android Open Source Project quits as he raises questions about the limitations of Google's open-source phone efforts inside the proprietary world of mobile handset hardware vendors.

Android users claim the platform is “not open source anymore” after Google’s sideloading changes, with some considering ...

When Google announced the Android operating system and established the Open Handset Alliance to support it, the plan was always to release the mobile operating system as open-source code. Today ...

Google has apparently been thinking along the same lines, and in a lengthy blog post Tuesday, the company announced that the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for low-level OS components.

Less open source code means more work for Google's competitors. While you can't kill an open source app, you can turn it into abandonware by moving all continuing development to a closed source model.

Nova Launcher, one of Android's most loved customization tools, is now going away for good and Android fans are not taking it ...