The open nature of Android is about see a big change, as Google looks to enforce its verification policy for all developers.

Google used to do very little curation of the Play Store (or Android Market, if you go back far enough), but it has long ...

Learn more. Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

There’s a new(ish) smartphone operating system aimed at folks who want to be able to run Android apps, but want additional security and privacy features. It’s called GrapheneOS, and it comes ...

Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux.