What is Android? This quick guide is a perfect shortcut to getting familiar with the world's most popular operating system.

What is the Android System? Essentially, it’s everything that is included in the Android Open Source Project, which is available for anyone to use.

Android is the most popular open source operating system (OS) globally and shows no signs of slowing down. Its presence across various products, from Android-based tablets and smartphones to smart ...

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

Android System WebView allows your device to display web-based content inside regular apps without resorting to a web browser like Chrome.

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

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.

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. On a closed-source OS like Windows ...

The Android OS is, in strictly legal terms, open source. Android is released under the Apache 2.0 software license, which allows anyone to use, modify and redistribute the code.

Android System Intelligence (ASI) is behind most smart features on devices, from budget phones to high-end tablets. If you've updated it several times in the Google Play Store without knowing what ...

At the same time, Android—the open-source operating system that powers billions of smartphones—has grown into a robust platform for more than just mobile devices.