Android has always offered users far greater control over the software experience, whether in the form of baked-in features or additions through third-party apps available on the Play Store. Things ...

The Android team has announced that the Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop is now stable. This release adds developer productivity enhancements, such as the ability to analyze crash reports using ...

Google launches Gen AI Kotlin SDK 1.0.0, giving Kotlin developers native access to Gemini models for Android, server-side, and multiplatform ...

Developer verification will soon block the installation of apps from unverified developers on any Android device running Google services, which is functionally all Android phones outside Russia and ...

A month after Google announced the first developer preview for Android 16, devs can now download and install Android 16 developer preview 2 to test out apps. This latest build brings app experience ...

Google Android sideloading restrictions: what changes September 30, and what doesn't Google's Android developer verification rule gets its first ...

In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens innovation, competition, privacy, and user freedom. Google’s planned Android ...