Google has made the unusual decision to hold off on publicly releasing the source code for Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, at least until the company decides the OS is ready to run properly on a wide ...

If you like using open-source apps on your Android phone, you likely visit GitHub on a regular basis, since it's the largest open-source app repository out there. But GitHub, in its default form, is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. I’ve spent time with the Shiftphone 8, a smartphone pre-installed with ...

Google has confirmed a critical security vulnerability across Android versions 14, 15 and 16 that requires no user ...

Android source code releases, better known as AOSP releases, will no longer be coming multiple times a year, as Google confirms that it’s transitioning to pushing them out only twice a year instead.

Here we are in 2026, and yet one thing is the same: small studios or solo developers who have a limited budget but a big idea are most of the time developing for Android first. There are valid ...