In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens ...

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You may be wondering why Android 17 Beta is already here without several Android 17 Developer Preview builds before it? The ...

Google has announced the availability of the first developer preview release for Android 16. Developer previews, for those who are unfamiliar, are made available so developers can test their apps to ...

The likes of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group signed an open letter from the Keep Android Open project in opposition to developer registration, which opens next month and will ...

Google is putting together its framework for Android developer verification, connecting dev names to even sideloaded apps. Recent additions to the Android SDK offer a little insight into how the ...

Google wants to make app installations outside the Play Store more difficult if developers do not register. An open letter ...

About a month ago, Google surprised us by releasing the first Android 16 developer preview barely a month after the stable Android 15 update came out. It began a much faster development timeline than ...

That's less than previous years, but still a worryingly high number ...

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