Android Studio, the official dedicated development environment for Android apps, received updates to its AI agent ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. First of all, it might surprise you to hear that Google is releasing Android 16 DP1 today. After all, the first developer ...

What is the Android 16 Developer Preview? Google tests its major Android releases in stages. We're currently in the developer preview phase of Android 16's testing, which means that builds available ...

Google is changing its long-standing Play Store rules, letting Android developers promote external deals, link to downloads ...

Free Android app store F-Droid asks users to lobby government regulators to take action. Google says the move is needed to ...

The upcoming edition of Android includes revisions to make it tablet-friendly and improve battery efficiency, with few user-facing changes revealed yet. Google is giving developers their first crack ...

Google today just announced the date of its annual developer conference Google I/O, where we expect to learn a lot more about what Google has been working on over the last year. One product that ...

Since launching Google Play (née Android Market) in 2008, Google has never made a change to the US store that it didn’t want ...

"We're not too concerned. We're not making malicious apps. It should be fine and I totally understand why they'd want to do it," said Jeff Kao, co-founder of Ecorio, a Toronto-based developer. Ecorio ...

Google’s Android release cadence for Android has become a familiar annual ritual. A month ago, the company launched the first developer preview of Android 14 and now, a month later, here is the second ...