Open-source apps can have a mixed reputation. They're often seen as being very powerful but lack the polish of their closed-source counterparts. But it doesn't have to be like that. Some of the best ...

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 ...

The operating system that powers every Android phone and tablet on the market is based on AOSP, short for the Android Open Source Project. Google develops and releases AOSP under the permissive Apache ...

I have eight years of experience covering Android, with a focus on apps, features, and platform updates. I love looking at even the minute changes in apps and software updates that most people would ...

Jolla, the Finnish smartphone startup that expanded the MeeGo open source project into its own Sailfish OS, has released its first Android launcher — to give users of Google’s mobile platform a taster ...

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.