Android is in a strange place at the moment; it's stronger than ever, but feels further away from what launched almost 20 years ago.

In a surprising move, Motorola is teaming up with GrapheneOS to deliver a privacy-focused Android experience right out of the ...

In 2027, a major phone OEM will ship phones with a new open-source OS. Security and privacy are the big selling points of Motorola's GrapheneOS phones. Some users are concerned about Motorola's ...

It’s been nearly 20 years since Google revealed Android, which the company described as the first “truly open” mobile operating system, setting Google-powered phones apart from the iPhone’s ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Recently, the well-known custom ROM known as Lineage OS received an official update to Android 16 with a new build number 23 in the stable channel. This brought Android 16 to even more smartphones ...

Google released the January 2026 Android Security Bulletin, fixing a critical zero-click vulnerability in the Dolby Digital Plus Codec. While Pixel users already received this patch in December, they ...

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.

Stock Android comes loaded with apps you didn’t ask for, bloatware you can’t remove, and tracking services that send your data to Google constantly. What is LineageOS? It’s the open-source alternative ...

Google's December 2025 security update patched 107 vulnerabilities for Android devices. For a complete catalog of all the issues, you can refer to the update notes hosted on the the Android Security ...

In its latest Android Security Bulletin, Google disclosed 107 zero-day vulnerabilities affecting elements of its mobile operating system and any system relying on the open source version of it, ...