The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Cross-platform development has presented a major challenge for most independent developers for many years. Quite often, it ...

Google packed this year’s Android developer announcements with enough AI tooling, adaptive UI updates, and cross-device ambitions to make a laptop fan spin just from reading the changelog. During ...

Users are noticing a new “Android Developer Verifier” app (com.google.android.verifier) silently installed on their Android phones to prepare for upcoming sideloading restrictions. The app checks if ...

A low-end Android purchase landed me at the XDA forums in 2011, trying to get the most out of it with the help of custom ROMs. After helping the community as a Recognized Contributor and a Forum ...

App programmers can finesse their apps by moving them to Android Studio to access broader developer features, or upload them to the Google Play Store for beta testing or publication. Readers ...

Android Auto Maker lets you repackage phones apps to run on your car display, but it comes with several technical trade-offs.

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in ...

Almost 20 years ago, Google pitched Android as the more open alternative to Apple’s walled garden. Last year, Google announced it would begin erecting its own walls through developer verification. The ...

Google today published an update on Android developer verification, which is set for its initial launch later this year and will continue into 2027. Since the registration process launched in March, ...

Google is backpedaling on its decision to introduce new identity verification rules for all developers, stating that it will also introduce accounts for limited app distribution and will allow users ...

Google has once again updated its “Android Bench” rankings for the best AI models for Android app development, with a bunch of new “open-weight” models as well as more details on the tokens used and ...