After years of in-house programming work, Google's mobile-phone operating system is now open-source software. Next: will it catch on as a collaborative project?

It seems this fresh Android prototype has once again stirred up interest in the open-source OS, and one of the common questions is "what smartphone… ...

Thanks to a vibrant developer community, Android users have access to a fantastic selection of open-source apps. Whether you seek transparency, trust, or freedom from locked-down ecosystems, open ...

Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) ...

The leader of the Android Open Source Project quits as he raises questions about the limitations of Google's open-source phone efforts inside the proprietary world of mobile handset hardware vendors.

There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been ...

It is not that open-source hardware has not seen any success; wherever the hardware has gone open source, it becomes a great success story. Arduino, an open-source microcontroller board, is a poster ...

The evolution of Android OS from version 1.0 to Android 11 in 2020 is a remarkable journey of innovation, design improvements ...

Hardware devices like smartphones and laptop computers rely on software behind the scenes to function correctly. Software is a set of codes and instructions. Without it, the hardware doesn't know ...

Most of Android's problems stem from the fact that it is an open source operating system.

Droid-ify is a third-party client built specifically for browsing and managing the F-Droid catalog, and it makes discovery ...

Open-source hardware is gaining attention on a variety of fronts, from chiplets and the underlying infrastructure to the ecosystems required to support open-source and hybrid open-source and ...