Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson is embracing the age of agentic AI. Hansson said that he's seeing that senior developers are best able to use AI coding tools. The veteran developer said ...

Vivo finally joins its Chinese rivals, Oppo, OnePlus, and Realme, to offer its users early access to Android 17 via the Developer Preview program. This preview program build is based on Android 17 ...

Instead of ending sideloading entirely, Google is introducing a new way to share and install third-party apps. This includes a system‑level Android Developer Verifier app that debuted Monday. The app ...

Google on Monday said it's officially rolling out Android developer verification to all developers to combat the problem of bad actors distributing harmful apps while "hiding behind anonymity." The ...

After detailing the “advanced flow” for sideloading earlier this month, Google is opening the Android developer verification process to developers today. Google today provided a more detailed timeline ...

Google has begun rolling out Android developer verification to all developers via the Android Developer and Play Developer Consoles ahead of its public launch later this year. “As an extra layer of ...

Google is trying to defuse one of the sharpest criticisms of its new Android developer verification regime. The company announced it is creating a formal path for users to keep sideloading apps from ...

Google Announces New Sideloading Rules for Android With Developer Verification, Security Delay Maintaining platform integrity has become increasingly critical, with a global footprint of over 3 ...

A hot potato: A year after announcing the most significant change to Android in a long time, Google is now introducing a new process aimed at making the mobile platform "open" again. Mountain View ...

Evaluating LLMs for mobile programming tasks has become easier with Google introducing a leaderboard that benchmarks how well AI models handle Android development. Engineering teams often struggle to ...

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 ...

In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens innovation, competition, privacy, and user freedom. Google’s planned Android ...