Android is free to device makers, but it seems there are a few catches. A couple of documents examined by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday show that Android phone and tablet makers must adhere ...

The Android OS is, in strictly legal terms, open source. Android is released under the Apache 2.0 software license, ... Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, ...

Higher up in the Android stack, choice and freedom are facilitated by the platform's inherent modularity. Developers can replace and extend many core components.

Lately, a movement toward embedded as a platform is creating new opportunities by leveraging the Android OS. Topics ... The beauty of an open source operating system like Android however, ...

Instead, it'll leave that to established players like HTC, LG, and Samsung -- and theoretically, anyone else that wants to have a go at it since the Android platform and its code base is wide open ...

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.

One of Android's biggest strengths (an open platform) is also a huge weakness. If you want pure Android, not a version skinned to look like whatever the third-party hardware maker decided, ...

An organization founded in 2007 by Google, T-Mobile, Qualcomm, Motorola and others that sponsors and promotes the Android open mobile phone platform. Based on Linux, Android was developed to ...

Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when. The ostensible reason is, we ...

Apple's Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development through the establishment of a ...