If you're a fan of open-source software, you'll be glad to know that there's plenty of FOSS software available for Android.

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 ...

Coming back to its Android app, Cashew supports the Material You theme. It looks beautiful, and the animations are intuitive. Unlike many open source apps, it doesn't feel or look like a half-hearted ...

The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) powers everything from smartphones to smartwatches. Here's what you need to know about Google's OS.

Android is big--with 11 million lines of code, about 8.6 million of them open-source according to an earlier interview with project leader Andy Rubin. But what's in Android exactly?

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.

A report from VisionMobile claims that Android is the most closed of all the open source projects on the market. All the report reveals is VisionMobile's lack of understanding of the word "open." ...

At the core of every flagship Android phone, underneath the layers of brand-specific and device-specific extras, lies the same open-source foundation of Android, the Android Open Source Project ...

The Android OS is, in strictly legal terms, open source. Android is released under the Apache 2.0 software license , which allows anyone to use, modify and redistribute the code.

After all, Android is all about being open, which means that once Google has released a new version, the OEMs and carriers are free to tinker with it to their heart's content.