Google is making it a bit more difficult to sideload certain apps.

If you've been anxious to check out Google's upcoming Android 15, you can now take the OS out for a spin. On Thursday, Google launched the first public beta for the latest version of Android. Although ...

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Android 17 app memory limits expand beyond Pixel to 4GB–16GB+ RAM devices, with slowdowns and termination for offenders.

With Android 17, Google is setting stricter rules for app memory usage. In a blog post on the Android Developer Blog, the company writes that memory limits per app in Android 17 are to be extended to ...

Android is slowly entering the RISC-V era. So far we’ve seen Google say it wants to give the up-and-coming CPU architecture “tier-1” support in Android, putting RISC-V on equal footing with Arm.

Google has restarted the rollout of Android 17 for eligible Pixel devices, resuming its beta release cycle after a short interruption. The company confirmed the update through its Android Developers ...

Android apps will soon be facing penalties for excess battery drain on the Play Store, but developers will be made aware of these issues and have time to fix them before they are penalized, per Google ...

Looks like the next version of Google’s Android OS will actually swallow the features from the “Cupcake” development branch whole, at least that’s how it looks from an early peek at the SDK Google ...

The competition between Apple and Google over the mobile landscape has always been as much about philosophy as it has market share. Apple's iOS is restricted to the devices it builds, and ...