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 ...

Starting September 30, apps from developers who have not been verified by Google can no longer be installed or updated through participating app stores on certified Android devices in Brazil, ...

Android 18 has made its first official appearance, tucked into a session listing on Google's newly published Android Dev Summit 2026 agenda. The session promises "powerful new graphics features" for ...

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 ...

Google is setting new Android app memory requirements for February 2027 as developers face stricter Play Store thresholds and rising RAM pressure. Google just made a big response to the RAM crisis, ...

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 ...

Google has announced new performance standards for applications on Google Play, alongside improved app efficiency measures to address the rising cost of smartphone RAM memory and ensure smoother ...

Apple’s Swift language now has an official path to Android. The first preview of the Swift SDK for Android lets developers build Android apps in Swift with supported tools, not community workarounds.

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 ...

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 ...