The source code for Android 16 QPR2 is now available following the update's rollout for Pixel devices. Here's why that matters.

"Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community," wrote Google software engineer David Bort on in a blog post on source.android.com. "All of the work that ...

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Google planned to announce on Tuesday that the source code for its mobile operating system, Android, is now available for anyone to use free. The move was expected, although the timing was uncertain.

Google is not discontinuing the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it has made big changes that affect how Android source code is shared, especially for those who build custom ROMs of Android.

AOSP stands for the Android Open Source Project, the public repository for Android’s source code. By releasing Android 15’s source code to AOSP, independent platform developers (i.e., those who build ...

Google is making some big changes to how it operates the open-source version of Android, aka the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). As reported by Android Authority, the company says it will soon ...

Google has just released the Android Security Bulletin for December, which includes an exhaustive list of vulnerabilities ...

We’re used to hearing about new Android versions during Google Pixel smartphone launch events, but Android 15’s source code is finally out at the Android Open Source Project. It was strangely missing ...

For the third year in a row, mobile open source software projects have more than doubled in number, with the current count at around 18,000, up from around 8,000 in 2010. The rise of mobile computing ...

If Black Duck Software’s knowledge base of open source software projects serves as a barometer, then Google’s Android software platform led the way in open source software development projects for ...

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