In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens ...

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You may be wondering why Android 17 Beta is already here without several Android 17 Developer Preview builds before it? The ...

Google has announced the availability of the first developer preview release for Android 16. Developer previews, for those who are unfamiliar, are made available so developers can test their apps to ...

The likes of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group signed an open letter from the Keep Android Open project in opposition to developer registration, which opens next month and will ...

Google is putting together its framework for Android developer verification, connecting dev names to even sideloaded apps. Recent additions to the Android SDK offer a little insight into how the ...

A group of privacy advocates and open-source leaders has signed an open letter urging Google to reverse its plans for mandatory developer verification, arguing the changes pose a physical threat to ...

Google is pushing development of Android 17: the second beta follows just two weeks after the first.

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Droid, etc., have called for the reversal of the mandatory developer registration policy of Google for Android.

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