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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 ...

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

About a month ago, Google surprised us by releasing the first Android 16 developer preview barely a month after the stable Android 15 update came out. It began a much faster development timeline than ...

Inside Google's AI plan to end Android developer toil - and speed up innovation ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

Google is changing how developers get access to new APIs and features of the latest version.

Do you like writing software for Android, perhaps even sideload the occasional APK onto your Android device? In that case some big changes are heading your way, with ...

Platform Stability expected in March ...

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 wants to make app installations outside the Play Store more difficult if developers do not register. An open letter ...