The update affects multiple device categories, including phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, Android Auto and Automotive ...

Google will begin clamping down on Android apps that drain a smartphone battery. The Play Store will begin showing warnings ...

Starting in March, Play Store app listings will show warnings for high background battery drain, and may even have limited ...

Developers will need official ID, registration fee and more to curb fraud and malware as rollout begins in Brazil, Indonesia, ...

Good news, Android users. Google is going to step in and help you find the perpetrators. Google just announced the launch of ...

Android Studio, the official dedicated development environment for Android apps, received updates to its AI agent ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. First of all, it might surprise you to hear that Google is releasing Android 16 DP1 today. After all, the first developer ...

Android developers may soon benefit from a new set of commercial rules following a likely settlement between Epic Games and ...

Epic is also easing up on Google’s mandate that developers use Play Billing. Under the proposal, Google can require that devs ...

Google has also rolled out a new Android Vitals metric that measures excessive use of wake locks. These occur when an app ...

But with the dispute largely going Epic’s way of late, the two companies have decided to reach a settlement – and it could ...

"We're not too concerned. We're not making malicious apps. It should be fine and I totally understand why they'd want to do it," said Jeff Kao, co-founder of Ecorio, a Toronto-based developer. Ecorio ...