To settle its lawsuit with Epic, Google will make alternative app stores easier to use in Android 17. Here's what that might ...

With Android 17, Google wants to allow alternative app stores alongside the Play Store. A mockup shows how easy the ...

Google says that it’s softening its plan to require every Android developer — even outside of the Play Store — to verify ...

The new Windows Subsystem for Android is designed to let you run Android apps on Windows 11 computers. The official way to get apps is through the Microsoft Store and/or Amazon Appstore. Unofficially ...

I'm all for having a phone without any Google apps baked in, but a phone that has its bootloader locked and requires remote administration from any entity for me to sideload any app is a big pass.

Amazon’s Fire and Fire HD tablets ship with a fork of Google’s Android operating system called Fire OS. For the most part that means they have a custom user interface that’s designed to highlight ...

Google tests the Web Install API to let users install web apps directly from any site in Chrome, Edge, and future browsers with full control.