The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in ...

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The Free Software Foundation's new Librephone project wants to reverse engineer the binary blobs our phones rely on.

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 ...

Despite Google's claims to the contrary, F-Droid continues to accuse the company of attempting to turn Android into a walled ecosystem of government-vetted apps. F-Droid representatives ...

F-Droid has been around for about 15 years and is the largest source of free and open source software (FOSS) for Android.

LineageOS 23 drops on Android 16 but uses QPR0; QPR1 features are missing due to delayed Google source releases. Google bundles patches into quarterly QPRs and withholds full Pixel sources, making ...

F-Droid is warning that the project could reach an end due to Google’s new requirements for all Android developers to verify their identity. The third-party app store argues that Google falsely frames ...

Apple has announced the first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android. The SDK now allows developers to build Android ...

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