This may be the most significant anti-consumer move, simply due to its profound impact. It could hit big developers or commercial apps, as well as entire ecosystems built around freely distributed ...

An Android SDK update raises questions about the impact of developer verification on users' ability to sideload apps when offline.

About a month ago, Google announced that the rules around sideloading apps -- the ability to install apps from unverified developers, bypassing Google's Play Store -- onto Android devices were set to ...

Google has shed more light on how Android's app verification rules will work, which will block sideloading apps from unverified developers.

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

If you're tired of the iPhone's restrictions or want to explore some alternatives, you might want to switch to Android.

The competition between Apple and Google over the mobile landscape has always been as much about philosophy as it has market share. Apple's iOS is restricted to the devices it builds, and ...

The takeaway: App sideloading has been a contentious issue since the dawn of mobile computing. Google is now taking a hardline approach, citing alleged security concerns, but a major app platform is ...

I am so gutted that WinPhone died as it would be needed competition, also it was a better OS than both the alternatives. Apple and Google is a terrible duopoly tbh. Apple are a controlling walled ...

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Amazon’s replacement of Android on the Fire TV platform is underway and, well, customers aren’t very happy about it.

AT&T is reportedly doing the right thing by allowing Android phone users to install apps from outside the Android Market. Starting today, an update will enable non-Market app installation — also known ...