F-Droid says Google's developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step.

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.

Lawnchair is an open source project built on Launcher3, the same AOSP foundation as Google's launcher. The developers' philosophy is simple. Use the Pixel Launcher's foundation, integrate its ...

Google’s new developer ID rule may tighten Android security — or end its open-source freedom. Here’s what’s at stake.

Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS. Most Fire-branded ...

Navidrome is a self-hosted music server that lets you stream your music and media across all your devices. And it does that while looking modern. The app has all the essentials like playlists, album ...

Gemini is Android's voice assistant of the future, and it's widely available on most Android phones, replacing Google Assistant.In some ways, Gemini is superior to Google Assistant — it can help you ...

Blockchain technology has made digital currency transactions increasingly accessible. However, as the number of crypto traders has gone up, so have the rates of theft and fraud related to ...

Apple is developing a new operating system, codenamed “Charismatic,” to power its upcoming smart home hub and tabletop robot. Blending tvOS and watchOS, ...

Essentially the anti-Play Store, F-Droid is a volunteer-run catalog of free and open-source apps that are built from source, stripped of ads and trackers, and cryptographically signed to guarantee ...

Confirming app verification status will be the job of a new system component called the Android Developer Verifier, which will be rolled out to devices in the next major release of Android 16. Google ...

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