Open source apps are usually leaner and more efficient. Without ads, constant tracking pings, or unnecessary permissions, ...

Less than a year after announcing Android, the open-source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google began sharing the project's underlying source code.

Its unique interface is divided into five distinct sections: the primary home screen, briefing, notes, widget area, and app ...

Droid-ify is a third-party client built specifically for browsing and managing the F-Droid catalog, and it makes discovery ...

The leader of the Android Open Source Project quits as he raises questions about the limitations of Google's open-source phone efforts inside the proprietary world of mobile handset hardware vendors.

Google released the open source code for the Android mobile operating system, just before the first Android-based smart phone hits stores.