Free Android app store F-Droid asks users to lobby government regulators to take action. Google says the move is needed to ...

Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulators Starting next year, Google plans to require all apps ...

Alternative app store F-Droid warns Google is misleading people when it says sideloading on Android isn't going anywhere.

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

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 ...

Google's strongest security features are hidden behind a single toggle - turn it on to shield yourself from theft, scams, spam, and more.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Epic Games has opened a lawsuit over the difficulty of sideloading apps on Android, this time against both Samsung and Google over a new feature in One UI that ...

Google kicked off the rollout of Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 yesterday, but Pixel owners looking to skip the lengthy on-device OTA installation are still waiting for sideloading files to become available.

Anurag's interest in technology was sparked around 15 years ago when he first tried a Nokia smartphone, one of those Windows-powered devices. Having only used feature phones up until then, he was ...

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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 ...

Well that's revolting news. I wonder what that means for backups of apps that were available thru Play Store and pulled? For example, we use Zoneminder and zmninja phone-app to check on stuff at home ...