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Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Galaxy Z Fold Wide teased, the final Galaxy Z Flip, Honor Magic V6 in the UK, OnePlus pushes Oppo brand, fighting for F-Droid ...

F-Droid maintains a repository of free and open source (FOSS) Android apps, and the F-Droid client for Android devices basically functions as an alternative to the default app store on most Android ...

We have been conditioned to believe that the Google Play Store is the beginning and end of the Android experience. It is the default, the ubiquitous marketplace where we trade our data for convenience ...

One of the first apps I install on a new Android device isn't from the Play Store; it's an alternative to the Play Store. F-Droid is an open-source app store packed with useful apps that often have no ...

Most Android devices (at least those that are decidedly not made by Huawei) come equipped with the Google Play Store. Sure, there are notable outliers, like Amazon Fire tablets, which are somewhat ...

F-Droid is adding support for Android 15’s app archiving feature, making it the first third-party app store to support the new capability. App archiving is a feature that lets you reclaim storage ...

Android 15 will extend the ‘app archiving’ feature to F-Droid. The popular app store is the first third-party platform to support the new capability. The Android Operating System (OS) has been ...

Google announced policy changes that place more requirements on Android developers last month, which are supposed to make the Android ecosystem a more safe and secure platform. Some say these new ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

F-Droid has challenged Google’s claim that sideloading is safe, calling it false. The conflict centers on new Android developer verification rules that require government ID and Google approval.