The fan community has always been active when it comes to making ROM hacks. That means making changes in the original game ...

A new European initiative called UnifiedAttestation aims to build an open-source alternative to Google’s Play Integrity checks. Many banking, financial, and government apps use Play Integrity checks ...

Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an ...

Rewind almost 15 years, and the Android ROM scene was thriving. Nightly builds, tons of projects, we truly were living in a golden age. Nowadays, things have changed significantly. Just what happened ...

Custom ROMs have been a savior for Android users who want to push the lifespan of their phones beyond official support. Google just made that path much more difficult, especially if you own a Pixel ...

There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been caught by ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

Google is not discontinuing the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it has made big changes that affect how Android source code is shared, especially for those who build custom ROMs of Android.

Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android. The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and ...

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 ...