As an open source project, anyone can contribute to Android and influence its direction. It means that anyone can download, build, and run the code needed to create a complete mobile device.

When Google announced the Android operating system and established the Open Handset Alliance to support it, the plan was always to release the mobile operating system as open-source code. Today ...

If you're a fan of open-source software, you'll be glad to know that there's plenty of FOSS software available for Android.

With each major release of Android, a huge code drop is made to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with everything a developer needs to build the latest version of the OS.

Want to dig through 2.3 and see what all the fuss is about for yourself? Well, you're in luck, because Gingerbread has just hit the Android Open Source Project's repository, which means you can ...

With Android 5.0 debuting on the Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, Google has pushed out the newest Android source code to the public Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository.

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May 22, 2015 - 4:48 pm If you were itching to build an open source browser for Android, you can now do it using a practically all the code from Chrome for Android.

Washington - Google on Tuesday released the open-source code which powers its Android mobile operating system and invited outside programmers to tinker with the software to develop their own features.

For an open-source project, that has far-reaching consequences — others can't create their own separate platforms using the code if they're unhappy with the direction Signal is headed.