A report from VisionMobile claims that Android is the most closed of all the open source projects on the market. All the report reveals is VisionMobile's lack of understanding of the word "open." ...

You see, there is Google Android, the project that Google builds and shares with its handset partners, then there is the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The two are not exactly the same.

When Android was struggling to get a foothold in the smartphone market, the open source nature of Android as a whole gave Google an important weapon for marketing, and appealing to networks and ...

Chainfire's biggest claim to fame is SuperSU, the root app for Android. He also has a ton of root-related apps on the Google Play Store as well as on XDA and other sources.

There are already plenty of Android tablets that you can buy for around $170, but very few have 10-inch displays. A new IndieGoGo project called Root 101 is looking to change that.

The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is the foundation of Android today, being an open-source version of the platform that’s maintained by Google. This version of Android also ships with a ...

Google is not going to close the Android Open Source Project. Neither will Google do anything to directly affect AOSP, which would risk losing a huge amount of goodwill.