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 ...

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 ...

Who needs the Play Store?

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 ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

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 ...

Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines across the Android world, including the latest Galaxy S25 Ultra specs, Pixel 9a design leaks, the very thin Honor Magic V3, when to consider the ...

Unlike Apple, Google has always made it relatively easy for users to install Android apps from sources other than the company’s official app store. But recently the company announced that it will ...

F-Droid has announced an update to its service that introduces faster server hardware, which should speed up tasks like building Android apps. F-Droid has announced a new upgrade to its service, ...

You may have seen recently that Google has issued a new decree requiring all Android developers, even if they don’t publish their apps on the Play Store, to register centrally with Google. This ...