Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.

This post is an introduction to Android app development for beginners. How to get setup and start your first Android project, and where to go from there!

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.

The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through other app ...

Google will now conduct all its active Android development internally, ceasing real-time code commits to the public AOSP branches. This change aims to improve efficiency by eliminating merge ...

Google will require Android app developers to verify identity for sideloading apps by 2026, boosting user safety and ...

Android Studio is a developer kit that you can use to create and troubleshoot your own Android apps. We'll go over what it is (and what it isn't).

Google plans to move all development of Android OS behind closed doors so that the process will no longer be visible to the public. This change is a big shift for Android, which has long allowed ...

Google has launched Android Basics in Kotlin, a program for beginner developers that teaches them how to build Android apps. Kotlin has become one of the fastest growing languages on GitHub, in ...