Essentially the anti-Play Store, F-Droid is a volunteer-run catalog of free and open-source apps that are built from source, ...

For years, the Android document scanner space has been dominated by a frustrating choice: either pay a recurring subscription for a quality app, or settle for free options that bombard you with ads ...

You can now access most of your Android phone's files from the Linux Terminal app, starting in Android 16 QPR2.

Google just dropped a bombshell that could kill Android's openness forever. Starting in 2026, every single Android app must be tied to a Google-verified ...

Google's upcoming requirements to verify app developers threaten to 'end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app ...

F-Droid has been around for about 15 years and is the largest source of free and open source software (FOSS) for Android.

One of Android’s defining traits has always been freedom—the ability to install apps from anywhere, not just Google Play. But that openness may be under threat. Google’s proposed developer ...

Lynx is a high-performance cross-platform UI framework open-sourced by ByteDance, designed to allow developers to write code once using familiar web technologies (HTML, CSS, Java) and achieve ...

The software ecosystem is a complex system, and this complexity is a byproduct of evolution, collaboration and innovation.

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New ...

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated ...

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3. The Applets API is on the chopping block. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a ...