While Google has moved to cure the much-maligned Android fragmentation problem, there are more Android devices than ever out there in the wild, according to data from OpenSignal. The problem? Too many ...

Android is growing at a phenomenal rate thanks in part to the many hardware options available to phone shoppers. Now Android is at an inflection point, with both phones and tablets on the market. With ...

Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up fragmented into multiple versions, Symbian's research chief has claimed. "The reason the code will change is that people will have different ...

In the case of Google's Android and Amazon's Android, where apps developed for either platform are generally cross-compatible, Google probably isn't all that concerned. Google is probably trying to ...

Google’s Android operating system has long been portrayed as the “open” alternative to Apple iOS and most other mobile operating systems. While Google typically works on new versions of Android behind ...

One of the controversial comments Steve Jobs made (does the man really make too many other kinds of comments?) during Apple’s last financials call about Android excoriated the platform and its ...

Fragmentation has been an albatross around the figurative neck of Android for years now. Although the increasing popularity of certain Nexus devices has helped to some extent, the problem remains a ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

This is smart, and long overdue. Google said today that it will begin releasing an Android Platform Development Kit (PDK). This will give Android device makers access to coming versions of Android 2-3 ...