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Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps
- https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
Google to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developer identity
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-requirements-3590911/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016036
F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
Following Google's pulling back of the Android source tree, alternative Android operating systems are either changing tact, shutting down, and undergoing a reformation
- https://rumble.com/v6x696k-calyx-says-time-out-musings-about-android-custom-roms.html
- https://lunduke.locals.com/post/7172970/noooooooooooooooooo-following-googles-pulling-back-of-the-android-source-tree-alternative-andr
- https://iode.tech
- Related: https://github.com/howinfo/howinfo/wiki/FOSS-Songs#t2-linux-progress
Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary
- https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44681858
Running PostmarketOS on Android Termux proot without a custom ROM (2024)
- https://ivonblog.com/en-us/posts/postmarketos-in-termux-proot/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44656624
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/07/transition-to-16-kb-page-sizes-android-apps-games-android-studio.html
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44529150
Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
- https://jacobin.com/2025/07/google-android-smartphones-open-source/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586244
FMD Android: secure open source alternative to Google's Find My Device
WASM the Hard Way: Porting the Chicory Compiler to Android
- https://blog.evacchi.dev/posts/2025/07/11/wasm-the-hard-way-porting-the-chicory-compiler-to-android/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535970
Google nerfs Pixel 6a batteries following fire hazard
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/a-mess-of-its-own-making-google-nerfs-second-pixel-phone-battery-this-year/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535604
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a blow to custom ROM developers
- https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256604
Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device
- https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/android-open-source-project-pixel-change/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259921
AOSP project is coming to an end
- https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1l8rhon/aosp_project_is_coming_to_an_end/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254540
Reviving Astoria – Windows's Lost Android
Show HN: MBCompass – Android Compass App
Google shows off Android XR smart glasses with in-lens display
- https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/20/google-android-xr-smart-glasses/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050178
Material 3 Expressive
- https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975352
Google's Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to Android
- https://www.wired.com/story/google-advanced-protection-vulnerable-users-lockdown-android-16/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000754
Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign
- https://blog.google/products/android/material-3-expressive-android-wearos-launch/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976574
Google restores Nextcloud users file access on Android
- Google restores Nextcloud users file access on Android
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981170
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970959
Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/
Ask HN: Which X11 server do you use on Android?
Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps...we ran Doom
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892502
Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
- https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel-4as-old-firmware-is-gone-trapping-users-on-the-buggy-battery-update
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865619
Multiplatform
Discontinued
- Syncthing Android App Discontinued
- Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued
- iA Writer: Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
Maps
Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-app-3489887/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41816756
Google Play Protect now asks for PIN in order to sideload some Android apps
- https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1845849938191667407
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845588