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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 ...

LineageOS is one of the most popular custom ROMs around, and it's just gained a Pixel-inspired visual overhaul.

The first developer preview build of Android 15 is expected to drop soon, but the next major version of Android isn’t expected to hit stable channels until this fall. Meanwhile, device makers are just ...

Rewind almost 15 years, and the Android ROM scene was thriving. Nightly builds, tons of projects, we truly were living in a golden age. Nowadays, things have changed significantly. Just what happened ...

A custom ROM gives the Nokia N8 a second life, fixing Symbian’s flaws and making the iconic camera phone surprisingly usable again in 2026.

There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been caught by ...

The market of smartphones evolves fast, and sometimes, it's hard to keep up. While some users will be catching new phones every year, others have to keep up with their devices for two, three, or even ...

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Google is not discontinuing the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it has made big changes that affect how Android source code is shared, especially for those who build custom ROMs of Android.