After years of in-house programming work, Google's mobile-phone operating system is now open-source software. Next: will it catch on as a collaborative project?

It seems this fresh Android prototype has once again stirred up interest in the open-source OS, and one of the common questions is "what smartphone… ...

The leader of the Android Open Source Project quits as he raises questions about the limitations of Google's open-source phone efforts inside the proprietary world of mobile handset hardware vendors.

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 ...

Thanks to a vibrant developer community, Android users have access to a fantastic selection of open-source apps. Whether you seek transparency, trust, or freedom from locked-down ecosystems, open ...

It is not that open-source hardware has not seen any success; wherever the hardware has gone open source, it becomes a great success story. Arduino, an open-source microcontroller board, is a poster ...

Google released the open source code for the Android mobile operating system, just before the first Android-based smart phone hits stores.

Hardware devices like smartphones and laptop computers rely on software behind the scenes to function correctly. Software is a set of codes and instructions. Without it, the hardware doesn't know ...

Most of Android's problems stem from the fact that it is an open source operating system.

Lineage (which was built out of the ashes of CyanogenMod) takes Google's open source Android repo (AOSP) and cleans it up for individual devices, making sure all the hardware works on each device ...

Not only is the OS open source and based on GNU/Linux—not Android—the hardware is open source, too. The core components have open source firmware, and there are even public hardware schematics.