Google’s Chrome OS Camera app is now open source
Many aspects of Google Chrome and Chrome OS are available open source directly from Google under the Chromium projects. However,…
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Andy Rubin gets the Danger Band back together for Android hardware
Over at Fortune, I profiled the the two new guys presenting at Google I/O on Android yesterday. It turns out…
Google wants an open source silicon community for chip design
As evidenced by Android and Chromium, Google has long been committed to open source software. The company now wants to…
Samsung Open Sources Galaxy Tab 2 ICS software
Samsung announced some less-important news last night, compared to the announcements made earlier yesterday. However, this might be exciting for the…
Earn up to $1500 porting Android to the HP TouchPad
Did you land your hands on the HP TouchPad this weekend, and not satisfied with WebOS? We understand the WebOS…
HP open sourcing webOS, planning new tablets for 2013
As you can see from the internal email sent to HP employees by CEO Meg Whitman below (via TechCrunch), webOS…
Controversial Adblock Plus just launched its own mobile browser for Android
“Adblockers,” browser tools which work to hide ads from the web browsing experience, are a controversial topic of discussion among…
Chrome for Android goes almost ‘entirely open source’
Launched in September 2008, Google’s Chrome browser is now dominant in its share of the desktop web browser market, with…
Google releases Games In Motion, a game to inspire developers with the potential of Android Wear
Google has today released an open source exercise “game sample” to GitHub which utilizes a handful of Android technologies to demonstrate to…
PieMessage open-source project brings Apple’s iMessage to Android using your Mac as a server
A new open source project called PieMessage enables cross-platform iMessage support, allowing Android users to communicate using Apple’s iPhone messaging…
Google’s ‘AndroidX’ developer support libraries are now open-source
As part of the Android Jetpack announcement at I/O in May, Google unveiled a redesign for the Android Support Library,…
You can now more easily create Actions for Google Assistant w/ Java & Kotlin
As both Google Home and Google Assistant devices become more ubiquitous in our lives, making new Actions for the Assistant…
Google founds Open Usage Commons to manage trademarks for open source projects
Google has announced the creation of Open Usage Commons, an organization aimed to help open source projects manage and enforce…
Twitter Kit and Digits for Android go open source
With a swarm of developers from around the world converging on San Francisco’s Moscone Center tomorrow for Google I/O, Twitter…
Google Chrome’s reading mode is making another appearance in mobile browser
While other competing browsers have long had special modes that strip all extraneous content from the pages of articles so…
Chromium contributors developing a ‘Sidebar API,’ could be used to resurrect Side Tabs feature
Longtime users of Google Chrome may remember a period when it was possible to display tabs vertically, in a bar on the…
Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra talks Apple copycat ‘melodrama,’ Android, U.S. expansion plans [Video]
As smartphones grow in popularity in emerging markets, Hugo Barra has very publicly spoken for Xiaomi, the Chinese-based technology company that…
Google increases commitment to defending open-source software projects from patent trolls
Google’s Open Source Blog advises that Google has moved from an associate to a full board member of the Open Invention Network,…
Microsoft’s Android emulator coming soon to Mac as it open-sources Visual Studio Code
During Microsoft’s Connect 2015 event today live from New York, the company announced it is open-sourcing its Visual Studio Code…
Google is now a Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation
Open source is a very important principle at Google, considering how many of its projects are developed that way. Google is…
Google launches website to give its open source projects a new home
Google has today launched a new website to showcase the many open source projects that it is working on —…
Android Experiments is a gallery of apps that make the best of Android
Yesterday we wrote about three new Android apps to come out of Google’s Creative Lab, which at the time we had…
Samsung-backed Tizen OS running Android apps thanks to OpenMobile, spotted on Galaxy S II [Video]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cxY9q_4mmIY#!] In the video above, you are seeing the Tizen operating system. It is an open source project backed by…
Google’s Android and iOS app crash analysis tool Firebase Crashlytics is now open source
For years now, long before it became a part of Google’s Firebase, Crashlytics has offered Android and iOS developers a…