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 ...

Under the most disappointing of circumstances, the widely admired Pixel Experience ROM is shutting down. It’s opting out of the Android custom ROM scene leaving users in search of alternatives. The ...

Custom Android ROMs aren’t nearly as common as they once were, but many were still useful for getting additional functionality or changing up the experience on the device. “Pixel Experience,” a custom ...

Features that were ahead of Google's vision ...

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.

Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android. The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and ...

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 ...

Custom ROMs have been a savior for Android users who want to push the lifespan of their phones beyond official support. Google just made that path much more difficult, especially if you own a Pixel ...

A new European initiative called UnifiedAttestation aims to build an open-source alternative to Google’s Play Integrity checks. Many banking, financial, and government apps use Play Integrity checks ...

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 ...