We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid is the app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store, explore the world of free and open source (FOSS) apps and [learn](https://f-droid.org/about/) about our app distribution tools.
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Play for On-device AI (beta) | Other Play guides | Android Developers
Play for On-device AI enables developers to efficiently distribute custom machine learning models via Android App Bundles and Google Play, offering various delivery modes and device targeting capabilities to optimize deployment on Android devices.
Android developer verification | Android Developers
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Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
A new era for choice and openness
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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A BlueSky thread by GrapheneOS on Skyview
We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps. uattest.net
Apps using UnifiedPush
This is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush. Android Name Description Date Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 v0.26.1 FluffyChat Wiki² Fedilab Mastodon/Fediverse March 2021 v2.39.0 Fedilab FAQ Tox Push Message App Tox chat May 2021 v1.0.3 SchildiChat Matrix chat September 2021 v1.2.0.sc42 FMD Find your device November 2021 v0.2.2 FMD docs Element Matrix chat June 2022 v1.4.26 Tusky Mastodon/Fediverse July 2022 v19.0 Neon Nextcloud July 2022 Unreleased Jami Jami March 2023 v361 Goguma IRC client March 2023 v0.5.0 Circles Social Network (matrix) June 2023 v1.0.11 Databag Messaging Service July 2023 v1.5.0 Podverse (beta) Podcast Manager July 2023 v4.13.1 Moshidon Mastodon August 2023 v2.0.3+fork.98 Träwelldroid Traewelling client September 2023 v2.0.0 Pachli Mastodon September 2023 v1.0.0 Molly Signal client October 2023 v6.35.3-1.up1 Molly Readme, MollySocket Amethyst Nostr client October 2023 v0.80.1 Ltt.rs Mail (JMAP) client December 2023 0.4.0 Mercurygram Telegram client December 2023 v10.3.2.1 Element-X Matrix chat January 2024 v0.4.2 SchildiChat Next Matrix chat January 2024 v0.4.2.sc1 Nagram Telegram client April 2024 10.9.1.1165 DAVx⁵ CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV September 2024 v4.4.2-ose Nextcloud extension for WebDAV-Push < polycule > Matrix chat September 2024 v0.0.1 Momogram Telegram client December 2024 v11.4.2-1 FOSS Warn Emergency alerts December 2024 1.0.0 alpha0 FOSS Warn Wiki Wafrn App Social Network (Fediverse + Bluesky) May 2025 v1.3.0 Forkgram Telegram client June 2025 11.9.2.0 Fennec Web Browser³ July 2025 141.0.0 IronFox Web Browser³ July 2025 140.0.4 Compete Create & join all kind of challenges July 2025 v1.0.0 Interstellar Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed September 2025 v0.10.0 Push Notifications ¹ App-specific documentation should not be needed. Compatible apps should just work after installing a UnifiedPush distributor.
Tim Sweeney on Twitter / X
Google is opening up Android all the way with robust support for competing stores, competing payments, and a better deal for all developers. So, we've settled all of our disputes worldwide. THANKS GOOGLE! https://t.co/Dq6eXNnZd0— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) March 4, 2026
Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung’s help
Google’s own version of DeX.
Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices
Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...
Google's Project Ara: Reinventing the smartphone with building blocks
Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable
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Building peer-to-peer apps | Apple Developer Documentation
Communicate with nearby devices over a secure, high-throughput, low-latency connection by using Wi-Fi Aware.
weirdly ATProto also bridges mobile OS wars so well you wanna make the next Instagram in Swift on iOS and have it be insanely beautifully built by iOS experts à la Flighty? Ok, do it. Since the data is owned by the user, Android devs can build an incredible Android experience off the same data.
