Google has confirmed to Android Authority that development of the Android operating system will soon fully happen in private.; Currently, Google shares some of the work it does on the public AOSP ...

Regardless, platform developers who are interested in submitting patches to AOSP can continue to do so even once Google takes development of the Android OS fully private, though they’ll have to ...

Google plans to move all development of Android OS behind closed doors so that the process will no longer be visible to the public. This change is a big shift for Android, which has long allowed ...

Google is set to change how it develops the Android operating system, shifting all development to a private internal branch starting next week.The move, confirmed to Android Authority, marks a ...

This change to private development doesn't come out of the blue—Android feels less open today than it did in the early days. For example, Google has been moving Android features from AOSP into ...

As with all things privatized, this is good news for Google, the company that operates Android. It streamlines Android development so that the company doesn’t have to worry about managing two ...

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