To help us all better understand Android, Google has made it possible to browse and search through Android Open Source Project code.

In a statement posted to an Android developer mailing list, Google software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru announced that the Android 4.0 source code is being rolled out to the public Android Open ...

When Google announced the Android operating system and established the Open Handset Alliance to support it, the plan was always to release the mobile operating system as open-source code. Today ...

Less open source code means more work for Google's competitors. While you can't kill an open source app, you can turn it into abandonware by moving all continuing development to a closed source model.

The company behind MIPS has released the source code for porting the Android operating system to that processor architecture.

Less than a year after announcing Android, the open-source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google began sharing the project's underlying source code.

Again, it's important to note that due to the open source nature of both AOSP and Android x86, there's nothing illegal about copying the code wholesale, or even charging money for it.

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

Open source software is generally seen and accepted as trustworthy because the code is made public and available for anyone to look through.