Earlier this week, we called on our Pixel-owning readers to share their thoughts on the newly released Android 17 update.

Finally, my open-source and non-Play Store apps auto-update.

F-Droid is adding support for Android 15’s app archiving feature, making it the first third-party app store to support the new capability. App archiving is a feature that lets you reclaim storage ...

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