The F-word is here to haunt Google again since a survey published by Fortune stated that 56 percent of Android developers found that the Android fragmentation was a meaningful but huge problem. Baird ...

In the case of Google's Android and Amazon's Android, where apps developed for either platform are generally cross-compatible, Google probably isn't all that concerned. Google is probably trying to ...

If you thought Android fragmentation was an issue in the past, well, that was just the beginning. Compared to last year, fragmentation on Google's mobile platform has grown 60 percent, according to a ...

Android has grown exponentially since launching in 2007, but the open source nature of the software - allowing smartphone manufacturers and even mobile networks to tweak how it looks and functions - ...

Android fragmentation is on the rise, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, according to a new report. Of the last 682,000 unique devices to download the OpenSignal cellular coverage app, the ...

Android is growing at a phenomenal rate thanks in part to the many hardware options available to phone shoppers. Now Android is at an inflection point, with both phones and tablets on the market. With ...

Android Lollipop 5.x was released ‘for general availability’ in November 2014. Why are only 1.4% of Android devices running it? iOS is doing OK with about 72% running iOS 8.x but there is still that ...

One of the controversial comments Steve Jobs made (does the man really make too many other kinds of comments?) during Apple’s last financials call about Android excoriated the platform and its ...

We speak to an industry expert to assess if Android Jelly Bean will help end the platform's fragmentation issue and if App Encrytpion will help prevent the spread of malware. Fragmentation in Android ...

Rapid growth in the Google-backed Android mobile phone OS puts the platform at risk of fragmentation, an analyst study said this week. Android shipped more than 6 million handsets last year and is ...

Editor’s Note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online ...