After being rocked by that Alphabet news recently – which means Google is now a subsidiary of Alphabet (who woulda thunk it?) – the mothership seems to be taking time to focus on its core products, which includes Android, Google Search, and YouTube. Today we see what seems to be an invitation for creativity with Android, as Google launches “Android Experiments”, a website that compiles open source app development projects and showcases what is cool about the mobile platform.


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Is this a reaction to the raft of bad news that the mobile OS has been getting the past few days? We’ve seen a lot of vulnerabilities being put to light, and it does put quite a bad face to Android. But here we see what is basically a counterpart to Google’s “Chrome Experiments”, which was launched in 2009. This new website is open for everyone to submit their cool app projects.

Google has some simple requirements – that all projects must be open source, they must be based on Android 4.4 KitKat or better, and they must “explore how we interact with our devices, in small and big ways.” Google says that while not all of the submissions can be featured on the website, those that are will be made available via the Google Play Store.

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The submissions will be reviewed by the Android Experiments team, and they are inviting you to take part. Check out the source link below, either to submit your own project – or look around the website at the 20 initial app projects they are featuring.

SOURCE: Android Experiments

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