The Chrome OS has a Developer Mode that gives you root access to the operating system of your Chromebook. To enable Developer Mode, restart your laptop pressing the Esc, Refresh, and Power keys, then ...

Google has released the first Wear OS 6 Developer Preview, allowing developers to test apps with its new theming system and UI changes. This update, based on Android 16, introduces a Material 3 ...

Wear OS 5 will bring the long-awaited grid-based app launcher to the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2. Many Wear OS smartwatches already offer a grid view for their app launcher, but this feature isn’t ...

Mainstream customers need not apply, but programmers who like the openness of Mozilla's browser-based Firefox OS will soon get a chance to help make it a reality. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Google is introducing a new version of its smartwatch operating system, Wear OS 5, into developer preview. This latest release, one of many announcements from the Google I/O 2024 developer conference, ...

Google is bringing Android P to the wearable market. The company has announced the first developer preview of Android P for Wear OS, which adds a number of new features — including a dark theme, ...

Google is launching ChromeOS.dev as a single hub both for developers of apps for Chrome OS and for developers who use Chromebooks. Chrome OS is, at least in my opinion, the most shockingly adaptable ...

Apple has seeded a new beta build, dubbed Developer Preview 3, of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, the next major update to the company's flagship operating system, enabling the Reading List feature and adding a ...

Firefox OS is pretty much dead at this point, but when Mozilla first unveiled plans for the operating system (initially known as Boot to Gecko), the plan was to provide an open alternative to Android ...

During his keynote address opening Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs put to rest any uncertainty developers had about the status of Mac OS 9 — the ...

Cross-platform software is the norm today. In many cases, developers don't have to consider what operating system their apps will be deployed on, because apps tend to be more or less platform-agnostic ...