Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 to speed up feature rollouts in devices. This is a major change in the Android rollout schedule as, over the past few years, Google released its first Android developer beta around Q2, with a ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. First of all, it might surprise you to hear that Google is releasing Android 16 DP1 today. After all, the first developer preview of Android 15 launched in February 2024.

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Just like Android proper, you can unlock Android Auto developer settings on your car. But do you need to? Here's what you should know.

Since rolling out the first version of Android in 2008, Google has largely stuck to one major release per year. Android 16 changes things, moving from one monolithic release to two. Today’s OS update is the second part of the Android 16 era,

What is the Android 16 Developer Preview? Google tests its major Android releases in stages. We're currently in the developer preview phase of Android 16's testing, which means that builds available today are meant for developers to get an early start ...

Expect there to be at least one application incorporating location-based services in the upcoming Android phone. In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round of ...

"We're not too concerned. We're not making malicious apps. It should be fine and I totally understand why they'd want to do it," said Jeff Kao, co-founder of Ecorio, a Toronto-based developer. Ecorio was one of the winner's in Google's developer's ...

Just a couple of weeks ahead of Google I/O 2021, the company has just redesigned its Android developer website, giving it a fresh coat of paint with new page layouts, colors, and more. The revamped design of Android’s developer website takes a lot of ...