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 ...

Google said that it is launching a new Android-based XR platform on Thursday to accommodate AI features. The company said the platform, called Android XR, will support app development on different ...

That little tease of Project Astra yesterday has brought us to a full announcement today for Google’s next platform, Android XR. The new platform is official as the extended reality space from Google ...

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 ...

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Google has published its latest breakdown of how many devices are running which versions of Android. Android 16 has yet to even appear on the radar, and Android 15 has only hit a 4.5% share. Android ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines across the ...

Today, Android 16 reaches platform stability, as Google releases the third beta. Google has one more beta scheduled for next month, with the final release coming after that. We expect Android 16 to be ...

They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic ...