We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Android 16 is about to go stable, likely next month at Google I/O. We have been through several ...

Google is following last year’s Material 3 Expressive redesign on phones by introducing significantly more blur across Android 17.

The lead-up to Android 16 has been … interesting. We’re four betas into the update’s rollout, and with each new beta version released, the public-facing changes are both minor and few and far between.

Android operating systems in 2025 are what individual phone brands make of them. Android 16 is publicly available as part of the Android Open Source Project, but it’s barebones, and brands like Google ...