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Android 2025 scorecard: Major changes and challenges leading to an exciting future for the OS

With plenty of new features and a brand-new rollout strategy, Google changed quite a lot of things around Android in 2025.
Android Authority

Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why

Google has confirmed to Android Authority that development of the Android operating system will soon fully happen in private. Currently, Google shares some of the work it does on the public AOSP ...
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One OS to Rule Them All – Google’s Grand Android Plan

The unification of Android and Chrome OS has been rumored for a while now. A report surfaced back in November last year, saying that it will happen. It was just a rumor back then, though. Earlier this ...

e/OS/, Shiftphone8, And The Quest For Privacy-Focused Smartphones

Google is not Android, and Android is not Google. Step forward, Murena, which leverages the open-source Android project to ...
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To succeed, desktop Android needs Gemini to build a next-gen OS

It appears that turning Android into a desktop operating system is Google’s next big consumer initiative. To put it bluntly, I think this effort fails if all they’re doing is making a one-to-one ...

Android XR may not have to worry about pressure from Meta and Horizon OS, after all

Last year, Meta introduced Horizon OS, its new branding for Meta Quest OS. The plan was to license Horizon OS to hardware ...
CNET

The Android Show Live Blog: Android 16's New Design, Gemini on TV and Wear OS 6

Android 16 will arrive this summer with a new expressive look, Gemini's arriving to even more devices like TVs along with cars and Wear OS 6 will be bumping up the battery life on smartwatches. The ...

Android Attacks—Google Confirms No Fix For 30% Of All Phones

More than 30% of Android phones still run Android 12 or older. That’s bad enough. But OEMs take time to deploy these fixes, ...