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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.
Digital Trends

From Android 1.0 to Android 16: How Google’s mobile OS has evolved since 2008

Google I/O 2025 will be livestreaming next week, and software developers from Google are expected to unveil Android 16, which is slated to come out before the summer. The upcoming Android software ...

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 ...
CNET

Android 15 Is Here. What You Need to Know about Google's Latest OS on Your Phone

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Google is releasing Android 15 on Tuesday.
Wired

/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...