Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. For years, Samsung lagged behind Google when it came to update speed. While Pixels typically received new versions of Android at ...

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 ...

Samsung has confirmed that it has shifted to a trunk-based development model for One UI. The model enables the developers to make real-time changes in the mainstream codebase. And therefore, the ...

Google has used dessert-themed code names for Android since the release of Android 1.5, named "Cupcake," back in 2009. Each version since then has followed an alphabetical order. For instance, Android ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Thanks to reporting on Android Authority by Mishaal Rahman, we've known that Wear OS 5.1 would be based on Android 15 since ...

Samsung’s rollout of One UI 8, based on Android 16, was unusually fast, and not just because the company pulled out all the stops to avoid a drip-fed rollout like One UI 7’s. For the first time, ...