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Android 16: Eligible devices, release date, and new features

Android 15 is now available, so let's take a look at what's coming next year with Android 16.

After several months of testing, Android 15 made it to stable release, and the update is now rolling out to eligible Pixel devices. Google is changing how it's assigning the codenames for Android releases, and while it's still maintaining dessert-based monikers, it effectively started over. Google usually rolls out a dev preview in Q1, and while the early builds are buggy and don't have much in the way of new features, they act as the foundation for further testing.

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