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Google's Android 16 release schedule shakeup is all about helping its competitors


Samsung's One UI 7 disaster will hopefully never happen again.

The company is completely changing the Android development and release schedule in a way that'll benefit Google's partner OEMs — and by extension, Pixel competitors. Google says that the move is "the start of Android having more frequent API releases as part of our effort to drive faster innovation in apps and devices" in a blog post announcing the launch. That final SDK release will have feature updates, optimizations, bug fixes, and new developer APIs but won't include the behavioral changes that could cause compatibility issues for apps.

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