Google confirms the launch of Android 16 in June

Google announced a change in its launch schedule last November, when it indicated that it would not follow the same rhythm as previous occasions to make available to Android 16 users in the first half of the year. This, taking into account that both Android 14 and Android 15 reached the devices in October 2023 and 2024, respectively.

In this way, the brand promised to offer a great update in the second quarter of this year, as well as to provide “most frequently” ‘software’ development kits to keep their operating system up to date. The launch, “minor, on the other hand, will arrive predictably in the fourth quarter and include new programming interfaces of applications, optimizations and error corrections of the main version.

Recently the president of the Android Ecosystem of Google, Sameer Samat, has advanced to Android Police that he hopes to launch Android 16 next June, as confirmed in a meeting that has taken place in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

“Until now, everything has gone well. We had never been to a version in which at this point the error count was the one we expected, but the team is working very hard and we are very excited to achieve it, ”said the manager on which it is his second preliminary version of his SO.

From this medium they have pointed out, therefore, that Android 16 will arrive in June, so he will not coincide with the arrival of a new family of ‘smartphones’ Pixel. Also, Android Police has suggested that Google will offer more information about the final launch of the ‘software’ in Google I/or 2025, scheduled for May 20.

It should be remembered that this launch format responds to the Trunk Stable Development, which “means that all developers working on Android contribute to the same branch of code”; A format thanks to which it is possible to overcome the SA more quickly and efficiently.