As anticipated, Google is now releasing the third beta of Android 16. With it comes the Platform Stability milestone, and after this there ought to solely be one extra beta launch, meant to repair bugs and resolve any excellent points. That one will arrive in April, in accordance with Google’s timeline which you’ll be able to see under.
The ultimate launch of Android 16 is scheduled to land on Google’s supported Pixels within the second quarter of the yr, so by the top of June. Then, a minor Android launch will arrive within the fourth quarter – between October and December. That is the primary time in a few years that Google has modified the best way it releases new Android variations.
Android 16 Beta 3 comes with Auracast broadcast audio help for appropriate LE Audio listening to aids and description textual content for customers with low imaginative and prescient (which replaces excessive distinction textual content). This attracts a bigger contrasting space round textual content to “enormously enhance legibility”.
There’s additionally incipient help for Native Community Safety, a characteristic which is “deliberate for a future Android main launch” and provides you with extra management over which apps can entry units in your native community. That is presently solely an opt-in characteristic for app builders.
Google says it is “placing extra power” into working with its machine companions to convey Android 16 “to as many units as potential”.
