Android 16 will actually debut earlier than any of its previous versions this year. Google still insists that the latest version will launch sometime in June. Sameer Samat, President of the Android Ecosystem at Google, confirmed this during an interview with Android Police at MWC 2025.
According to Samat, “Everything is progressing well. I’ve never experienced a release where the bug count was at this level at this stage, but our team is putting in tremendous effort, and we’re thrilled about reaching our goals.”
New Android is set for a June debut as per the Mountain View behemoth, with the second beta phase of the OS now underway. It usually marches on to the public in the later months of the year, usually coinciding with the release of a new flagship Pixel device, but Google’s plan was redirected this time around for developmental reasons.
This change in the schedule of releases this year has come about through a change in the internal process of development for the Android team. Google has adopted a Trunk Stable development model for the next Android version.
Samat explained, “Trunk Stable development means that everyone working on Android is contributing to the same branch of code. We can build the entire system more regularly and more often.”
He mentioned, “That’s opposed to all working on different branches, and then we merge them all at the end.”
He further added that one of the reasons for the schedule is that they are willing to do the merge in June so it would take them from June to the rest of the year so that they could fix the issues.
Google’s timely embrace of an approach of frequent and regular updating for Android in recent years has, however, laid particular emphasis on the number of releases by the operating system with respect to its importance to Google.
