Google’s new Android Bench ranks the top AI models for Android coding, with Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leading Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2-Codex.

Android Bench will act as a leaderboard to rank the AI models that perform the best when developing an Android app.

The first app, Shots Studio, is an AI-powered screenshot manager that is the closest alternative to Pixel Screenshots on the ...

Google has released Android Studio Panda 2, a feature drop including an AI agent that can create apps from scratch and an ...

In an open letter to Google and the Android developer community, Keep Android Open argues that the new policy threatens ...

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Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Google has officially launched the first beta of Android 17, following the announcement made a few days earlier. Google changed developers’ access to new Android releases by replacing the traditional ...

Given the continuous Android Canary channel, the next major version of Google’s mobile OS is debuting as a Beta release. Android 17 Beta 1 is rolling out today to Pixel devices. Android Canary was ...

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Update, February 13, 2026 (02:39 PM ET): We’re a couple days behind schedule now, but Google has finally confirmed the arrival of Android 17 Beta 1. Update, February 11, 2026 (02:20 PM ET): While ...