Android operating systems in 2025 are what individual phone brands make of them. Android 16 is publicly available as part of the Android Open Source Project, but it’s barebones, and brands like Google ...

For the past couple of months, I’ve been using a prerelease smartphone operating system that represents a significant design overhaul, with a greater focus on transparency and new visual elements that ...

Zooming out, it’s amusing that Apple and Google both chose 2025 to overhaul the design language of their operating ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Good interface design — the kind that’s simultaneously intuitive, beautiful, responsive, and powerful — is just so deceptively tricky to get right. Sure, it’s easy to complain about all the things we ...