Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

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Almost every Android smartphone and tablet on the market uses the same core: the Android Open Source Project, or AOSP for short. Since Google develops this core under the Apache 2.0 license, any developer is free to use, modify, and... Read the article: AOSP: Google changes release cycle

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Google modifies the publication of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code. By 2026, the AOSP code will only be published in the 2nd and 4th quarters. AOSP is licensed under Apache 2.0. Google published the AOSP code 4 times a year.Google is justified to have a quality code and the stability of the platform. Google advises to use android-latest-release and not aops-main. This guarantees to be truly on the latest version of the code available…

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Google has just reviewed its publication strategy for Android's open source core, a decision that will change the calendar of an entire ecosystem without directly affecting end-users.

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This may be the coup de grace for the "free" Android as we knew it. Google has discreetly dynamited the publication calendar of its source code, leaving the community of independent developers totally on the tile.

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Google makes further changes to the release cycle of Android: The source code will only be published twice a year in the AOSP in the future.

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Google has fundamentally changed the development of Android and the provision of new updates last year and it continues to do so in 2026. Now the company announces that it will only publish the source code in the Android Open Source Project twice instead of four times a year. The deployment is limited to the updates Q2 and Q4. The conversion serves to better align the "Trunk Stable" development model of Android. The major goal with these adjustm…