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.

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From swirling updates to confusing convergence and more than a few wacky experiments, 2026 is looking to be anything but uneventful for Google's Android platform. It’s hard to believe, but here we be ...

Android 16 QPR3 is shaping up to be a sizable release, and Beta 2 is now available for Google Pixel devices. This is a big update that “addresses a wide range of stability, performance, and usability ...

Now generally available, latest update to the Kotlin language includes a checker for unused return values and a host of other experimental features. Kotlin 2.3.0 is now generally available, with the ...

2025 has been pretty phenomenal for Android. Google’s Android 16 update is one of the biggest we’ve seen in years, and although some of the most significant changes weren’t available until Android 16 ...

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