Android 16 Developer Preview
An early look at the next version of Android, for testing, development, and feedback. Try it out with your apps and let us know what you think!
Android 15 continues our mission of building a private and secure platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce beautiful apps, superior media and camera experiences, and an intuitive user experience, particularly on tablets and foldables.
Build richer camera and media experiences with Ultra HDR, more camera extensions, and lossless USB audio. Simplify sign-in using Credential Manager, and provide health and fitness insights securely using Health Connect. Make your app more expressive and personal with predictive back, per-app languages, grammatical inflection, and more. Deliver engaging, differentiated experiences on large screens.
Older releases
Android 13
Build for user privacy with photo picker and notification permission. Improve productivity with themed app icons, per-app languages, and clipboard preview. Build for modern standards like Bluetooth LE Audio and MIDI 2.0 over USB. Deliver a better experience on tablets and large screens.
Android 12
A new system UI with Material You that's expressive, dynamic, and personal. Extend your apps with redesigned widgets, AppSearch, Game Mode, and new codecs. Support new protections like privacy dashboard and approximate location. Improve productivity with rich content insertion, easier blurs, improved native debugging, and much more.
Android 11
People-centric and expressive, with a new controls space and more privacy features. Extend your apps with conversation notifications and bubbles, try one-time permissions, surface devices and media in the controls. Work faster with tools like compatibility toggles, ADB incremental installs, and more.
Android 10
Build app experiences with dark theme and gesture navigation. Support new protections for user privacy and security. Extend your apps with high-performance codecs, better biometrics, faster app starts, Vulkan 1.1, NNAPI 1.2, foldables, 5G, and more.
Android 9 Pie
Android 9 harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to give you more from your phone. Now it's smarter, faster and adapts as you use it.
Android 8 Oreo
Smarter, faster, and more powerful than ever. The world's favorite cookie is your new favorite Android release.
Android 7 Nougat
Android 7.0 brings new features for performance, productivity, and security. Test your apps with new system behaviors to save power and memory. Take advantage of multi-window UI, direct reply notifications and more.
Android 6 Marshmallow
Get your apps ready for Android 6.0 Marshmallow! Explore what's new — runtime permissions, Doze and App Standby power-saving features, new assist technology, and more.
Android 5 Lollipop
Packed with new features for users and thousands of new APIs for developers. It extends Android even further, from phones, tablets, and wearables, to TVs and cars.
Android 4.4 KitKat
Android KitKat brings all of Android's most innovative, most beautiful, and most useful features to more devices everywhere.