Android 16 会在今年第二季正式推出,时间会较过往不同,会提前至年中藉以配合厂商推出新机的周期。
Google 在11月时已为 Android 16 推出了 Developer Preview 版本,而公众可参与的 Beta 版本估计很快就会推出。
在 Android Gerrit 上,就有 Google 员工于 Comment 中透露了一些 Android 16 Beta 的日子,他提到 1月22日为 Beta 2 改动提交的最后 due date,而 2月19日为 Beta 3 改动提交的最后 due date,当中更明确提到 Android 16 Beta 3 会于 3 月12日推出。
Ideally yes, this should be a standard feature flag and go over the same soak time. However, we may want to have this flag enabled asap in a Beta to get early validations. Beta 2 is going to be challenging considering that changes are due for Jan 22 which won’t give us enough time to do QA on it except if we make it part of this week prebuilt. Beta 3 changes due are Feb 19, but Beta 3 will only be released on March 12, almost at the same time of our bug fix cutoff. If these changes are fully ready / validated on our side and can be merged today, we can try including in Beta 2 (and in this case we should keep it under a bugfix flag). If we need more time, then Beta 3 is the only option and I would recommend switching to a standard flag.
从两个 due date 日子去推算估计,Beta 2 好有机会在 2月中旬推出,那么第一个 Beta 版本应该不会太遥远,很快就推出呢。