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Google Making All Android Development Private, Still Committed to Open Source

Tim March 26, 2025 1

A bit of news from the Android development front this week, with Google confirming that it's taking Android development completely private. While that might sound like a big change, if you aren't an Android developer, you're not going to notice anything. As of...

First Mention of Google Pixel 5a Showed Up Today

Kellen July 31, 2020 18

Mentioning a Google Pixel 5a at the moment seems so silly knowing that Google will announce the super-delayed Pixel 4a in a couple of days. Here we are, though, talking Pixel 5a (likely) for 2021 because Google has acknowledged its existence. First spotted at...

Hello, Google “Pixel 5” Reference

Kellen February 17, 2020

Evidence proving that Google is hard at work on a Pixel 5 hasn't surfaced to date. Sure, there is plenty of speculation along with thoughts (and supposed proof) around the idea of a Pixel 4a and Pixel 4a XL, but nothing really concerning the Pixel 5. Today, we...

Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Just Keep Showing Up in AOSP

Kellen July 19, 2018

Back in October of last year, we revealed what we believed to be three possible codenames for Google's 2018 line of Pixel phones. A trusted source of ours said that "crosshatch," "blueline," and "albacore" were all devices in testing at that time. We initially...

Hello, “Pixel 3” Mention at AOSP!

Kellen April 5, 2018 40

Pixel 3 mention, we've got a Pixel 3 mention! We don't have specs or any other details, but Googlers have officially mentioned the "Pixel 3" in an AOSP commit. The reference actually popped up in early March, it's just that no one noticed until now. What does...

Android 5.0.1 Pushed to AOSP as Build LRX22C (Updated: Factory Images Too)

Kellen December 2, 2014 207

Don't be surprised if an update to Android 5.0.1 shows up on your Nexus device in the near future. Google seems to have just pushed it to AOSP as Android 5.0.1_r1, which is also known as build LRX22C. Before updates, we would imagine that factory images will...

Sony Bringing AOSP Android 5.0 to Xperia Devices

Kyle November 6, 2014 42

Well, that did not take long. Sony, which has experimented with distributing AOSP versions of firmware for its handsets in the past, revealed it has a functional versions of Lollipop running on the the Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2 and Xperia Z3. In a blog post, the...

AOSP! AOSP! Lollipop Time!

Kellen November 3, 2014 136

This is really happening. Android 5.0 "Lollipop" is headed to AOSP. Here are all of the branches as they go live for the devs in the building: Platform build Nexus 7 (2013) LTE "deb" Nexus 7 (2013) WiFi "flo" Nexus 7 (2012) 3G "tilapia" Nexus 7 (2012) WiFi "...