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Android 16 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.

Get started Test your app

Get started with Android 16

  1. Set up a runtime environment see Get Android 16 to flash a Google Pixel device or set up an emulator.
  2. Set up Android Studio try the Android 16 SDK and tools. See the SDK setup page for steps.
  3. Learn about what's new review the behavior changes for all apps and the behavior changes for apps targeting Android 16 that might've affected your app.
  4. Test your app run through all flows to look for issues. Toggle behavior changes at runtime to isolate issues.
  5. Update your app target Android 16 if possible, and test with users using beta channels or other groups.

Tools and resources

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Toggle top behavior changes and debug with integrated loggingno need to change targeting.
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Follow this checklist of steps to get your apps ready for Android 16.
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Your feedback and issue reports are critical information for the Android team! Use our main issue tracker to let us know.
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Last updated 2025-09-17 UTC.

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