Yesterday (2025-11-11), the most recent major quarterly release of Android (Android 16 QPR1) was pushed to the Android Open Source Project after being delayed since 2025-09-03. We've completed our initial port of all our changes to it and are building an experimental release now.
@GrapheneOS Great news! Any chance that Pixel 10 models are included in the experimental build?
@lattera No, we still need to complete our massive overhaul of our adevtool project for automated device support. We were able to get the Pixel 10 booting with hacked together support for it without Android 16 QPR1 but now we can do it properly. It will likely be a couple days before our Android 16 QPR1 port is fully ready since we didn't have early access to it. It will then likely be at least several more days before we can launch experimental Pixel 10 support based on our new 16 QPR1 branch.
@lattera It could take longer if things go wrong. Things often go wrong. Our focus is porting to Android 16 QPR1 as quickly as possible and getting it into a production quality state for existing users. Once we accomplish that, we can shift focus to Pixel 10 support. We also still need to deal with the ongoing significant workload for the new security preview releases. We haven't been able to get much work done on major new features for a while because of all this stuff going on.
@GrapheneOS @lattera This sounds like a lot of work! What's the best way for people with Android dev experience to help out? Edit: wait, is that even allowed with the high security nature of the project?