In response, Google’s VP and GM of Android Platform, Seang Chau, refuted these claims. He addressed the speculation in a post on X, stating that “AOSP is NOT going away.” ...

As many of you know, Google started rolling out Android 16 earlier this week. With that launch, Google made a move that fired up speculations AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is going away. Well ...

In a further note to developers, Google said that “aosp-main” will be locked and set to read-only, with developers instead told to sync their changes with the “latest-release” which is ...

This does not mean that Google is making Android a closed-source platform, but rather that the open-source aspect will only be released when a new branch is released to AOSP with those changes ...

But now, with the release of Android 16, Google is making a bigger change to AOSP that will affect the development of custom ROMs for Pixels. For years, Google used its Pixel phones as reference ...

AOSP is also used in devices other than mobile phones. Smartwatches that run on Wear OS and televisions powered by Android TV are built from AOSP's code.

A lot of time, we get information about future Android changes and devices from AOSP. With Google taking its development behind closed doors, we may see less of that. Personally, I’m all for that.

Android 16, the next major revamp for Google’s smartphone operating system, has already reached platform stability. And now that all the key changes and upgrades have been locked in place ...