The source code for Android 16 is now available, but OEMs like Samsung and Xiaomi have already had early access. Here's what that means.

Regardless, it’s been a few months since Android 14 QPR3’s release, so some code and, more importantly, the default Android 15 build flags and Android feature flags aren’t present in AOSP yet.

He goes on to note that in Android 13 there are 1.5 million total lines of Rust code, representing about 21% of all new code. To date, Google has seen not a single memory safety vulnerability in ...