We sat down with Google's Sameer Samat to talk about Android's next transitional moment, sideloading, and his favorite devices right now.

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Even Google's head of Android, Sameer Samat thinks the computer science major needs a rebrand. "It is thought of as, 'go learn how to do Java coding,'" Samat said of the major, adding that if that's ...

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Eighty-eight percent of US teens own an iPhone. That's according to a recent April 2025 survey by investment bank Piper Sandler, which also found that 25 percent of the 6,455 surveyed expect to ...

Google is releasing Android 16 far earlier than its typical schedule and, apparently, things are going well. In an interview this week, Google’s President of the Android Ecosystem, Sameer Samat, ...