Google just launched Android 17 or Cinnamon Bun on 16 Jun. AOSP was also released.
Google updated the icons
Google update the icons of the apps on Android. The old icons uses the same colors but in different shapes. At a glance, it was so difficult to tell them apart.
Android 16 QPR1
Android 16 QPR1 in the flavour of crDroid 12.5, was released on 28 Dec for Poco X3 (surya)
Android 16 QPR1 has been released to AOSP
Android 16 QPR1 has been released to AOSP, I suppose better late than never. Now to wait for the custom ROM developers to merge this. Especially for crDroid. 🙂 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/+/refs/tags/android-16.0.0_r3
crDroid 12.1 for Android 16
I have been running crDroid 30 Sep version, Android 16 for nearly a month. These are my observations
Upgrading from Android 15 to 16
Upgrading from Android 15 to 16 with a side trip to 14. I wanted to do a quick verification test, using PixelOS 14 to verify the operations of 5ber app and the SIM. It didn’t go well.
Downgrading my Android phone
Downgrading my Android phone custom rom. I installed it with PixelOS 18 Feb 25 build. All was good. In June, I upgraded to the last build for Android 15, 10 Apr 25. After some days, I noticed that I keep…
Android 16 is launched
Android 16 or “Baklava” was launched today. (10 Jun 2025)
Android 15 was launched
Android 15 was released on 15 Oct 24, code-named Vanilla Ice Cream is currently rolling out to Pixel devices. For the first time, the devices are lagging the software release.
How to make your old Android, new
I was reading an article on how to make an old Android phone, new. What strikes me how far off they are. The article covered mainly wallpaper, fonts and launcher. So here is my take.