Google I/O is on May 20, but the annual developer conference will be so jam-packed with announcements that Google is opening the valve to release some news early. Today, during a virtual event dubbed The Android Show, the company showed off several features coming to the Android 16, starting with a fresh redesign. Here's everything new coming to Google's mobile operating system. Some of these features will arrive first on Pixel phones later this summer'presumably Google's Pixel 10 series'but most will be a part of the big annual Android update, which is expected to arrive earlier than usual this year, in June. The last major redesign was four years ago when Material 3 debuted. That said, Google says this isn't 'Material 4," and Material 3 Expressive isn't a new version of the system. Expressive is the 'most researched update," through 46 studies with more than 18,000 participants. Google claims the expressive language sprinkled throughout the operating system is preferred by people...
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