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- Google has let Pixel users get an early taste of new Android builds through Developer Preview and Beta releases.
- Now Google’s evolving Developer Preview into a parallel Canary track for a first look at the newest changes.
- Interested Pixel users can flash their phones to Canary, and will get future updates OTA.
Owning a Pixel smartphone or tablet has always meant getting early access to what Google’s working on next for Android, and for a certain class of users, that can be a major part of the appeal of this hardware. Those who are interested have long been able to register to participate in the company’s Android Beta for Pixel program, letting them get access to in-development builds of major new release like Android 16 months and months before they’re ready to hit stable. If you love that kind of early preview, today Google’s announcing something even better.
Instead of just having that Beta, Google now introduces a new Canary access program. The idea here is that participants will be able to preview Google’s latest work on new Android releases basically all year long, rather than just in the half-year or so cycle we have now.
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