The company is pushing back the beta release dates for Android 11 about a month, pointing to the disruption caused by COVID-19.
Google I/O has been canceled due to COVID-19, but the show will still go on for the upcoming developer preview of Android 11. It’ll just be delayed to June.
“We’ve decided to add a bit of extra time in the Android 11 release schedule,” Dave Burke, Google’s VP of engineering, wrote in a blog post today. “We’re moving out Beta 1 and all subsequent milestones by about a month, which gives everyone a bit more room but keeps us on track for final release later in Q3.”
Normally, Google pushes out the first beta release of a major Android update at Google I/O, which is held in May in Mountain View, California. But in March, the tech giant decided to cancel the festivities entirely, citing the coronavirus and San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order, making it unclear when we might hear about Android 11.
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A developer preview of Android 11 arrived in February, but Google decided to push back the beta release schedule for the OS by a month to account for coronavirus-related disruptions.
