{"id":117752,"date":"2025-05-20T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117752\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:40:08","slug":"android-16-qpr1-beta-1-offers-a-look-at-material-3-expressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117752\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 offers a look at Material 3 Expressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_-g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Android 16 logo on smartphone 03\"  alt=\"Android 16 logo on smartphone 03\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Android-16-logo-on-smartphone-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google has just revealed the first beta for Android 16 QPR 1.<\/li>\n<li>This is effectively a preview for the next Pixel Drop release, expected to launch in June.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google has just made plenty of announcements as part of I\/O 2025. While this is primarily an event about AI, we got a ton of Android news at its pre-event Android Show last week, including our best look yet at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-material-3-expressive-features-changes-availability-supported-devices-3556392\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Material 3 Expressive<\/a>. The company isn\u2019t stopping there, as the first beta for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-features-3484159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android 16<\/a> QPR 1 is rolling out now, complete with some of that new design language.<\/p>\n<p>Android 16 QPR1 is the first quarterly Android release after stable Android 16. This first beta is effectively a preview for the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-feature-drop-3360934\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel Drop<\/a>. Google\u2019s making this release available to download as a Generic System Image (GSI),\u00a0 and it\u2019s also available to Pixel users enrolled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/android\/beta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android beta program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/16\/release-notes-qpr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> is making this new beta release available for the Pixel 6 series and newer, the Pixel 6a and newer, the Pixel Tablet, the Pixel Fold, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-qpr1-beta-1-3557258\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority TL;DR Google has just revealed the first beta for Android 16 QPR 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2061,2239,867,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-117752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-android-16","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114541626927475306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}