Spread across three impactful Android versions, 2012 and 2013’s Jelly ... and a long-under-development predictive back visual that lets you see a peek at where you’re headed before you get ...

It streamlines Android development so that the company doesn’t have to worry about managing two sets of source code and fielding comments while working on the next version of Android.

This change will undoubtedly make development easier for Google's team, but it could limit how much we know about Android before new versions are official. Sometimes, the tidbits that appear in ...