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GSMArena.com · 05/21/2025 18:49 EDT

Google previews Android 16’s desktop mode

Android’s long-awaited native desktop mode is finally coming to Android 16, and Google gave a sneak preview during its I/O 2025 developer keynote. It was co-developed alongside Samsung – a logical move given Samsung’s experience with DeX, which first launched on the Galaxy S8 series back in 2017. We got a glimpse of the upcoming desktop interface at the 20:55 mark in the video below.



Android’s native desktop mode looks similar to Chrome OS with a row of apps pinned in a taskbar on the bottom. We can.

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