This week's Android Police podcast raps Google's wrists for pulling the pall over Android app downloaders and their desires to grab an APK from a third-party source. We preview the look of Android 16 and also how it might NOT look like what's been discovered. All that, plus your usual dose of AI skepticism, quasi-Luddite propagandizing, and a return to Hayao Miyazaki.

04:36 | Traps

Download apps. Not traps | Google Play
Exclusive: We interview Google's new Play Store boss about improving Android

15:54 | Leak: How and why Google made Material 3 Expressive | 9to5Google

28:27 | AI

Eddy Cue is fighting to save Apple’s $20 billion paycheck from Google | The Verge
Apple Explores Move to AI Search in Browser Amid Google Fallout - Bloomberg
Google's statement on May 7 press reports about Search traffic
Filterworld — Kyle Chayka

39:56 | You should skip out on Android flagships in 2025 and buy this instead

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Android 16 is inspired by the stuff Google left behind