The first open beta came out in April, the source code was released in September, and it was only two months ago, in October, that the first stable version of Android 15 was launched on the market. Android 15 has been with us for a few weeks, but Android 16 is already warming up.
Newcomer’s Base HyperOS 2, Android 15 may be the last of the Androids that arrives on an annual basis. And if you want to know which Xiaomi phones are candidates for Android 16, here is a list of possible models that receive it.
Two Android updates per year, one every 6 months
Just on Halloween, Android developers they published a post in which they reported that in 2025 There will not be one major Android update – the move from Android 15 to Android 16 – but two.
As they pointed out, “Android will have more frequent SDK releases with two releases planned in 2025 with new APIs for developers. These releases will help drive faster innovation in apps and devices, with greater stability and polish for users and developers.”
The idea is that Android 16 as such will be released in the second quarter of the year, between April 1 and June 30, and in the fourth quarterfrom October 1 to December 31, a new SDK is released, smaller than the one from the second quarter but with changes and new features in the APIs and functions. Something like Android 16 part 1 and Android 16 part 2to get the idea.
The Android 16 roadmap in 2025
Which Xiaomi phones will be candidates for Android 16
When many of us still do not have our Xiaomi updated to HyperOS 2, and therefore to Android 15, Google has already launched Android 16 Developer Preview 2 just a month after Preview 1. Therefore, Websites like Xiaomi Time have already compiled lists of the brand’s models candidates for Android 16.
At the moment, with HyperOS 2 just landed, We don’t know if Xiaomi will launch HyperOS 3 when Android 16 arrives before summer 2025, or if it will simply integrate its new features into a hypothetical HyperOS 2.5, waiting for the second Android 16 SDK update at the end of the year to release HyperOS 3.
Xiaomi, POCO and Redmi models candidates for Android 16
In parentheses you have the code name by which they were known during their development:
Xiaomi
- Xiaomi 13 Lite/Xiaomi Civi 2 (ziyi)
- Xiaomi 13 Pro (nuwa)
- Xiaomi 13 Ultra (ishtar)
- Xiaomi 14 (houji)
- Xiaomi 14 Pro (shennong)
- Xiaomi 14 Ultra (aurora)
- Xiaomi 13T Pro (corot)
- Xiaomi 13T (aristotle)
- Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro (liuqin)
- Xiaomi Civi 3 (yuechu)
- Xiaomi Pad 6 Max 14 (yudi)
- Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 (babylon)
- Xiaomi MIX FLIP (ruyi)
- Xiaomi MIX FOLD 4 (goku)
- Xiaomi 14 CIVI/Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro (chenfeng)
- Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4 (sheng)
- Xiaomi 14T (degas)
- Xiaomi 14T Pro (rothko)
Redmi
- Redmi K80 (zorn)
- Redmi K80 Pro (watch)
- Redmi A4 5G (warm)
- Redmi Turbo 4 (rodin)
- Redmi K60 Pro (socrates)
- Redmi K60 (mondrian)
- Redmi Note 13 Pro (red)
- Redmi Note 13 Pro+ (zircon)
- Redmi K70 Pro (manet)
- Redmi K70E (duchamp)
- Redmi K70 (vermeer)
- Redmi 13R/Redmi 13C 5G (air)
- Redmi K60 Ultra (corot)
- Redmi Note 13 Pro 4G (emerald)
- Redmi Turbo 3 (peridot)
- Redmi 13 5G/Redmi Note 13R (breeze)
- Redmi 13 (moon)
- Redmi Pad Pro 5G (Rouan)
- Redmi Pad Pro (dizi)
- Redmi 14R 5G (flame)
- Redmi 14C/Redmi A3 Pro (lake)
- Redmi Pad SE 4G (spark)
- Redmi Pad SE 8.7 Wi-Fi (flare)
- Redmi K70 Ultra (rothko)
- Redmi Note 14 (beryl)
- Redmi Note 14 Pro (malachite)
- Redmi Note 14 Pro+ (amethyst)
- Redmi 14C/Redmi A3 Pro (lake)
BIT
- POCO F7 (zorn)
- POCO F7 Ultra (I watch)
- POCO X7 Pro (rodin)
- POCO X7 (malachite)
- POCO C75 5G (warm)
- POCO F5 Pro (mondrian)
- POCO X6 5G (red)
- POCO X6 Pro (duchamp)
- POCO F6 Pro (vermeer)
- POCO M6 Pro 4G (emerald)
- LITTLE F6 (peridot)
- POCO M6 Plus 5G (breeze)
- POCO M6 (moon)
- POCO Pad (disciple)
- LITTLE C75 (lake)
Via | Xiaomi Time / Android Developer’s Blog
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