Android 16 April stable - CP1A.260405.005

Track: Android 16 stable | Note: this is the baseline build used for comparison when tracking Android 17 changes

The Android 16 April stable release serves as the comparison baseline for this tracker. Enterprise-relevant items here represent the stable production state against which Android 17 beta changes are measured.

Key enterprise state at this baseline

• 42 flags graduated - a large batch of feature flags moved from runtime delegation to hardcoded enabled, including app restriction coexistence, password reset with token coexistence, onboarding bug report storage fixes, and managed profile removal
• Dedicated device control API shipped enabled
• Policy size tracking shipped enabled, letting administrators monitor policy quota usage
• Device admin feature checks removed - the flag for removing legacy device admin feature checks shipped enabled, simplifying the admin API surface
• String-keyed policy API - an A16-only generic policy API using string keys (clearPolicy, getIntegerPolicy) was present. This approach was superseded by the typed PolicyIdentifier approach in Android 17
• Handoff restriction - the DISALLOW_HANDOFF user restriction (A16 naming) was present, later renamed to DISALLOW_TASK_CONTINUITY_HANDOFF in Android 17
• Policy transparency v2 (provisional) - a flag for the next generation of the policy transparency engine
• Package as admin ID (provisional) - a flag for using package names as admin identifiers
• Multi-user provisioning (provisional) - a flag for user-level multi-user provisioning