Trunk Stable is Android's new development process, and it's significantly improved how fast new features are created and tested for stability. Here's how.
In the past few months, you may have seen me reference a project called Trunk Stable. I talked about it briefly in our interview with Google VPs Seang Chau and Matthew McCullough, for example, as it's responsible for how Google was able to move up Android 16's release date.
If you haven't heard, Trunk Stable is a major revamp of the way that Google develops the Android operating system. Instead of working on long-lived branches of code that would later be merged back to the main branch, Google now does everything in their internal Android main branch and uses a new feature flagging system to control feature availability.
That's the gist of Trunk Stable, but if you're interested in learning more about this initiative, I did an interview with Sebastiano Poggi and Ivan Morgillo, who host the Code with the Italians show, that delves deeper into the project and how it's changed Android feature development. Check out the recording of my interview below!
