It’s already been a big year for Google and Android, which Samat, a 16-year Google veteran, runs. Android 16 (code-name Baclava) was officially unveiled at Google I/O 2025 in May, bringing with it ...

Google’s Android chief says coding is just one slice of what a computer science degree offers, urging students to look beyond surface-level skills.

Google's Sameer Samat said it's time to rebrand the computer science major. Samat emphasized problem-solving over coding as the core of computer science. He said that beyond the degree, students ...

Google’s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software that currently runs across Google’s Chromebook laptops.

Google is taking another step toward unifying its ecosystem by merging Android and ChromeOS. Sameer Samat, the president of Google’s Android ecosystem, confirmed this shift in an interview with ...

In this case, it might mean the writing is on the wall for Chrome OS as it currently exists. Chrome OS definitely had a ...

Early in his career, Sameer Samat’s cofounders wanted to ditch their startup for college. A 3 a.m. email to Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin changed the course of their careers for good.

Google's Sameer Samat says AI offers a unique opportunity for the Android ecosystem. Gemini AI on Android operates at the system UI level, providing context-aware capabilities.

Sameer Samat, the head of Google's Android ecosystem, revealed how a late-night "cold mail" to Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 1999 turned out to be a crucial moment in his career.

That’s Google Play boss Sameer Samat, in an old video that Epic presented to the jury. I didn’t catch the date, but a fellow reporter says the accompanying slide was dated 2020.

Google's Sameer Samat, general manager and vice president of Android, Google Play and Wear OS, sees advancements in AI as a big part of where phones are headed. We spoke in a quiet room amid ...

Take your data. Have your apps move over. Like, this should be simple. It’s 2025.” Apple and Google do provide instructions and even apps for making the migration, but I get Samat’s point.