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• 2025032500 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2025032100 release:

• Network Location: rewrite position estimation in Rust (from Kotlin) with a new algorithm based on Expectation-Maximization (EM) always using 3D (altitude) to provide much better accuracy, robustness and performance (this new 3D implementation performs better than the previous implementation in the 2D mode we were stuck using due to 3D being far too CPU intensive)
• Network Location: improve RSSI-based (signal strength) distance estimation including tuning it separately for 2.4GHz vs. 5GHz/6GHz and take distance variance into account for position estimation (Wi-Fi Round-Trip-Time support will be added in the future for Access Points supporting it)
• Network Location: add support for 6GHz Wi-Fi networks via Reduced Neighbor Report (RNR)
• Network Location: increase the number of closest APs we explicitly request data for from 5 to 15
• Network Location: request data for up to 4 APs at a time instead of only 1 to improve networking efficiency
• Network Location: make our requests more closely match a current macOS release to avoid future compatibility issues and to get Apple’s service to provide more than only 2.4GHz networks as nearby networks in response to queries
• Network Location: reduce requesting data for 100 additional nearby Wi-Fi APs down to 8 APs when a decent amount of additional results were returned from a recent request for up to 100 in the past 10 seconds
• backport upstream brightness fluctuation fix from Android 16 Beta 3.1
• Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: fix Location Accuracy link with Play services 25.09 and later so we can ship it as an update for users with sandboxed Google Play installed
• Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: remove no longer supported “Configure Play Store updates” settings since we always handle updates ourselves via our App Store now
• fix an upstream screenshot process crash in ScrollCaptureController
• Terminal (virtual machine management app): backport upstream improvements including detecting an outdated image to providing an upgrade path and removing the artificial cap on disk resize
• Vanadium: update to version 134.0.6998.135.0
• only block installing out-of-band APEX updates on production (user) builds since it’s useful for development
• add support for testing Android 16 Beta 3 feature flags for development builds
• begin porting our changes to work with Android 16 feature flags