Google, which owns search engine Alphabet, said on Saturday it had postponed a disclosure event of the recent Android operating system, due to protests and unrest in the United States of America.
Google announced the delay via the Android developer account on Twitter, and said, "We are excited to tell you more about Android 11, but now is not the time to celebrate, we are postponing the June 3 event and the Android 11 beta. We will be back with more soon."
We are excited to tell you more about Android 11, but now is not the time to celebrate. We are postponing the June 3rd event and beta release. We'll be back with more on Android 11, soon.
- Android Developers (@AndroidDev) May 30, 2020
Google did not reveal a new date for the event, nor did the company provide a specific reason for the delay, but the tweet indicates that the delay was due to protests in the United States over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer detained him by pressing his neck with his knee, which Choked him.
Google had already released a version for developers of Android 11, and the version revealed features such as the original screen recording and notifications log function.
The original date for the developer event (I / O) for Google, which was supposed to reveal the details of the recent version of the Android operating system and possibly a pixel phone any 4 in May of each year, but unfortunately, the company had to cancel the appointment due to a pandemic Corona and change it to become an online event and set next June 3 as the date before announcing today its cancellation again.