Android will be updated once a year.

Andy Rubin, head of the Android project at Google, spoke in an interview with Mercury News about future plans for the development of the operating system. In particular, there was a question about too frequent updates , because of which developers have great difficulty.

Since the fall of 2008, when the first version of Android was released, four major updates were released (1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.0 / 2.1 Eclair and 2.2 Froyo). And each time, developers had to redo their applications for compatibility.

As Andy Rubin said, after the release of Android 2.2, the company plans to slow down such high rates of release updates. At first they will appear every six months, and with time no more than once a year:
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We've gone through a lot of product iterations because we had to bring the product up to the market spec. If you’re looking at it, you’ll be looking at it.

So we launched it, and we got to 1.0 pretty quickly. You've noticed, probably, that’s slowed down a little bit. If you’ve been up, you’ll be able to keep up. I want you to leverage the innovation. I don’t want to know what it means.