{"id":3646,"date":"2026-10-01T23:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/android-central-will-continue-despite-laying-off-its-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:20:29","slug":"android-central-will-continue-despite-laying-off-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/android-central-will-continue-despite-laying-off-its-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Central \u2018will continue\u2019 despite laying off its staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-12.18.47-PM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Android Central<\/em>, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to <em>The Verge<\/em> that the site will continue publishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, four of the six staffers on <em>Android Central<\/em>&lsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/about#section-meet-the-android-central-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff page<\/a> posted publicly about the layoffs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/shrutishekar_i-was-part-of-the-layoffs-at-future-yesterday-activity-7511414208626913281-xCTF?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAIV1iYBHi7OPybalzIKilWBO4bTY5vJb8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shruti Shekar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/bhollyov_as-of-today-my-time-at-android-central-has-activity-7511172120819810305-Opf9?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAIV1iYBHi7OPybalzIKilWBO4bTY5vJb8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derrek Lee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7511134110216667137\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harish Jonnalagadda<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7511184016037814272\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Sutrich<\/a>, and former senior editor Namerah Saud Fatmi updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/namerah-saud-fatmi-6132541b8\/?isSelfProfile=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her LinkedIn<\/a> to indicate that her tenure at <em>Android Central<\/em> had ended. Both Lee, the site&rsquo;s managing editor, and Sutrich confirmed that all remaining staff were laid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former staffers weren&rsquo;t told whether the site would shut down. Today,  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1003735\/android-central-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}