Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering
We’re releasing the primary Developer Preview of Android 15 in the present day so that you, our builders, can collaborate with us to construct a greater Android.
Android 15 continues our work to construct a platform that helps enhance your productiveness whereas providing you with new capabilities to supply superior media experiences, decrease battery impression, maximize easy app efficiency, and defend person privateness and safety all on probably the most numerous lineup of units on the market.
Android permits your apps to make the most of premium gadget {hardware}, together with high-end digital camera capabilities, highly effective GPUs, dazzling shows, and AI processing. The demand for large-screen units, together with tablets, foldables and flippables, continues to develop, providing a possibility to succeed in high-value customers. Additionally, Android is dedicated to offering tooling and libraries to assist your apps make the most of the newest advances in AI.
Your suggestions on the Android 15 Developer Preview and QPR beta program performs a key function in serving to Android repeatedly enhance. The Android 15 developer web site has extra details about the preview, together with downloads for Pixel and detailed documentation about adjustments. This preview is only the start, and we’ll have tons extra to share as we transfer by the discharge cycle. Thanks upfront to your help make Android a platform that works for everybody.
Defending person privateness and safety
Android is consistently working to create options that maximize person privateness and safety.
Privateness Sandbox on Android
Android 15 brings Android AD Providers as much as extension degree 10, incorporating the newest model of the Privateness Sandbox on Android, a part of our work to develop new applied sciences that enhance person privateness and allow efficient, personalised promoting experiences for cell apps. Our web site has extra concerning the Privateness Sandbox on Android developer preview and beta packages that can assist you get began.
Well being Join
Android 15 integrates Android 14 extensions 10 round Well being Join by Android, a safe and centralized platform to handle and share app-collected well being and health information. This replace provides help for brand new information varieties throughout health, diet, and extra.
File integrity
Android 15’s FileIntegrityManager consists of new APIs that faucet into the facility of the fs-verity characteristic within the Linux kernel. With fs-verity, recordsdata may be protected by customized cryptographic signatures, serving to you guarantee they have not been tampered with or corrupted. This results in enhanced safety, defending in opposition to potential malware or unauthorized file modifications that would compromise your app’s performance or information.
Partial display sharing
Android 15 helps partial display sharing so customers can share or file simply an app window relatively than the whole gadget display. This characteristic, enabled first in Android 14 QPR2, consists of MediaProjection callbacks that permit your app to customise the partial display sharing expertise. Notice that person consent is now required for every MediaProjection seize session.
Supporting creators
Android continues its work to offer you entry to instruments and {hardware} to help creators to deliver their imaginative and prescient to life on Android.
In-app Digicam Controls
Android 15 provides new extensions for extra management over the digital camera {hardware} and its algorithms on supported units:
Digital MIDI 2.0 Gadgets
Android 13 added help for connecting to MIDI 2.0 units by way of USB, which talk utilizing Common MIDI Packets (UMP). Android 15 extends UMP help to digital MIDI apps, enabling composition apps to regulate synthesizer apps as a digital MIDI 2.0 gadget identical to they’d with an USB MIDI 2.0 gadget.
Efficiency and high quality
Android continues its concentrate on serving to you enhance the standard of your apps. A lot of this focus is round tooling and libraries, together with Jetpack Compose, Android Studio, and extra.
Dynamic Efficiency
Android 15 continues our funding within the Android Dynamic Efficiency Framework (ADPF), a set of APIs that permit video games and efficiency intensive apps to work together extra instantly with energy and thermal methods of Android units. On supported units, Android 15 will add new ADPF capabilities:
- A power-efficiency mode for trace classes to point that their related threads ought to want energy saving over efficiency, nice for long-running background workloads.
- GPU and CPU work durations can each be reported in trace classes, permitting the system to regulate CPU and GPU frequencies collectively to finest meet workload calls for.
To study extra about how you can use ADPF in your apps and video games, head over to the documentation.
Developer Productiveness
Android 15 continues so as to add OpenJDK APIs, together with quality-of-life enhancements round NIO buffers, streams, safety, and extra. These APIs are up to date on over a billion units operating Android 12+ by Google Play System updates, so you may goal the newest programming options.
App compatibility
To present you extra time to plan for app compatibility work, we’re letting you already know our Platform Stability milestone effectively upfront.
At this milestone, we’ll ship closing SDK/NDK APIs and in addition closing inner APIs and app-facing system behaviors. We’re anticipating to succeed in Platform Stability in June 2024, and from that point you’ll have a number of months earlier than the official launch to do your closing testing. The discharge timeline particulars are right here.
Get began with Android 15
The Developer Preview has every part it’s good to strive the Android 15 options, take a look at your apps, and provides us suggestions. You may get began in the present day by flashing a system picture onto a Pixel 6, 7, or 8 collection gadget, together with the Pixel Fold and Pixel Pill. In the event you don’t have a Pixel gadget, you may use the 64-bit system photos with the Android Emulator in Android Studio.
For the perfect improvement expertise with Android 15, we suggest that you simply use the newest preview of Android Studio Jellyfish (or newer Jellyfish+ variations). When you’re arrange, listed below are a number of the issues it is best to do:
- Strive the brand new options and APIs – your suggestions is important in the course of the early a part of the developer preview. Report points in our tracker on the suggestions web page.
- Check your present app for compatibility – study whether or not your app is affected by adjustments in Android 15; set up your app onto a tool or emulator operating Android 15 and extensively take a look at it.
We’ll replace the preview system photos and SDK recurrently all through the Android 15 launch cycle. This preliminary preview launch is for builders solely and never supposed for each day or shopper use, so we’re making it accessible by guide obtain solely. When you’ve manually put in a preview construct, you’ll routinely get future updates over-the-air for all later previews and Betas. Learn extra right here.
In the event you intend to maneuver from the Android 14 QPR Beta program to the Android 15 Developer Preview program and do not wish to need to wipe your gadget, we suggest that you simply transfer to Developer Preview 1 now. In any other case you might run into time durations the place the Android 14 Beta may have a newer construct date which can stop you from going on to the Android 15 Developer Preview with out doing an information wipe.
As we attain our Beta releases, we’ll be inviting customers to strive Android 15 as effectively, and we’ll open up enrollment for the Android Beta program at the moment. For now, please observe that the Android Beta program will not be but accessible for Android 15.
For full info, go to the Android 15 developer web site.
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