Android 15 may quickly have a a lot, a lot better display screen recording system

Android has had a built-in display screen recorder function for a few years now, however it’s been pretty barebones till lately. With the launch of Android 14’s second quarterly platform launch, the system display screen recorder lastly added the choice to report a single app as an alternative of your complete display screen. Within the first quarterly platform launch of Android 15, Google may improve Android’s display screen recorder but once more by including a extra helpful indicator within the standing bar.

Whenever you solid or report your display screen on an Android cellphone proper now, the system shows a tiny indicator on the appropriate facet of the standing bar. For display screen recordings, this indicator is a purple dot enclosing a smaller white dot with curved white traces round it. For screencasting classes, this indicator is the Google Solid icon. Each indicators inform the person that some app — both SystemUI or a third-party Android display screen recording app utilizing the platform’s MediaProjection API — is recording or casting the display screen.

Nonetheless, that’s all the knowledge we see. These indicators don’t inform you whether or not it’s SystemUI or a third-party app that’s recording or casting the display screen, nor do they inform you how lengthy the display screen recording or display screen casting session has been occurring. It is advisable pull down the standing bar to see the notification from the app that’s recording or casting the display screen. You additionally want to do that while you need to finish the display screen recording or screencasting session, which may probably expose extra data than you’re keen to share.

Fortuitously, Google is seeking to change all that in an upcoming Android 15 launch. Whereas digging by the newest Android 15 Beta 4.2 launch, I found code for a revamped display screen recording and screencasting expertise. After a little bit of tinkering, I managed to completely allow this new expertise. For starters, there are new chips within the standing bar that show the continuing length of a display screen recording or display screen casting session.

The brand new chips not solely present extra data at a look than the unique indicators, however additionally they assist you to cease a display screen recording or screencasting session with out knocking down the standing bar. All that you must do is faucet on the chip to open a dialog that allows you to cease recording or casting.

The dialog that seems when a third-party app requests to report or solid the display screen has additionally been unified, as proven under. It now asks you whether or not you need to “share your display screen” quite than “begin recording or casting.” After granting permission, a special standing bar chip seems than the one which’s proven when SystemUI is recording or casting your display screen. This chip tells you at a look {that a} third-party app is recording or casting your display screen.

Though I noticed these display screen recording adjustments within the Android 15 Beta 4.2 launch, I doubt they’ll go reside within the secure launch of Android 15. As a substitute, I believe we’ll see them within the upcoming Android 15 QPR1 launch, if not later. There’s no strategy to inform when adjustments like these will land, however on condition that the revamped expertise is already absolutely purposeful, I believe we gained’t have to attend too lengthy for it to roll out.