Android 15 is launched to AOSP

At the moment we’re releasing Android 15 and making the supply code obtainable on the Android Open Supply Mission (AOSP). Android 15 might be obtainable on supported Pixel gadgets within the coming weeks, in addition to on choose gadgets from Samsung, Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, Motorola, Nothing, OnePlus, Oppo, realme, Sharp, Sony, Tecno, vivo, and Xiaomi within the coming months.

We’re proud to proceed our work in open supply by means of the AOSP. Open supply permits anybody to construct upon and contribute to Android, leading to gadgets which might be extra various and revolutionary. You possibly can leverage your app improvement abilities in Android Studio with Jetpack Compose to create functions that thrive throughout the complete ecosystem. You possibly can even study the supply code for a deeper understanding of how Android works.

Android 15 continues our mission of constructing a personal and safe platform that helps enhance your productiveness whereas providing you with new capabilities to supply lovely apps, superior media and digicam experiences, and an intuitive person expertise, significantly on tablets and foldables.

Beginning at this time, we’re kicking off a brand new instructional collection referred to as Highlight Weeks, the place we dive into technical subjects throughout Android, starting with per week of content material on Android 15. Take a look at what we’ll be protecting all through the week, in addition to at this time’s deep dive into edge-to-edge.

Enhancing your developer expertise

Whereas most of our work to enhance your productiveness facilities round instruments like Android Studio, Jetpack Compose, and the Android Jetpack libraries, every new Android platform launch consists of quality-of-life updates to enhance the event expertise. For instance, Android 15 provides you new insights and telemetry to mean you can additional tune your app expertise, so you may make modifications that enhance the way in which your app runs on any platform launch.

• The ApplicationStartInfo API helps present perception into your app startup together with the startup cause, time spent in launch phases, begin temperature, and extra.
• The StorageStats.getAppBytesByDataType([type]) API provides you new insights into how your app is utilizing storage, together with apk file splits, ahead-of-time (AOT) and speedup associated code, dex metadata, libraries, and guided profiles.
• Android 15 provides new Canvas drawing capabilities, together with Matrix44 to assist manipulate the Canvas in 3D and clipShader/clipOutShader to allow complicated shapes by intersecting both the present shader or a distinction of the present shader.

Enhancing typography and internationalization

Android helps you make lovely apps that work nicely throughout the worldwide variety of the Android ecosystem.

• Now you can create a FontFamily occasion from variable fonts in Android 15 with out having to specify wght and ital axes utilizing the buildVariableFamily API; the textual content renderer will robotically regulate the values of the wght and ital axes to match the airing textual content with appropriate fonts.

• The font file in Android 15 for Chinese language, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages, NotoSansCJK, is now a variable font, opening up new prospects for inventive typography.

Digicam and media enhancements

Every Android launch helps you convey superior media and digicam experiences to your customers.

• For screens that include each HDR and SDR content material, Android 15 lets you management the HDR headroom with setDesiredHdrHeadroom to forestall SDR content material from showing too washed-out.
• Android 15 helps intelligently adjusting audio loudness and dynamic vary compression ranges for apps with AAC audio content material that incorporates loudness metadata in order that audio ranges can adapt to person gadgets and environment. To allow, instantiate a LoudnessCodecController with the audio session ID from the related AudioTrack.

• Low Mild Increase in Android 15 adjusts the publicity of the Preview stream in low-light circumstances, enabling enhanced picture previews, scanning QR codes in low gentle, and extra.
• Superior flash energy changes in Android 15 allow exact management of flash depth in each SINGLE and TORCH modes whereas capturing pictures.
• Android 15 extends Common MIDI Packets assist to digital MIDI apps, enabling composition apps to manage synthesizer apps as a digital MIDI 2.0 system similar to they’d with an USB MIDI 2.0 system.

Enhancing the person expertise

We proceed to refine the Android person expertise with each launch, whereas working to enhance efficiency and battery life. Right here is simply a few of what Android 15 brings to make the expertise extra intuitive, performant, and accessible.

• Customers can save their favourite split-screen app mixtures for fast entry and pin the taskbar on display to rapidly swap between apps for higher massive display multitasking on Android 15; ensuring your app is adaptive is extra vital than ever.
• Android 15 permits TalkBack to assist Braille shows which might be utilizing the HID normal over each USB and safe Bluetooth to assist Android assist a wider vary of Braille shows.
• On supported Android 15 gadgets, NfcAdapter permits apps to request observe mode in addition to register filters, enabling one-tap transactions in lots of instances throughout a number of NFC succesful apps.
• Apps can declare a property to permit your Software or Exercise to be introduced on the small cowl screens of supported flippable gadgets.
• Android 15 significantly enhances AutomaticZenRules to permit apps to additional customise Consideration Administration (Do Not Disturb) guidelines by including varieties, icons, set off descriptions, and the power to set off ZenDeviceEffects.
• Android 15 now consists of OS–stage assist for app archiving and unarchiving. Archiving removes the APK and any cached recordsdata, however persists person knowledge and returns the app as displayable by means of the LauncherApps APIs, and the unique installer can restore it upon a request to unarchive.

Privateness and safety enhancements

Privateness and safety are on the core of all the things we do, and we work to make significant enhancements to guard your apps and our customers with every platform launch.

• Personal area in Android 15 lets customers create a separate area on their system the place they will hold delicate apps away from prying eyes, underneath a further layer of authentication. Some kinds of apps comparable to medical apps, launcher apps, and app shops could have to take further steps to operate as anticipated in a person’s personal area.
• Android 15 provides assist for apps to detect that they’re being recorded as a way to inform the person that they are being recorded in case your app is performing a delicate operation.
• PendingIntent creators block background exercise launches by default in Android 15 to assist stop apps from by chance making a PendingIntent that might be abused by malicious actors.

Get your apps, libraries, instruments, and sport engines prepared!

In case you develop an SDK, library, software, or sport engine, it is significantly vital to arrange any vital updates instantly to forestall your downstream app and sport builders from being blocked by compatibility points and permit them to focus on the most recent SDK options. Please let your builders know if updates are wanted to completely assist Android 15.

Testing your app entails putting in your manufacturing app utilizing Google Play or different means onto a tool or emulator operating Android 15. Work by means of all of your app’s flows and search for practical or UI points. Evaluation the habits modifications to focus your testing. Listed below are a number of modifications to think about that apply even in the event you do not but goal Android 15:

• Bundle stopped state modifications – Android 15 updates the habits of the bundle FLAG_STOPPED state to maintain apps stopped till the person launches or not directly interacts with the app.
• Assist for 16KB web page sizes – Starting with Android 15, 16 KB web page dimension assist might be obtainable on choose gadgets as a developer possibility. Moreover, Android Studio additionally provides an emulator system picture with 16 KB assist by means of the SDK supervisor. In case your app or library makes use of the NDK, both straight or not directly by means of a library, you should utilize the developer possibility within the QPR beta or the Android 15 emulator system picture to check and repair functions to arrange for Android gadgets with 16 KB web page sizes within the close to future.
• Eliminated legacy emoji font file – Some Android 15 gadgets comparable to Pixel will now not have the bitmap NotoColorEmojiLegacy.ttf file included for compatibility since Android 13 and can solely have the default vector file.

Please completely train libraries and SDKs that your app is utilizing throughout your compatibility testing. You could have to replace to present SDK variations or attain out to the developer for assist in the event you encounter any points.

When you’ve printed the Android 15-compatible model of your app, you can begin the course of to replace your app’s targetSdkVersion.

App compatibility

We’re working to make updates sooner and smoother with every platform launch by prioritizing app compatibility. In Android 15 we’ve made most app-facing modifications opt-in till your app targets SDK model 35. This offers you extra time to make any vital app modifications.

To make it simpler so that you can check the opt-in modifications that may have an effect on your app, primarily based in your suggestions we’ve made a lot of them toggleable once more this yr. With the toggles, you may force-enable or disable the modifications individually from Developer choices or adb. Take a look at how to do that, right here.

App compatibility toggles in Developer Choices

That will help you migrate your app to focus on Android 15, the Android SDK Improve Assistant throughout the newest Android Studio Koala Function Drop launch now covers android 15 API modifications and walks you thru the steps to improve your targetSdkVersion.

Android SDK improve assistant in Android Studio Koala characteristic drop

Get began with Android 15

When you’ve got a supported Pixel system, you’ll obtain the general public Android 15 over the air replace when it turns into obtainable. In case you do not need to wait, you may get the newest quarterly platform launch (QPR) beta by becoming a member of the Android 15 QPR beta program at any time.

In case you’re already within the QPR beta program on a Pixel system that helps the following Android launch, you will doubtless have been provided the chance to put in the primary Android 15 QPR beta replace. If you wish to opt-out of the beta program with out wiping your system, do not set up the beta and as an alternative look forward to an replace to the discharge model when it’s made obtainable in your Pixel system. As soon as you have utilized the secure launch replace, you may decide out with out a knowledge wipe so long as you do not apply the following beta replace.

Keep tuned for the following 5 days of our Highlight Week on Android 15, the place we’ll be protecting subjects like edge-to-edge, passkeys, updates to foreground companies, picture-in-picture, and extra. Observe alongside on our weblog, X, LinkedIn or YouTube channels. Thanks once more to everybody who participated in our Android developer preview and beta program. We’re trying ahead to seeing how your apps make the most of the updates in Android 15.

For full data, go to the Android 15 developer website.

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