The First Developer Preview of Android 15

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering

We’re releasing the primary Developer Preview of Android 15 at present 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 supplying you with new capabilities to supply superior media experiences, reduce battery affect, maximize clean app efficiency, and shield person privateness and safety all on probably the most numerous lineup of units on the market.

Android allows your apps to benefit from premium system {hardware}, together with high-end digicam 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 achieve high-value customers. Additionally, Android is dedicated to offering tooling and libraries to assist your apps benefit from the newest advances in AI.

Your suggestions on the Android 15 Developer Preview and QPR beta program performs a key position in serving to Android constantly enhance. The Android 15 developer web site has extra details about the preview, together with downloads for Pixel and detailed documentation about modifications. This preview is only the start, and we’ll have tons extra to share as we transfer by means of the discharge cycle. Thanks upfront to your assist in making 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 stage 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 knowledge. This replace provides assist for brand spanking new knowledge sorts throughout health, vitamin, and extra.

File integrity

Android 15’s FileIntegrityManager consists of new APIs that faucet into the ability of the fs-verity function within the Linux kernel. With fs-verity, information 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 might compromise your app’s performance or knowledge.

Partial display sharing

Android 15 helps partial display sharing so customers can share or document simply an app window quite than your entire system display. This function, enabled first in Android 14 QPR2, consists of MediaProjection callbacks that permit your app to customise the partial display sharing expertise. Be aware 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 assist creators to deliver their imaginative and prescient to life on Android.

In-app Digital camera Controls

Android 15 provides new extensions for extra management over the digicam {hardware} and its algorithms on supported units:

• Superior flash power changes enabling exact management of flash depth in each SINGLE and TORCH modes whereas capturing photographs.

Digital MIDI 2.0 Units

Android 13 added assist for connecting to MIDI 2.0 units through USB, which talk utilizing Common MIDI Packets (UMP). Android 15 extends UMP assist to digital MIDI apps, enabling composition apps to regulate synthesizer apps as a digital MIDI 2.0 system identical to they might with an USB MIDI 2.0 system.

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 immediately with energy and thermal methods of Android units. On supported units, Android 15 will add new ADPF capabilities:

• A power-efficiency mode for trace periods to point that their related threads ought to favor energy saving over efficiency, nice for long-running background workloads.
• GPU and CPU work durations can each be reported in trace periods, permitting the system to regulate CPU and GPU frequencies collectively to finest meet workload calls for.

To be taught extra about the way to 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 working Android 12+ by means of Google Play System updates, so you may goal the newest programming options.

App compatibility

To provide 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 ultimate SDK/NDK APIs and likewise ultimate inside APIs and app-facing system behaviors. We’re anticipating to achieve Platform Stability in June 2024, and from that point you’ll have a number of months earlier than the official launch to do your ultimate testing. The discharge timeline particulars are right here.

Get began with Android 15

The Developer Preview has all the pieces you should strive the Android 15 options, take a look at your apps, and provides us suggestions. You will get began at present by flashing a system picture onto a Pixel 6, 7, or 8 collection system, together with the Pixel Fold and Pixel Pill. For those who don’t have a Pixel system, you may use the 64-bit system photographs with the Android Emulator in Android Studio.

For the most effective growth expertise with Android 15, we advocate that you simply use the newest preview of Android Studio Jellyfish (or more moderen Jellyfish+ variations). When you’re arrange, listed below are a few of the issues you need to do:

• Attempt the brand new options and APIs – your suggestions is crucial 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 – be taught whether or not your app is affected by modifications in Android 15; set up your app onto a tool or emulator working Android 15 and extensively take a look at it.

We’ll replace the preview system photographs and SDK usually all through the Android 15 launch cycle. This preliminary preview launch is for builders solely and never supposed for every day or client use, so we’re making it obtainable by handbook obtain solely. When you’ve manually put in a preview construct, you’ll mechanically get future updates over-the-air for all later previews and Betas. Learn extra right here.

For those who intend to maneuver from the Android 14 QPR Beta program to the Android 15 Developer Preview program and do not need to need to wipe your system, we advocate that you simply transfer to Developer Preview 1 now. In any other case chances are you’ll run into time intervals the place the Android 14 Beta can have a more moderen construct date which is able to forestall you from going on to the Android 15 Developer Preview with out doing a knowledge 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 word that the Android Beta program will not be but obtainable for Android 15.

For full info, go to the Android 15 developer web site.

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