Android enthusiasts, rejoice! The much-anticipated Android 15 Beta 2 has finally arrived, bringing with it a plethora of exciting changes and features. Let’s dive into a comprehensive summary of what this beta release has to offer:
1. Private Space: This innovative feature allows users to create a separate space on their devices where they can store sensitive apps away from prying eyes. With a separate user profile that pauses when the device is locked, apps in the private space remain hidden from recent apps, notifications, and settings, ensuring maximum privacy.
2. App Pairs: Android 15 now introduces the ability to save pairs of apps for quick access in split-screen mode, enhancing multitasking capabilities and productivity on mobile devices.
3. Predictive Back: System animations for back-to-home, cross-task, and cross-activity actions are now enabled by default, eliminating the need to enable a developer option for users to experience smoother navigation within apps.
4. Media Permissions: Apps can now highlight only the most recently selected photos and videos when granted partial access to media permissions, offering users more control over their media sharing experience.
5. Remote Views for Widget Picker: Apps targeting Android 15 can provide Remote Views to the Widget Picker, allowing for more personalized and relevant widget previews.
6. Health Connect Updates: Health Connect introduces two new data types – skin temperature and training plans, catering to users' diverse health and fitness needs.
7. Language Customization: Users whose system language is set to French now have the option to customize how the operating system addresses them based on grammatical gender, providing a more tailored user experience.
8. Rich Vibrations for Notifications: Android 15 Beta 2 enables apps to set rich vibrations for incoming notifications by channel, allowing users to distinguish between notifications using haptics.
9. Improved Picture-in-Picture Animation: The animation for entering Picture-in-Picture mode is now smoother, benefiting apps with overlaid UI elements on their main interface. Additionally, apps can receive a callback when the PiP animation starts, facilitating quick toggling of irrelevant UI elements.
10. Enhanced Security Measures: Android 15 introduces various security enhancements, including blocking apps that don’t match the top UID on the stack from launching activities, and improvements to intent security specifications.
11. Performance Improvements: Android 15 Beta 2 brings support for 16 KB page sizes, promising improved performance in memory-intensive workloads, and includes ANGLE as an optional layer for running OpenGL ES on top of Vulkan, standardizing the Android OpenGL implementation.
12. AV1 Decoder Integration: Devices lacking a hardware AV1 decoder can now utilize VideoLAN’s efficient software AV1 decoder (dav1d), included by default in Android 15.
13. Foreground Service Enhancements: Foreground services now have a ~6 hour timeout for dataSync and mediaProcessing types, ensuring efficient resource utilization and system performance.
14. API Updates: Beta 2 includes API-related updates from ICU 74, along with various text rendering improvements for better readability across languages.
Excited to explore these new features? Update to Android 15 Beta 2 today and experience the future of mobile innovation firsthand!
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