The Android improvement staff has introduced the second beta of Android 15, which is now accessible on extra units in addition to simply Pixels, together with these from Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, OPPO, Realme, Sharp, Tecno, vivo, and Xiaomi.
Android 15 can even help 16 KB web page sizes (along with the usual 4 KB), which can require builders who use NDK libraries to rebuild their app to work on the bigger web page sizes. In response to the Android staff, 16 KB pages supply efficiency enhancements equivalent to decrease app launch occasions when the system is below reminiscence stress, lowered energy draw throughout launches, quicker digital camera launch, and improved system boot time.
“As gadget producers proceed to construct units with bigger quantities of bodily reminiscence (RAM), many of those units will undertake 16 KB (and ultimately better) web page sizes to optimize the gadget’s efficiency. Including help for 16 KB web page dimension units permits your app to run on these units and helps your app profit from the related efficiency enhancements. We plan to make 16 KB web page compatibility required for app uploads to Play Retailer subsequent 12 months,” David Burke, VP of engineering for Android, wrote in a weblog put up.
This beta additionally provides a brand new requirement for apps operating within the background to have the ability to begin foreground providers. Foreground providers utilizing the “SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW” permission exemption should have a visual overlay when focusing on Android 15.
One other change in Android 15 is the introduction of ANGLE (Virtually Native Graphics Layer Engine) as an extra layer to run the graphics rendering API OpenGL ES on high of Vulkan, which is an interface for Android GPUs.
In response to Burke, shifting the ANGLE will assist standardize the Android implementation of OpenGL, main to raised compatibility and efficiency. By 2026, OpenGL ES will solely be accessible via ANGLE.
Different new options within the Android 15 beta embrace new performance in Android’s Canvas graphics system, improved AV1 software program decoding, new permission checks on content material URIs, and extra.
Learn the weblog put up on Android 15 Beta 2 for extra info.
