The Android growth crew has introduced the second beta of Android 15, which is now obtainable 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. Based on the Android crew, 16 KB pages provide efficiency enhancements equivalent to decrease app launch instances when the system is underneath reminiscence stress, diminished 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 finally larger) web page sizes to optimize the gadget’s efficiency. Including help for 16 KB web page dimension units allows 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 yr,” David Burke, VP of engineering for Android, wrote in a weblog put up.
This beta additionally provides a brand new requirement for apps working 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 concentrating on Android 15.
One other change in Android 15 is the introduction of ANGLE (Virtually Native Graphics Layer Engine) as a further layer to run the graphics rendering API OpenGL ES on high of Vulkan, which is an interface for Android GPUs.
Based on Burke, transferring the ANGLE will assist standardize the Android implementation of OpenGL, main to raised compatibility and efficiency. By 2026, OpenGL ES will solely be obtainable via ANGLE.
Different new options within the Android 15 beta embody 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.