Android 15
Android 15 Might Permit More Apps to Utilize Full Display
From using the phones only for calling purposes to spending at least more than half of the day on phones, technology and demands grew.
It’s nostalgic, when we used to play “snake game” on the phone with a maximum 2-inch display. But as the technology started to expand, the size of the display also increased as per the demands of people.
Beyond question, as compared to the past, today we are using phones with the suffix “smart,” which undoubtedly makes the phone smart. The Android smartphone brands are offering more and more facilities and features as per convenience, so that users get an enhanced experience.
Now that we’ve added an extra layer of upgrading, it’s time for the upcoming Android 15. And the reports indicate that Android 15 is poised to force a few applications to go edge-to-edge by default.
According to Mishaal Rahman and colleagues at androidauthority, it seems that Google intends to make the entire space available on the display occupable by default in Android 15, the next version of the green robot.
For going edge-to-edge, the application needs to opt-in by putting into attention a few APIs. This is due to the fact that drawing the UI behind the navigation bar and status bar probably does not make sense for each application, especially in scenarios where there are interactive elements such as buttons that would overlap with the system bars. Before empowering the edge-to-edge mode for the applications, developers have a way of addressing these overlaps.
But here is the question: why has Google so far chosen not to bring to bear this mechanism for each application? The code was discovered in the latest Android 14 QPR2 beta 3, in which a few clues have been spotted as to how the Mountain View Giant may be planning to force an application to occupy 100% of the display in Android 15.
Back in Android 11, Google had announced a new page in the settings named App Compatibility Changes, the purpose of which is just to permit the developers to activate individual system behaviors for their application based on the target API level.
The reports unveiled that initially, by inquiring into the code of Android 14 QPR2 BEta 3, a new change to the compatibility of the application was made called EDGE_TO_EDGE_BY_DEFAULT. The description reads, “Make the app go edge-to-edge by default if the target SDK is Vanilla Ice Cream or higher.”
It is expected that Vanilla Ice Cream is the codename for Android 15, which makes us think that this compatibility change will be applied to applications destined for the forthcoming version of the robot. Considering that Google annually obliges developers to update their apps by implementing the latest APIs, most of the software on the Play Store should target Android 15.
However, at the moment, Google itself has not revealed anything officially yet regarding this change in Android 15. So the reports are based on expectations.
Google’s next major iteration, Android 15, is actively in the developing stage and is expected to stop phones from vibrating while getting a lot of notifications.
Google has recently made Android 15 Beta 1.2 available to download, which has brought some crucial improvements. Now reports are revealing that Android 15 will bring new functionality to enhance the users’ experience, which will force the phone to stop vibrating while getting a lot of notifications.
Android 15’s notification cooldown reduces the volume of repeated notifications from the same application. However, at the moment, it doesn’t stop the phone from vibrating for each notification. However, we anticipate a future update to address this issue.
Speculation suggests that the reporter, while exploring the latest Android 15 Beta 1.2 update, successfully restored the notification cooldown settings page (Settings >> Notifications >> Notification cooldown), which Google had previously hidden from users in Android 15 Beta 1. According to the reports, a new toggle has been added that was previously unavailable: “vibrate when unlocked.” According to the description, this toggle makes it so the device will “only vibrate when [the] screen is unlocked.”
By authorizing this toggle, the phone will avoid vibrating while receiving a ton of successive notifications from the same application. Notification cooldown silences Android 15 repeated notifications from a similar application, but it is possible that it could still vibrate your phone for each one. Apart from this, there’s an option to disable vibration only when your phone is unlocked.
Users will get the power to enable “vibrate when unlocked” for peace and silence. They can disable both “vibrate when unlocked” and notification cooldown entirely to receive all notifications with vibration. Users can change the cooldown to apply only to conversations if they want silence for repetitive chats but notifications for other applications.r
Google is actively preparing for its upcoming version, as demonstrated by the availability of Android 15 Beta 1.2 for download just a few days after the release of Beta 1.1. We anticipate that the stable version of Android 15 will allow you to force apps to go dark, even if they don’t support the feature.
The metrics for 2022 suggest that 81.9% of readers use dark mode on their phones. Google offers support for a system-wide dark mode toggle in Android 14. Despite all of this, some of the applications still don’t have a dark theme, such as the ones from Fitbit or Amazon Shopping, but now the Android 15 update will overcome this lack and let you force these apps to go dark, even if they don’t have a built-in dark theme.
Back in January, Google hid a new’make all apps dark’ toggle under Settings >> Accessibility >> Color and Motion in the Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2. This toggle was not visible by default in Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2, and it was not even visible in Android 15 Beta 1.2.
According to reports, testing revealed that’make all apps dark’ outperforms ‘override force-dark’ in more applications, implying that the current developer opt-out is no longer functional and that the fundamental force-dark algorithm has changed. Android is introducing ‘make all apps dark’, a new accessibility setting that enhances the existing ‘override force-dark’ option and distinguishes itself from color inversion, which causes image distortion.
Currently, Android 15 Beta 1.2 lacks the’make all apps dark’ feature, but Google I/O 2024 next month could see the introduction of this feature in Android 15 Beta 2.
Google has started developing its next big iteration, Android 15. To prepare it for the Android device, the company has already started rolling out the beta updates. Earlier this month, the company rolled out the beta 1 update, which introduced a plethora of new features. However, being a beta update, it comes with a lot of bugs, so to fix them, it introduced the next beta 1.1 update, which fixed a crucial NFC bug. Now that it has brought a new update in the form of the beta 1.2 update, it is also coming with a lot of new bug fixes.
What’s new with the Android 15 beta 1.2 update?
Google has officially announced that the company will roll out the new Android 15 beta 2.1 update, which will provide several new fixes related to the freeze display, fix a system performance issue, resolve a system setting crash when trying to add a fingerprint, and many more. Check out the official changelog below.
Android 15 beta 1.2 update changelog
This minor update to Android 15 Beta 1 includes the following fixes:
- I fixed an issue that sometimes caused apps to freeze and display an “Application Not Responding” message. (Issue #328865524)
- Fixed a system performance issue that caused excessive battery drain in some cases. (Issue #335718464, Issue #335188185)
- Fixed an issue that caused the system Settings app to crash when trying to add a fingerprint. (Issue #334035378, Issue #335481930)
- Fixed an issue that prevented the system back gesture from working in some cases. (Issue #331303569, Issue #334738577)
- Fixed an issue that could cause the screen to flicker repeatedly. (Issue #325555461)
The latest beta update is now live for all the eligible Pixel devices; more specifically, it has started rolling out to the Pixel 6 or nearby devices. The latest update is coming with the firmware version number AP31.240322.027. The latest update is coming with the same April 2024 security patch that has already arrived with previous updates. To check for the new version, you just need to go to the system settings, select software update, touch the system update, and tap the check for updates button. You may have to tap the button more than once to trigger the download, but if all this fails, then you can also manually install the update via official factory image files.