Android 15
Android 15 Developer Preview Official Now: What’s New with the First Update
Android 15 is the next major software for Android devices, and it will be available this year. To make it optimized and stable for a seamless experience, Google has started preparing for it. The company has begun to provide the first developer preview of Android 15.
For your information, the Developer Preview is a very raw software update that is only significant for developers who want to customize or develop new applications for Android devices, as well as those who can also give feedback to make more new changes for Galaxy devices.
Android 15 brings new security enhancements
The First Android 15 Developer Preview has brought several new optimizations and new features that will be the basis for Android development. It has enhanced the privacy and security of the devices with several new improvements, such as providing Android AD services to extension level 10. With this, it will provide more personalized advertising and at the same time take care of user privacy.
The Health Connect integrates Android 14 extension 10 and makes the environment more protected. The data will be more secure as File Integrity Management has grabbed a new API that will provide a new FS Verify feature, which will make the files more protected and ensure that they cannot be tampered with or corrupted. Now, Android devices will also get a partial screen feature, where users can share or record just an app window rather than the entire device screen.
Google takes its performance one step ahead
With Android 15, Google will continue the power management and enhancements for the devices. It has evolved the ADPF (Android Dynamic Performance Framework). With this, the company will introduce some new capabilities like a power efficiency mode, new management for GPU and CPU duration for balancing the workload, and also all new thermal headroom thresholds.
Support for creators
Google has added manual camera controls for the extension to give third-party apps for battery photography hardware. This will help the application get more quality images for improvements to flag intensity control. To get more information about the latest Android 15 DP 1, you can check the official changelog through this link.
Android 15 Developer Preview Compatible Devices
Android 15 Developer Preview is compatible with use on select Pixel devices, including the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, Pixel 8, and Pixel 8 Pro. Along with these, the device will also be available on PC via an Android emulator or a project-compatible device.
When will Android 15 be available for all?
As this is just the beginning of the journey for Android 15, it will have come a long way. As per the road map shared by Google, it indicates that there will be a total of two developer previews available, with the second one being available in March, and after that, the company will start a beta program and give at least four beta updates between April and July. Finally, after the end of July, the company will release Android 15, and it is obvious that initially it will be available for the Pixel devices, then gradually, depending on the OEMs, the update will be distributed on other Android devices.
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.