Google Android 15 is all set to feature a number of new capabilities. If you need to share your phone screen during a meeting or live broadcast, the last thing you want to happen is for others to see embarrassing or private messages.
Google Android 15 new features revealed
Google plans to introduce new features in Android 15 to reduce the chance of users accidentally leaking sensitive content when sharing their screen.
Starting from Android version 5.0, third-party applications can call the MediaProjection API to capture the displayed content; Google implements quick screen recording by calling this API in the Quick Settings of the Android 11 system.
Before an app records the phone’s screen, the operating system asks the user whether to allow this and warns them of the consequences. After permission is granted, the operating system displays a continuous recording indicator in the status bar to tell the user that their screen is being recorded.
Google introduced the “disable screen share protections” option in the developer options of the recently released Android 15 Beta 1.1 update, which can disable the running of certain system applications and related notifications during screen sharing.
This feature is controlled by the “sensitive content protection” Flag, and applications using Jetpack Compose, WebView, custom virtual views, and other UI toolkits will call the new API.
The source said that the relevant code does not reveal much information at present, but it is speculated that the sensitive content analysis algorithm will be handled by a separate system service (such as Android System Intelligence).
