Android 15 Developer Preview is now available for the number of Google Pixel devices. The latest Developer Preview shows us what the next Android version will look like.
The Developer Preview version is ideally built for developers to test their apps and make them compatible with Android 15 once the stable version is released later this year. The Developer Preview 1, Google is reassessing its focus on privacy and security again.
Android 15 Developer Preview: What’s New?
With the latest Android 15, Google is bringing Android AD services up to extension level 10, incorporating the latest version of the Privacy Sandbox on Android. The new FileIntegrityManager APIs allow files to be protected by custom cryptographic signatures making sure that data can’t be tampered with or corrupted.
Android 15 brings Android 14’s Health Connect platform and share app-collected health and fitness data. This new update adds support for new data types across fitness, nutrition, and more.
Android 15 also get support for partial screen sharing so users can share or record just an app window rather than the entire device screen. Once you tap on the screen record button, you can choose between “A single app” or “Entire screen” options. This is similar to the screen-sharing options we have seen on Google Meet or Microsoft Teams.
To get more control over the camera’s hardware, Google has added a Low light enhancements option that gives control to boost the brightness and advanced flash strength adjustments to precisely control the flash intensity.
Android 15 extends (Universal MIDI Packets) UMP support to virtual MIDI apps, enabling composition apps to control synthesizer apps as a virtual MIDI 2.0 device.
On supported devices, Android 15 will add new Android Dynamic Performance Framework (ADPF) capabilities that will allow apps and games to adjust the power efficiency and improve CPU and GPU frequencies to best meet workload demands.