Android 16

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 now supports cloud compilation, a new feature that could speed up new app installs. The goal of cloud compilation is to avoid running the dex2oat tool during app installations by offloading compilation ...

Summary: Android 16 will require devices to support Vulcan’s new Host Image Copy feature. This will improve gaming and 3D graphics performance, and reduce stuttering. Android has been leveraging the more efficient Vulcan API for many years. With Android 16’s ...

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The latest version of the Vulkan graphics API, Vulkan 1.4, introduces a feature called Host Image Copy. A Google engineer says games using Host Image Copy can remove stutter during texture data streaming while ...

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to typically happen between the ...

The Settings app on any phone is pretty important. It’s where you go to make your phone, truly yours. And over the years, that app has gotten pretty bloated, no matter what platform you’re on. And well, Android’s might just ...

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 introduces a new API called SettingsPreferenceService that lets apps contribute their preferences to the Android Settings app. This API lets apps declare which of their own preferences can be read or written ...

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 is nearing the end of its testing period, with Beta 3 arriving last month. Since then, Google has already shared an additional point release, addressing extant bugs. Now Beta 3.2 is landing ...

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority app teardown has revealed that Google is working on an inactivity reboot feature. This security feature would reboot devices if they’ve been locked for three consecutive days. This will likely be ...

Joe Maring / Android Authority As hard as it is to believe, we’re just a few short months away from Android 16’s public release. We’ve had Developer Previews since last November and beta releases since January, and we’re expecting the ...

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR All Pixel phones can now use the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature in Android 16 Beta 3. The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature lets you unlock your Pixel phone even when its screen is off. ...