Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus 13 recently received the Android 16 beta 2 update, intended for developers and advanced users. This update improves the battery charging limit feature by removing the fixed 80% limit. Instead, users can customize ...
Summary: Xiaomi has reportedly released the Android 16 Developer Preview for the Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 14T Pro. The latest update allows developers to test their apps on the new OS. If they want to install the update, you must ...
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus has released Android 16 Beta 2 for the OnePlus 13, making it the first non-Pixel device to receive the new platform update. However, the build is only intended for developers and advanced users, ...
Summary: Android 16 is set to speed up app installations with a new “cloud compilation” feature that offloads parts of the process to the cloud. This should help apps install faster, especially on lower-end devices, though we’ll have to wait ...
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 ...
