by dbadmin | Jun 14, 2024 | Android 15, Android apps, News
Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Android 15 will disable the home screen widget of any app that you kill. This prevents the app from effectively still running when you’re attempting to force-stop it. The widget will be grayed out and won’t start again until you...
by dbadmin | Jun 12, 2024 | Android 15, News
Android 15 is adding a built-in mechanism to protect your device from “juice jacking” attacks. Charging will be allowed when lockdown mode is enabled in Android 15, but USB data access will not. Juice jacking is a largely theoretical problem you don’t really need to...
by dbadmin | Jun 12, 2024 | Android 15, News
Google is updating Android’s latest Easter egg game, which has you fly a spaceship around, to now plant flags when you land on a planet. Amusingly, this update is currently hidden behind a feature flag, meaning it’s a flag for flags. Apart from this change, it doesn’t...
by dbadmin | Jun 4, 2024 | Android 15, News
Google is enabling support for dynamic spatial audio over Bluetooth LE Audio in Android 15. Dynamic spatial audio allows for the direction of sound to change based on the listener’s head movements. Head-tracked spatial audio is already supported over Bluetooth Classic...
by dbadmin | Jun 3, 2024 | Android 15, News
Android 15 will let you set a default note-taking app that can be launched from the lock screen. The default note-taking app can use Android’s content capture API to let users capture all or part of the screen for insertion into a note. Google actually introduced the...
by dbadmin | May 29, 2024 | Accessibility, Android 15, News
Google has announced that the Android 15 update will improve the platform’s support for hearing aids. The latest release will work with hearing aids that support Bluetooth LE Audio. The update will also offer better hearing aid management features like a Quick...