by dbadmin | Apr 4, 2025 | Android 16, News
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 also halving memory use. Devices launching with chipset...
by dbadmin | Apr 4, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, News
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 app and codec process, thereby reducing CPU...
by dbadmin | Apr 3, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, News
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 by Android Settings, which currently has no...
by dbadmin | Apr 2, 2025 | Android 16, Google, News
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 to fix a few more glitches, including issues with haptics and power...
by dbadmin | Mar 31, 2025 | Android, Android 16, Android Security, Authority Insights, News
Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority 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 part of...
by dbadmin | Mar 30, 2025 | Android, Android 16, Features, Google
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 final release to be ready in May or June. So far, the update...
