Android 16 improves performance and battery life in its second developer preview

December 19 (Portaltic/EP) –

Google has made the second preview version of Android 16 (DP2) available to software developers, a build that includes changes designed to improve user experience, performance and battery life. with new security and search features in Photo Picker.

The company announced in November that it was planning two launches for 2025 and that it would advance the arrival of Android 16 to the second quarter of the year, instead of reserving it to the second half of the yearas it has done until now.

The first preview version of this operating system arrived in the hands of developers a month ago, which incorporated the latest version of its Privacy Sandbox security feature and new programming interfaces of applications (API).

Now, Google has announced the second view availability developer preview of Android 16, an update that introduces new features, APIs and additional behavioral changes, as noted in your website.

This new version, therefore, introduces changes designed to improve the application experience, improve battery life and increase performance. In this sense, Google has added a new startup component for applications, which allows you to optimize the startup flow, in addition to Haptic APIswhich allow applications to define the amplitude and frequency curves of a haptic effect.

Likewise, it has advanced that starting with this iteration of the OS it will adjust the execution time quota for regular and accelerated jobs according to different factors, for example, the application waiting group in which a certain service is located.

The second developer preview of Android 16 dp2 adds support for robust WiFi location security features, which will be more accurate with WiFi Ranging, on devices that support the 802.11az standard. This allows applications combine greater foresight, scalability, and dynamic protocol programming with security improvements that include encryption based on the AES-256 method.

As to Photo Picker either Photo selectora privacy-preserving feature that displays specific images or videos; The technology company has clarified that this new preview includes new APIs to allow searching from the cloud media provider. This function will be available soon.

Health Connect in the developer preview adds a new data type defined according to the World Health Organization guidelines for ‘moderate’ activity, so if the activity intensity fits this, it will require the start time and completion.

Furthermore, this release also contains updated APIs to support medical records, allowing applications to read and write medical records in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources format. (FHIR) with the explicit consent of the user.

Google has finally remembered that it plans to have another version of Android 16 with new APIs for developers in the fourth quarter of next year and that the main version of the second quarter It will be the only one in 2025 that includes behavioral changes planned events that could affect applications.

The minor version planned for release in the fourth quarter will include feature updates, optimizations and bug fixes but will not have any behavioral changes that affect the application.