Android 15 QPR1 brings one other new technique to cease your display shares

Enhancing safety and privateness was one in every of Google’s greatest priorities for this yr’s Android 15 launch, and one of many options that sorely wanted updating was Android’s display recorder. To repair it, Google launched partial display sharing in Android 15, a function that allows you to report or solid a single app as a substitute of the complete display. Google isn’t achieved with the display recorder, although, because it plans to replace it but once more within the upcoming Android 15 QPR1 launch. As a part of that replace, Google is altering Android in order that it’ll mechanically cease display shares while you lock your telephone.

Final month, Google rolled out Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2, which introduces a significantly better display recording system. Whenever you solid or report your display from the system menu in Android 15 QPR1, you’ll see new standing bar chips that not solely let you know {that a} screencasting or display recording session is ongoing but in addition how lengthy that session has been occurring for. As well as, you possibly can faucet these chips to indicate a dialog that allows you to cease casting or recording the display.

As well as, Android additionally now differentiates between display sharing periods began by the system versus third-party display recording apps. When a third-party app initiates a display sharing session, the display sharing dialog could have a distinct icon and outline that mirror the truth that you’re sharing the display with a selected app as a substitute of Android.

That’s not all, although, as display shares initiated by third-party apps at the moment are mechanically stopped while you lock the system in Android 15 QPR1. In earlier variations of Android, this wasn’t the case, as display shares continued even after you locked the system.

Google just lately up to date its launch notes for Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 to say this variation, which we will verify occurs on our personal Pixel units. The corporate encourages builders to replace their apps in order that they launch assets and replace their UIs when display projection is stopped. Builders can do that by creating an occasion of MediaProjection.Callback after which implementing the callback’s onStop() technique which is known as when display projection stops.

Had Google carried out this variation in earlier variations of Android, it will’ve been a much bigger deal, as earlier variations didn’t have the brand new, expandable standing bar chips. For the reason that new display sharing chips make it doable to finish periods with out exposing your notifications, there’s no must deliberately lock the system to cease the session.

Nevertheless, I can see how this variation might nonetheless be helpful, because it prevents customers from by chance sharing their house screens in the event that they by some means by chance lock their system throughout a display sharing session (your lock display is already hidden from display shares).

On condition that this variation is a part of Android 15 QPR1 and never the bottom Android 15 launch, meaning it received’t be out there on most different Android units till subsequent yr’s Android 16 replace. The identical goes for different Android 15 QPR1 options we noticed, resembling the brand new desktop windowing mode and lock display widgets function for tablets.