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

Bettering safety and privateness was one in all Google’s largest 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 permits you to report or solid a single app as a substitute of the complete display. Google isn’t carried out 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 robotically cease display shares once you lock your telephone.

Final month, Google rolled out Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2, which introduces a a lot better display recording system. If 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 additionally how lengthy that session has been occurring for. As well as, you possibly can faucet these chips to indicate a dialog that permits 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 can have a special icon and outline that mirror the truth that you’re sharing the display with a specific app as a substitute of Android.

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

Google not too long ago up to date its launch notes for Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 to say this alteration, which we will affirm occurs on our personal Pixel gadgets. The corporate encourages builders to replace their apps in order that they launch sources 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() methodology which is named when display projection stops.

Had Google applied this alteration in earlier variations of Android, it might’ve been an even bigger deal, as earlier variations didn’t have the brand new, expandable standing bar chips. Because the new display sharing chips make it doable to finish periods with out exposing your notifications, there’s no have to deliberately lock the gadget to cease the session.

Nevertheless, I can see how this alteration might nonetheless be helpful, because it prevents customers from by accident sharing their residence screens in the event that they someway by accident lock their gadget throughout a display sharing session (your lock display is already hidden from display shares).

Provided that this alteration is a part of Android 15 QPR1 and never the bottom Android 15 launch, which means it gained’t be out there on most different Android gadgets till subsequent yr’s Android 16 replace. The identical goes for different Android 15 QPR1 options we noticed, corresponding to the brand new desktop windowing mode and lock display widgets function for tablets.