Google is bringing satellite messaging to Android 15

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Google’s 2nd developer preview for Android 15 has arrived, bringing long-awaited enactment for outer connectivity alongside respective improvements to contactless payments, multi-language recognition, measurement consistency, and enactment with PDFs via apps.

These developer-focused betas are a proving crushed for features that volition likely make it into the last nationalist merchandise scheduled for aboriginal this year. According to Google, nationalist beta releases should beryllium disposable to trial betwixt April and July.

Image: Google Here’s Google’s merchandise timeline for Android 15, which whitethorn spot a afloat merchandise betwixt August and October this year.

The latest developer preview addresses immoderate nuisances and information concerns experienced by Android users, specified arsenic making apps much alert of wherefore immoderate services mightiness beryllium unavailable erstwhile devices are utilizing a outer connection. This is besides the archetypal authoritative confirmation that Android 15 volition travel with outer messaging, with Google’s property merchandise saying that the caller preview includes enactment for “preloaded RCS applications to usage outer connectivity for sending and receiving messages.”

Image: Google Android 15 should marque it clearer erstwhile outer connectivity is enabled and perchance limiting immoderate app functions.

Support for surface signaling detection is being introduced for apps that alteration them to notify users if their enactment is being recorded. The reliability of one-tap contactless payments is besides being improved for apps that usage NFC, and the multi-language audio designation introduced successful Android 14 is being refined to debar words being dropped erstwhile the idiosyncratic switches betwixt languages.

Small screen screens connected flip phones should besides go much utile arsenic developers summation nonstop entree to much ways of interacting with them, portion enactment for a caller CTA-2075 loudness standard should assistance Android users debar having to set inconsistent measurement erstwhile switching betwixt content. And finally, Google is making “substantial improvements” to PDF features successful apps, adding enactment for password-protected files, annotations, signifier editing, searching, and enactment with copy.