Google Announces Android 15 Beta 3

Google today announced Android 15 Beta 3, an important milestone that marks Platform Stability for the upcoming mobile OS version.

“Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce superior media and AI experiences, take advantage of device form factors, minimize battery impact, maximize smooth app performance, and protect user privacy and security, all on the most diverse lineup of devices,” Android Developer vice president Matthew McCullough writes in the announcement post.

Platform Stability is the milestone at which all APIs and app-facing behaviors are final, allowing developers to use them in their own apps. And mobile apps built with Android 15 capabilities can now be made available through the Google Play Store.

As you would expect given where we are in the schedule, Google has only add a few small changes to Android 15 in this release. It features improved passkeys and Credential Manager experiences that support single-step sign-in support within apps and autofill fallback, and the WebSQL has been deprecated in Android Webview; it was removed from Chrome previously and will be removed from Android over the next year.

Developers and others who want to get started with Android 15 can enroll their supported Pixel phones and devices and other Android devices on the Android website. You can also use system images in the Android Emulator provided with Android Studio. Google recommends the latest pre-release version of Android Studio Koala: There’s a new Feature Drop that supports all the new Android 15 API changes and provides an SDK Upgrade Assistant.

You can learn more on the Android Developer website.