Google Delivers the First Android 15 Beta

Google today issued the first beta release of Android 15 for developers and early adopters. It’s available on supported Pixel devices and in emulation.

“With the progress we’ve made refining the features and stability of Android 15, it’s time to open the experience up to both developers and early adopters, so you can now enroll any supported Pixel device here to get this and future Android 15 Beta and feature drop Beta updates over-the-air,” Google vice president Dave Burke writes in the announcement post. “Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity, give users a premium app experience, protect user privacy and security, and make your app accessible to as many people as possible — all in a vibrant and diverse ecosystem of devices, silicon partners, and carriers.”

Android 15 Beta 1 displays apps edge-to-edge by default, meaning that the system bars are transparent, providing a more seamless look, plus improved NFC capabilities, new text justification features for Chinese, Japanese, and other languages, app archiving, new app-managed profiling features, end-to-end encryption for cryptographic keys, secure background activity launches, and other updates. It also includes the final SDK and NDK APIs and app-facing behaviors for developers.

Google expects Android 15 to reach the Platform Stability milestone in June and then the final release “several months” later, probably in August or September. (You can read more about the schedule here.)

Android 15 Beta 1 can be installed on any supported Pixel device , including Pixel 5a and newer phones, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet. Google recommends that developers use the latest beta version of Android Studio Jellyfish, which also provides Android 15 beta system images in emulation.

You can learn more on the Android Developer website.