On September 3, the Android mobile operating system development team published the source code version 10.
What's new in this release:
- Support for resizing the output image in apps for foldable devices when opening or closing them.
- Support for 5G networks and expansion of the corresponding API.
- Live Caption feature, which converts speech to text in any app. This feature will be especially useful for individuals with significant hearing impairments.
- Smart Reply in notifications — the ability to choose an action in notifications that is contextually related to the notification content. For example, you can open Google Maps or a similar app if an address is included in the notification.
- Dark mode
- Gesture navigation — a new navigation system that allows users to use gestures instead of the traditional home, back, and overview buttons.
- New privacy settings
- Default use of TLS 1.3, Adiantum for encrypting user data, and other security-related changes.
- Support for Dynamic Depth for photographs.
- Ability to capture audio from any app
- Support for AV1, Opus, HDR10+ codecs.
- Built-in MIDI API for applications written in C++. Enables interaction with MIDI devices through the NDK.
- Vulkan everywhere — Vulkan 1.1 is now required for Android to run on 64-bit devices and recommended for 32-bit.
- Optimization and various changes in WiFi functionality, such as Adaptive WiFi mode, along with changes to the API for handling network connections.
- Optimization of Android RunTime
- Neural Networks API 1.2
Source: linux.org.ru
