Google Finally Launches Android 15

mlg , 4 hours ago

Remember when android releases had groundbreaking new features and really cool dessert names?

Good time, good times.

KingJalopy , 4 hours ago

I used to spend hours loading roms on my Nexus. Now I just spend hours removing Google from themselves

lemmeBe , 2 hours ago

Me as well. 😄

sanguinepar , 2 hours ago

Yeah, there was that brief period, maybe 4-6 years where each release had at least something exciting. I guess they’ve just run out of genuinely useful/innovative stuff to add.

m4m4m4m4 , 2 hours ago

I mean, iOS is not doing better in that sense. They both are already mature systems and I think it would be great if they concentrate in polishing and perfecting what they already have (and hope AOSP doesn’t fall into the AI crap) but I guess that’s just me.

TheYang , 1 hour ago

I still wait for the day where smartphones become the only computer for most people.
dock it, (maybe cool it) and the available power is significant.

google is definitely taking steps there with their virtualization work and desktop mode, just slow.
Apple may be too, with their switch to ARM on desktop.

skullgiver , 1 hour ago

New features include satellite support, loudness control, 16 KiB pages, upstreamed support for features like locking/hiding apps, OpenJDK 17, app archiving/unarchiving, making Health Connect actually usable on a system level, native storage for end-to-end encryption keys in the contact system, and finally being able to select the vibration pattern for notifications. A lot of small changes for the end user, some pretty large changes under the hood.

I remember going from Android 4.0 to Android 4.3 and seeing nothing change. Moving from Android 5 to Android 6 was also pretty minor. Even back when I updated Android 2.2 to 2.3 there was very little that actually changed on the OS level.

I do remember major changes, like everyone hating Android 4’s interface, and then everyone hating Android 5’s interface, and then everyone hating Android 7’s interface, and then everyone hating Material You, and then everyone hating gesture controls.

Generally, the “nothing happens” updates seem to go down the best. I’m fine sticking with the Material You redesign for a few updates, change for change’s sake is just programmer busywork.

Ghoelian , 13 minutes ago

They still have the dessert names, they just don’t use them in their marketing. This one is called vanilla ice cream, android 14 was upside down cake or something iirc, 13 was tiramisu.

10-12 don’t seem to have dessert names for some reason though. Those were just q, r, and s.

Boeddabart , 2 hours ago

This is probably the least exciting Android “update” to date, for me at least. These are basically all just options that could’ve been added with regular updates. Charging to 80% is nice tho. Hate the new, Apple-like, default bluetooth setting (thank god that you can turn that off, although it doesn’t look good for the future…)

JohnnyWishbone , 2 hours ago

I hope to god they fix the gestures with 3rd party launchers bug.

lowleveldata , 1 minute ago

Can I set reminders with text input with Google assistant yet?