Google is putting AI everywhere. Or at least that’s what it seems from the outside. What used to be Bard and now Gemini is gaining weight in Google’s strategy to conquer the world and artificial intelligence… except for its upcoming mobile operating system.
In a published post on Friday by Vice President of Engineering, Dave Burke, the inclusion of the latest version of Privacy Sandbox in Android was announced, an addition that offers both “privacy to the user” and “effective and personalized advertising experiences for mobile applications”.
Burke was also excited about the addition of the 10 Android 14 extensions around Health Connect by Android, as it “adds support for new types of fitness, nutrition, and much more data.”
Partially sharing the screen is another novelty: allowing users to record a window instead of the entire screen. Burke mentioned the increased demand for large Android screens in tablet, foldable, and foldable formats, which surely explains why partially sharing the screen makes sense.
And this is how they think about energy efficiency in Android 15:
- An energy efficiency mode for track sessions indicating that their associated threads should prioritize energy saving over performance: ideal for long-running background workloads.
- The duration of GPU and CPU work can be indicated in suggestion sessions, allowing the system to jointly adjust CPU and GPU frequencies to better meet workload demands.
- Thermal space thresholds to interpret possible thermal throttling state based on space prediction.
According to Burke, the developer preview offers “everything you need to test Android 15 features, test your applications, and provide us with your feedback”.
And, as you may have noticed, they don’t mention AI at any point, which seems like a statement of intent. However, it would be strange not to see artificial intelligence, once it is officially launched, considering we are talking about Google.
