On the second day of Google IO 2024, Google launched a brand new beta of Android 15 and introduced a bunch of recent options coming to Android for cell gadgets and TVs. However right this moment’s information isn’t all about Google: Apple additionally unveiled upcoming accessibility options for iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.
And after a barely rocky begin, it’s now open season for emulators within the App Retailer.
Right here’s a roundup of latest tech information from across the internet.
The Second Beta of Android 15 [Android Developers]
Android 15 Beta 2 consists of new privateness and security measures together with a “Non-public house” that requires authentication to launch delicate apps, extra safety towards malware working within the background, and new multitasking choices for big-screen gadgets.
These are simply the options Google highlights in its weblog put up for builders although. Now that the second beta is out, impartial customers are digging by it and uncovering different modifications. You could find a lot of them at 9to5Google or by following Mishaal Rahman.
Mission Gameface launches on Android [Google]
Google’s Mission Gameface is an accessibility app for hands-free gaming that makes use of a digital camera to detect head actions and facial gestures and convert it to enter. Now Google is bringing it to Android as a method to transfer a digital cursor.
Apple publicizes new accessibility options [Apple]
Apple unveils new accessibility options coming later this 12 months to iPhones, iPads, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional together with Eye Monitoring for navigation, Music Haptics to make use of vibrations for deaf and onerous of listening to customers, Vocal Shortcuts and extra.
Every little thing it’s essential to find out about Google TV and Android TV OS [Google]
Google is bringing Android 14 to TVs with updates to Google TV and Android TV. Anticipate efficiency, effectivity, image in image, and accessibility enhancements.
Google says Chrome OS on Android was, sadly, only a enjoyable proof of idea [Android Authority]
Earlier this week we discovered that Google had been holding non-public demonstrations of ChromeOS working in a digital machine on Android telephones, resulting in hypothesis that possibly at some point you’d have the ability to use your Android cellphone like a Chromebox when connecting an exterior show, mouse, and keyboard.
Nevertheless it seems that Google was actually simply utilizing ChromeOS for demonstration functions to showcase the virtualization capabilities of Android 15.
The floodgates are open: Extra emulators arrive within the App Retailer for iPhones and iPads (PS1, PSP, and RetroArch for an entire lot extra)
Apple now lets builders submit (some) emulators to the App Retailer, permitting you to run basic console video games on an iPhone or iPad. Final month the favored Delta emulator made its method to the App Retailer, bringing assist for traditional Nintendo console video games. This week it’s been joined by an entire bunch of further emulators together with the Gamma PS1 emulator, PPSSPP PlayStation Moveable emulator, and RetroArch, which is a multi-console emulator that makes use of a system of various “cores” to allow you to emulate dozens of basic consoles.
Remember the fact that Apple imposes some limitations which will affect efficiency, however most up-to-date iOS gadgets ought to have sufficient uncooked horsepower to deal with older video games fairly nicely.
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