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Google says that it spent the last 6 months on improving the stability, reliability, and performance of the Android Emulator in Android Studio. This initiative, named Project Quartz, has resulted in 30% fewer crashes when using the Android Emulator in the latest stable version of Android Studio, according to data from developers who opted in to sharing crash details. Google also reduced its open issues by 43.5% from 4,605 to 2,605. 17% of these issues were fixed during Quartz while the remainder were closed as either obsolete, previously fixed, or duplicates.

🐧This is HUGE: Android 15 QPR2 confirms Google is adding a Linux Terminal app, finally The new Terminal app will let developers run Linux apps in a virtual machine on their Android device. More details on how this works can be found in my latest article…

🏃Here's how Health Connect will back up your health and fitness data Google rolled out an update to Health Connect that adds a backup & restore menu, but it doesn't work yet. Here's how to access the feature so you're ready when it does, though.

🏃Here's how Health Connect will back up your health and fitness data Google rolled out an update to Health Connect that adds a backup & restore menu, but it doesn't work yet. Here's how to access the feature so you're ready when it does, though.

🏠Google is preparing to bring back a beloved customization feature from Android 11 Android 15 QPR2 may let you customize the shape of home screen icons once again on Pixel phones More details + screenshots of the settings page for this can be found in this article.

Pixel phones get a major kernel upgrade with Android 15 QPR2 All Tensor-powered Pixels are now running Linux kernel 6.1 after updating to Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1! I reported that this kernel upgrade would happen back in January, but it's finally here!

Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 is official! It's available for the Pixel 6 and later, with build ID BP11.241025.006.

Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 introduces the new "mouse keys" feature that I previously discovered. This feature lets you use the numpad on your keyboard to control the mouse cursor. More details here.

Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 has reorganized the touchpad & mouse settings. Instead of having everything on one page, there is now a submenu for pointer & touchpad accessibility, which itself has the new menu for pointer color customization I spotted in the last beta.

🐧This is HUGE: Android 15 QPR2 confirms Google is adding a Linux Terminal app, finally The new Terminal app will let developers run Linux apps in a virtual machine on their Android device. More details on how this works can be found in my latest article for Android Authority.

🔇Android 15 QPR2 transforms Do Not Disturb into customizable Modes Remember that Modes feature I've been telling y'all about? It's here, early, in Android 15 QPR2! More details plus screenshots in my latest article for Android Authority.

🚨 Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 is almost here! GSI images just went live, with build ID BP11.241025.006!