Now in Android: 121 – Android Studio Narwhal 3, Android 16 QPR2 beta, and more!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

DAN GALPIN: I'm Dan Galpin for Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development.

Today, we have Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1, the Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop, Jetpack Compose 1.9, Media3 1.8, shape morphing and Autofill and Compose, and much more.

The first beta of Android 16 QPR2 is now available, the inaugural Android release with an Android minor SDK version.

It includes new APIs that extend platform features but cannot introduce target SDK-version-gated behavior changes, minimizing the amount you need to test your apps against it.

Highlights of the release include an expanded dark theme feature that can intelligently invert light-themed apps to improve accessibility and battery life, a new interactive chooser session that keeps your app's UI active while the share sheet is open, support for annotating and editing PDF documents, support for automatically generating monochrome-themed app icons,

a new display topology API that provides information on how multiple displays are arranged, new UI automation APIs that enable you to take screenshots on nondefault displays,