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.

The Terminal app in Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 doesn't work currently, and the reason is because it's currently set up to only install Linux images supplied in a /sdcard/linux/images.tar.gz file.

However, it only does this if the build is debuggable (ro.debuggable=1), which means you need to root your device.

However, even if you do spoof the debuggable property and supply the correct file, it'll still fail to boot because of some permission issue.

This hopefully won't be an issue with the next Android 15 QPR2 beta, though, as the Terminal app in AOSP has newer code that downloads the Linux image from online and doesn't check if the build is debuggable.

If you want to try for yourself, you can download Google's precompiled Debian images from here.

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.