動作の変更点: すべてのアプリ

Android 16 プラットフォームには、アプリに影響する可能性がある動作変更が含まれています。下記の動作変更は、targetSdkVersion に関係なく、Android 16 上で稼働するすべてのアプリに適用されます。該当する場合は、アプリをテストし、必要に応じて修正して、適切に対応する必要があります。

Android 16 をターゲットとするアプリにのみ影響する動作変更のリストも必ずご確認ください。

コア機能

Android 16（API レベル 36）には、Android システムのさまざまなコア機能を変更または拡張する次の変更が含まれています。

JobScheduler の割り当ての最適化

Starting in Android 16, we're adjusting regular and expedited job execution runtime quota based on the following factors:

  • Which app standby bucket the application is in: in Android 16, active standby buckets will start being enforced by a generous runtime quota.
  • If the job starts execution while the app is in a top state: in Android 16, Jobs started while the app is visible to the user and continues after the app becomes invisible, will adhere to the job runtime quota.
  • If the job is executing while running a Foreground Service: in Android 16, jobs that are executing while concurrently with a foreground service will adhere to the job runtime quota. If you're leveraging jobs for user initiated data transfer, consider using user initiated data transfer jobs instead.

This change impacts tasks scheduled using WorkManager, JobScheduler, and DownloadManager. To debug why a job was stopped, we recommend logging why your job was stopped by calling WorkInfo.getStopReason() (for JobScheduler jobs, call JobParameters.getStopReason()).

For more information on battery-optimal best practices, refer to guidance on optimize battery use for task scheduling APIs.

We also recommend leveraging the new JobScheduler#getPendingJobReasonsHistory API introduced in Android 16 to understand why a job has not executed.

Testing

To test your app's behavior, you can enable override of certain job quota optimizations as long as the app is running on an Android 16 device.

To disable enforcement of "top state will adhere to job runtime quota", run the following adb command:

adb shell am compat enable OVERRIDE_QUOTA_ENFORCEMENT_TO_TOP_STARTED_JOBS APP_PACKAGE_NAME

To disable enforcement of "jobs that are executing while concurrently with a foreground service will adhere to the job runtime quota", run the following adb command:

adb shell am compat enable OVERRIDE_QUOTA_ENFORCEMENT_TO_FGS_JOBS APP_PACKAGE_NAME

To test certain app standby bucket behavior, you can set the app standby bucket of your app using the following adb command:

adb shell am set-standby-bucket APP_PACKAGE_NAME active|working_set|frequent|rare|restricted

To understand the app standby bucket your app is in, you can get the app standby bucket of your app using the following adb command:

adb shell am get-standby-bucket APP_PACKAGE_NAME

放棄された空のジョブの停止理由

放棄されたジョブは、ジョブに関連付けられた JobParameters オブジェクトがガベージ コレクションされたものの、JobService#jobFinished(JobParameters, boolean) が呼び出されず、ジョブの完了が通知されていない場合に発生します。これは、アプリが認識せずにジョブが実行され、スケジュールが変更されている可能性があることを示します。

JobScheduler に依存するアプリは、JobParameters オブジェクトへの強参照を維持しないため、タイムアウトには STOP_REASON_TIMEOUT ではなく、新しいジョブ停止理由 STOP_REASON_TIMEOUT_ABANDONED が付与されます。

新しい放棄された停止理由が頻繁に発生する場合、システムは緩和策を講じてジョブの頻度を減らします。

アプリは、新しい停止理由を使用して、放棄されたジョブを検出して削減する必要があります。

WorkManager、AsyncTask、DownloadManager を使用している場合、これらの API はアプリに代わってジョブのライフサイクルを管理するため、影響を受けません。

JobInfo#setImportantWhileForeground のサポートを完全に終了

JobInfo.Builder#setImportantWhileForeground(boolean) メソッドは、スケジュール設定アプリがフォアグラウンドにある間、またはバックグラウンドの制限を一時的に免除されている間のジョブの重要度を示します。

このメソッドは、Android 12（API レベル 31）で非推奨になりました。Android 16 以降では、このメソッドは効果的に機能しなくなり、このメソッドの呼び出しは無視されます。

この機能の削除は JobInfo#isImportantWhileForeground() にも適用されます。Android 16 以降では、メソッドが呼び出されると、メソッドは false を返します。

順序付きブロードキャストの優先度スコープがグローバルではなくなった

Android apps are allowed to define priorities on broadcast receivers to control the order in which the receivers receive and process the broadcast. For manifest-declared receivers, apps can use the android:priority attribute to define the priority and for context-registered receivers, apps can use the IntentFilter#setPriority() API to define the priority. When a broadcast is sent, the system delivers it to receivers in order of their priority, from highest to lowest.

In Android 16, broadcast delivery order using the android:priority attribute or IntentFilter#setPriority() across different processes will not be guaranteed. Broadcast priorities will only be respected within the same application process rather than across all processes.

Also, broadcast priorities will be automatically confined to the range (SYSTEM_LOW_PRIORITY + 1, SYSTEM_HIGH_PRIORITY - 1). Only system components will be allowed to set SYSTEM_LOW_PRIORITY, SYSTEM_HIGH_PRIORITY as broadcast priority.

Your app might be impacted if it does either of the following:

  1. Your application has declared multiple processes with the same broadcast intent, and has expectations around receiving those intents in a certain order based on the priority.
  2. Your application process interacts with other processes and has expectations around receiving a broadcast intent in a certain order.

If the processes need to coordinate with each other, they should communicate using other coordination channels.

ART 内部の変更

Android 16 includes the latest updates to the Android Runtime (ART) that improve the Android Runtime's (ART's) performance and provide support for additional Java features. Through Google Play System updates, these improvements are also available to over a billion devices running Android 12 (API level 31) and higher.

As these changes are released, libraries and app code that rely on internal structures of ART might not work correctly on devices running Android 16, along with earlier Android versions that update the ART module through Google Play system updates.

Relying on internal structures (such as non-SDK interfaces) can always lead to compatibility problems, but it's particularly important to avoid relying on code (or libraries containing code) that leverages internal ART structures, since ART changes aren't tied to the platform version the device is running on and they go out to over a billion devices through Google Play system updates.

All developers should check whether their app is impacted by testing their apps thoroughly on Android 16. In addition, check the known issues to see if your app depends on any libraries that we've identified that rely on internal ART structures. If you do have app code or library dependencies that are affected, seek public API alternatives whenever possible and request public APIs for new use cases by creating a feature request in our issue tracker.

16 KB ページサイズの互換モード

Android 15 introduced support for 16 KB memory pages to optimize performance of the platform. Android 16 adds a compatibility mode, allowing some apps built for 4 KB memory pages to run on a device configured for 16 KB memory pages.

When your app is running on a device with Android 16 or higher, if Android detects that your app has 4 KB aligned memory pages, it automatically uses compatibility mode and display a notification dialog to the user. Setting the android:pageSizeCompat property in the AndroidManifest.xml to enable the backwards compatibility mode will prevent the display of the dialog when your app launches. To use the android:pageSizeCompat property, compile your app using the Android 16 SDK.

For best performance, reliability, and stability, your app should still be 16 KB aligned. Check out our recent blog post on updating your apps to support 16 KB memory pages for more details.

The compatibility mode dialog that displays when the system detects that a 4 KB-aligned app could run more optimally if 16 KB aligned.

ユーザー エクスペリエンスとシステム UI

Android 16（API レベル 36）では、より一貫性があり直感的なユーザー エクスペリエンスを実現するために、以下の変更が加えられています。

ユーザー補助の妨げになる通知の非推奨

Android 16 では、announceForAccessibility の使用や TYPE_ANNOUNCEMENT ユーザー補助イベントのディスパッチを特徴とするユーザー補助通知が非推奨になりました。これにより、TalkBack と Android のスクリーン リーダーのユーザーに対して一貫性のないユーザー エクスペリエンスが生じる可能性があります。代替手段を使用すると、さまざまな Android 支援技術で幅広いユーザーのニーズに対応できます。

代替手段の例:

非推奨の announceForAccessibility API のリファレンス ドキュメントには、推奨される代替方法の詳細が記載されています。

3 ボタン ナビゲーションのサポート

Android 16 brings predictive back support to the 3-button navigation for apps that have properly migrated to predictive back. Long-pressing the back button initiates a predictive back animation, giving you a preview of where the back swipe takes you.

This behavior applies across all areas of the system that support predictive back animations, including the system animations (back-to-home, cross-task, and cross-activity).

The predictive back animations in 3-button navigation mode.

デバイスのフォーム ファクタ

Android 16（API レベル 36）では、仮想デバイス所有者がディスプレイに投影するアプリに対して、次の変更が加えられています。

仮想デバイス所有者のオーバーライド

A virtual device owner is a trusted or privileged app that creates and manages a virtual device. Virtual device owners run apps on a virtual device and then project the apps to the display of a remote device, such as a personal computer, virtual reality device, or car infotainment system. The virtual device owner is on a local device, such as a mobile phone.

Virtual device owner on phone creates virtual device that projects app to remote display.

Per-app overrides

On devices running Android 16 (API level 36), virtual device owners can override app settings on select virtual devices that the virtual device owners manage. For example, to improve app layout, a virtual device owner can ignore orientation, aspect ratio, and resizability restrictions when projecting apps onto an external display.

Common breaking changes

The Android 16 behavior might impact your app's UI on large screen form factors such as car displays or Chromebooks, especially layouts that were designed for small displays in portrait orientation. To learn how to make your app adaptive for all device form factors, see About adaptive layouts.

References

Companion app streaming

セキュリティ

Android 16（API レベル 36）では、システムのセキュリティを強化し、悪意のあるアプリからアプリとユーザーを保護するための変更が加えられています。

インテントのリダイレクト攻撃に対するセキュリティを強化

Android 16 provides default security against general Intent redirection attacks, with minimum compatibility and developer changes required.

We are introducing by-default security hardening solutions to Intent redirection exploits. In most cases, apps that use intents normally won't experience any compatibility issues; we've gathered metrics throughout our development process to monitor which apps might experience breakages.

Intent redirection in Android occurs when an attacker can partly or fully control the contents of an intent used to launch a new component in the context of a vulnerable app, while the victim app launches an untrusted sub-level intent in an extras field of an ("top-level") Intent. This can lead to the attacker app launching private components in the context of the victim app, triggering privileged actions, or gaining URI access to sensitive data, potentially leading to data theft and arbitrary code execution.

Opt out of Intent redirection handling

Android 16 introduces a new API that allows apps to opt out of launch security protections. This might be necessary in specific cases where the default security behavior interferes with legitimate app use cases.

For applications compiling against Android 16 (API level 36) SDK or higher

You can directly use the removeLaunchSecurityProtection() method on the Intent object.

val i = intent
val iSublevel: Intent? = i.getParcelableExtra("sub_intent")
iSublevel?.removeLaunchSecurityProtection() // Opt out from hardening
iSublevel?.let { startActivity(it) }
For applications compiling against Android 15 (API level 35) or lower

While not recommended, you can use reflection to access the removeLaunchSecurityProtection() method.

val i = intent
val iSublevel: Intent? = i.getParcelableExtra("sub_intent", Intent::class.java)
try {
    val removeLaunchSecurityProtection = Intent::class.java.getDeclaredMethod("removeLaunchSecurityProtection")
    removeLaunchSecurityProtection.invoke(iSublevel)
} catch (e: Exception) {
    // Handle the exception, e.g., log it
} // Opt-out from the security hardening using reflection
iSublevel?.let { startActivity(it) }

接続

Android 16（API レベル 36）では、Bluetooth スタックに次の変更が加えられて、周辺機器との接続が改善されています。

債券の損失の処理を改善

Starting in Android 16, the Bluetooth stack has been updated to improve security and user experience when a remote bond loss is detected. Previously, the system would automatically remove the bond and initiate a new pairing process, which could lead to unintentional re-pairing. We have seen in many instances apps not taking care of the bond loss event in a consistent way.

To unify the experience, Android 16 improved the bond loss handling to the system. If a previously bonded Bluetooth device could not be authenticated upon reconnection, the system will disconnect the link, retain local bond information, and display a system dialog informing users of the bond loss and directing them to re-pair.