功能和 API

Android 16 面向开发者引入了一些出色的新功能和 API。以下部分总结了这些功能，可帮助您开始使用相关 API。

如需详细了解新增、修改和移除的 API，请参阅 API 差异报告。如需详细了解新的 API，请访问 Android API 参考文档，新 API 会突出显示以方便查看。

您还应查看平台变更可能会在哪些方面影响您的应用。如需了解详情，请参阅以下页面：

• 对以 Android 16 为目标平台的应用有影响的行为变更
• 无论 targetSdkVersion 如何，都会影响所有应用的行为变更。

核心功能

Android 包含可扩展 Android 系统核心功能的新 API。

2025 年发布了两个 Android API

• This preview is for the next major release of Android with a planned launch in Q2 of 2025. This release is similar to all of our API releases in the past, where we can have planned behavior changes that are often tied to a targetSdkVersion.
• We're planning the major release a quarter earlier (Q2 rather than Q3 in prior years) to better align with the schedule of device launches across our ecosystem, so more devices can get the major release of Android sooner. With the major release coming in Q2, you'll need to do your annual compatibility testing a few months earlier than in previous years to make sure your apps are ready.
• We plan to have another release in Q4 of 2025 which also will include new developer APIs. The Q2 major release will be the only release in 2025 to include planned behavior changes that could affect apps.

In addition to new developer APIs, the Q4 minor release will pick up feature updates, optimizations, and bug fixes; it will not include any app-impacting behavior changes.

We'll continue to have quarterly Android releases. The Q1 and Q3 updates in-between the API releases will provide incremental updates to help ensure continuous quality. We're actively working with our device partners to bring the Q2 release to as many devices as possible.

Using new APIs with major and minor releases

Guarding a code block with a check for API level is done today using the SDK_INT constant with VERSION_CODES. This will continue to be supported for major Android releases.

if (SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.BAKLAVA) {
  // Use APIs introduced in Android 16
}

The new SDK_INT_FULL constant can be used for API checks against both major and minor versions with the new VERSION_CODES_FULL enumeration.

if (SDK_INT_FULL >= VERSION_CODES_FULL.[MAJOR or MINOR RELEASE]) {
  // Use APIs introduced in a major or minor release
}

You can also use the Build.getMinorSdkVersion() method to get just the minor SDK version.

val minorSdkVersion = Build.getMinorSdkVersion(VERSION_CODES_FULL.BAKLAVA)

These APIs have not yet been finalized and are subject to change, so please send us feedback if you have any concerns.

Note: There's no change to the target API level requirements and the associated dates for apps in Google Play; our plans are for one annual requirement each year, and that will be tied to the major API level.

用户体验和系统界面

Android 16 让应用开发者和用户可以更灵活地控制设备配置，以满足他们的需求。

以进度为中心的通知

Android 16 引入了以进度为中心的通知，可帮助用户顺畅地跟踪用户发起的端到端历程。

Notification.ProgressStyle 是一种新的通知样式，可让您创建以进度为中心的通知。主要用例包括共享车辆、送货和导航。在 Notification.ProgressStyle 类中，您可以使用点和细分来表示用户体验历程中的状态和里程碑。

To learn more, see the Progress-centric notifications documentation page.

锁屏上显示的以进度为中心的通知。

在通知栏中显示的以进度为中心的通知。

预测性返回更新

Android 16 adds new APIs to help you enable predictive back system animations in gesture navigation such as the back-to-home animation. Registering the onBackInvokedCallback with the new PRIORITY_SYSTEM_NAVIGATION_OBSERVER allows your app to receive the regular onBackInvoked call whenever the system handles a back navigation without impacting the normal back navigation flow.

Android 16 additionally adds the finishAndRemoveTaskCallback() and moveTaskToBackCallback. By registering these callbacks with the OnBackInvokedDispatcher, the system can trigger specific behaviors and play corresponding ahead-of-time animations when the back gesture is invoked.

更丰富的触感反馈

Android has exposed control over the haptic actuator ever since its inception.

Android 11 added support for more complex haptic effects that more advanced actuators could support through VibrationEffect.Compositions of device-defined semantic primitives.

Android 16 adds haptic APIs that let apps define the amplitude and frequency curves of a haptic effect while abstracting away differences between device capabilities.

开发者工作效率和工具

虽然我们为提高开发者效率所做的大部分工作都集中在 Android Studio、Jetpack Compose 和 Android Jetpack 库等工具上，但我们始终在寻找各种方法，通过平台帮助您实现愿景。

动态壁纸的内容处理

In Android 16, the live wallpaper framework is gaining a new content API to address the challenges of dynamic, user-driven wallpapers. Currently, live wallpapers incorporating user-provided content require complex, service-specific implementations. Android 16 introduces WallpaperDescription and WallpaperInstance. WallpaperDescription lets you identify distinct instances of a live wallpaper from the same service. For example, a wallpaper that has instances on both the home screen and on the lock screen may have unique content in both places. The wallpaper picker and WallpaperManager use this metadata to better present wallpapers to users, streamlining the process for you to create diverse and personalized live wallpaper experiences.

性能和电池

Android 16 引入了一些 API，可帮助您收集有关应用的数据分析。

系统触发的性能分析

ProfilingManager 在 Android 15 中添加，让应用能够在现场使用 Perfetto 请求收集性能数据。不过，由于此性能分析必须从应用启动，因此应用很难或根本无法捕获启动或 ANR 等关键流程。

为此，Android 16 向 ProfilingManager 引入了系统触发的性能分析。应用可以注册接收特定触发器（例如冷启动 reportFullyDrawn 或 ANR）轨迹的兴趣，然后系统会代表应用启动和停止轨迹。轨迹完成后，结果会传送到应用的数据目录。

在 ApplicationStartInfo 中启动组件

ApplicationStartInfo was added in Android 15, allowing an app to see reasons for process start, start type, start times, throttling, and other useful diagnostic data. Android 16 adds getStartComponent() to distinguish what component type triggered the start, which can be helpful for optimizing the startup flow of your app.

改进了作业自省

JobScheduler#getPendingJobReason() API 会返回作业可能处于待处理状态的原因。不过，作业处于待处理状态的原因可能有多种。

在 Android 16 中，我们引入了一个新 API JobScheduler#getPendingJobReasons(int jobId)，该 API 会返回作业处于待处理状态的多种原因，包括开发者设置的显式约束条件和系统设置的隐式约束条件。

我们还引入了 JobScheduler#getPendingJobReasonsHistory(int jobId)，用于返回最新约束条件更改的列表。

我们建议您使用该 API 来调试作业可能无法执行的原因，尤其是在您发现某些任务的成功率降低或某些作业完成延迟存在 bug 时。例如，未能在后台更新微件，或在应用启动之前未能调用预加载作业。

这还有助于您更好地了解某些作业是否因系统定义的约束条件而无法完成，而不是因明确设置的约束条件而无法完成。

自适应刷新率

Android 15 中引入的自适应刷新率 (ARR) 可让受支持硬件上的显示屏刷新率使用离散的 VSync 步长来适应内容帧速率。这不仅降低了功耗，还无需进行可能导致卡顿的模式切换。

Android 16 引入了 hasArrSupport() 和 getSuggestedFrameRate(int)，同时恢复了 getSupportedRefreshRates()，以便您的应用更轻松地利用 ARR。RecyclerView 1.4 在从快速滑动或平滑滚动中稳定下来时会在内部支持 ARR，我们将继续努力，将 ARR 支持添加到更多 Jetpack 库中。这篇帧速率文章介绍了许多可用于设置帧速率的 API，以便您的应用可以直接使用 ARR。

ADPF 中的 Headroom API

SystemHealthManager 引入了 getCpuHeadroom 和 getGpuHeadroom API，旨在为游戏和资源密集型应用提供可用 CPU 和 GPU 资源的估算值。通过这些方法，您可以评估应用或游戏如何以最佳方式改善系统运行状况，尤其是在与用于检测热节流的其他 Android 动态性能框架 (ADPF) API 搭配使用时。

在受支持的设备上使用 CpuHeadroomParams 和 GpuHeadroomParams，您可以自定义用于计算余量的时间范围，并在平均资源可用性或最低资源可用性之间进行选择。这有助于您相应地减少 CPU 或 GPU 资源用量，从而提升用户体验并延长电池续航时间。

无障碍

Android 16 添加了新的无障碍功能 API 和功能，可帮助您面向每位用户提供应用。

改进了无障碍功能 API

Android 16 添加了其他 API 来增强界面语义，这有助于为依赖于无障碍服务（例如 TalkBack）的用户提高一致性。

为文字添加轮廓，以最大限度地提高文字对比度

视力较低的用户对对比度的敏感度通常较低，因此很难将对象与背景区分开来。为了帮助这些用户，Android 16 引入了轮廓文本，取代了高对比度文本，后者会在文本周围绘制较大的对比度区域，以大大提高可辨性。

Android 16 包含新的 AccessibilityManager API，可让您的应用检查或注册监听器，以查看此模式是否已启用。这主要适用于 Compose 等界面工具包，以提供类似的视觉体验。如果您维护界面工具包库，或者您的应用执行绕过 android.text.Layout 类的自定义文本渲染，则可以使用此方法来了解何时启用轮廓文本。

Android 16 推出新的轮廓文本无障碍功能前后，对比度更高的文本

向 TtsSpan 添加了时长

Android 16 使用 TYPE_DURATION 扩展了 TtsSpan，其中包含 ARG_HOURS、ARG_MINUTES 和 ARG_SECONDS。这样，您就可以直接为时长添加注释，确保通过 TalkBack 等服务获得准确且一致的文本转语音输出。

支持具有多个标签的元素

Android 目前允许界面元素从其他元素派生其无障碍功能标签，现在还支持关联多个标签，这是 Web 内容中常见的情况。通过在 AccessibilityNodeInfo 中引入基于列表的 API，Android 可以直接支持这些多标签关系。在进行这项更改的过程中，我们已弃用 AccessibilityNodeInfo#setLabeledBy 和 #getLabeledBy，改用 #addLabeledBy、#removeLabeledBy 和 #getLabeledByList。

改进了对可展开元素的支持

Android 16 添加了无障碍功能 API，可让您传达互动元素（例如菜单和展开式列表）的展开或收起状态。通过使用 setExpandedState 设置展开状态，并使用 CONTENT_CHANGE_TYPE_EXPANDED 内容更改类型调度 TYPE_WINDOW_CONTENT_CHANGED AccessibilityEvents，您可以确保 TalkBack 等屏幕阅读器会读出状态更改，从而提供更直观、更包容的用户体验。

不确定进度条

Android 16 添加了 RANGE_TYPE_INDETERMINATE，让您可以为确定性和不确定性 ProgressBar 微件公开 RangeInfo，从而让 TalkBack 等服务能够更一致地为进度指示器提供反馈。

三态复选框

Android 16 中的新 AccessibilityNodeInfo getChecked 和 setChecked(int) 方法现在除了“已选中”和“未选中”之外，还支持“部分选中”状态。此字段取代了已废弃的布尔值 isChecked 和 setChecked(boolean)。

补充说明

如果无障碍服务提供关于 ViewGroup 的说明，则会将来自其子视图的内容标签合并在一起。如果您为 ViewGroup 提供 contentDescription，无障碍服务会假定您还要覆盖不可聚焦的子视图的说明。如果您想为下拉菜单等内容添加标签（例如“字体系列”），同时保留当前的无障碍功能选择（例如“Roboto”），这可能会造成问题。Android 16 添加了 setSupplementalDescription，以便您提供用于提供 ViewGroup 相关信息的文本，而不会覆盖其子项中的信息。

必填表单字段

Android 16 向 AccessibilityNodeInfo 添加了 setFieldRequired，以便应用可以告知无障碍服务需要输入表单字段。对于填写各种类型表单的用户而言，这是一个重要的场景，即使是简单的必填条款及条件复选框，也能帮助用户始终如一地识别必填字段并在必填字段之间快速导航。

使用 LEA 助听器进行语音通话时，将手机用作麦克风输入

Android 16 adds the capability for users of LE Audio hearing aids to switch between the built-in microphones on the hearing aids and the microphone on their phone for voice calls. This can be helpful in noisy environments or other situations where the hearing aid's microphones might not perform well.

LEA 助听器的环境音量控制

Android 16 adds the capability for users of LE Audio hearing aids to adjust the volume of ambient sound that is picked up by the hearing aid's microphones. This can be helpful in situations where background noise is too loud or too quiet.

相机

Android 16 增强了对专业相机用户的支持，支持混合自动曝光以及精确的色温和色调调整。新的夜间模式指示器可帮助应用了解何时切换到夜间模式相机会话以及何时从夜间模式相机会话切换出去。新的 Intent 操作让您可以更轻松地拍摄动态照片，我们还将继续改进 UltraHDR 图片，使其支持 HEIC 编码和 ISO 21496-1 草稿标准中的新参数。

混合自动曝光

Android 16 adds new hybrid auto-exposure modes to Camera2, allowing you to manually control specific aspects of exposure while letting the auto-exposure (AE) algorithm handle the rest. You can control ISO + AE, and exposure time + AE, providing greater flexibility compared to the current approach where you either have full manual control or rely entirely on auto-exposure.

fun setISOPriority() {
    // ... (Your existing code before the snippet) ...

    val availablePriorityModes = mStaticInfo.characteristics.get(
        CameraCharacteristics.CONTROL_AE_AVAILABLE_PRIORITY_MODES
    )

    // ... (Your existing code between the snippets) ...

    // Turn on AE mode to set priority mode
    reqBuilder.set(
        CaptureRequest.CONTROL_AE_MODE,
        CameraMetadata.CONTROL_AE_MODE_ON
    )
    reqBuilder.set(
        CaptureRequest.CONTROL_AE_PRIORITY_MODE,
        CameraMetadata.CONTROL_AE_PRIORITY_MODE_SENSOR_SENSITIVITY_PRIORITY
    )
    reqBuilder.set(
        CaptureRequest.SENSOR_SENSITIVITY,
        TEST_SENSITIVITY_VALUE
    )
    val request: CaptureRequest = reqBuilder.build()

    // ... (Your existing code after the snippet) ...
}

精确调整色温和色调

Android 16 adds camera support for fine color temperature and tint adjustments to better support professional video recording applications. In previous Android versions, you could control white balance settings through CONTROL_AWB_MODE, which contains options limited to a preset list, such as Incandescent, Cloudy, and Twilight. The COLOR_CORRECTION_MODE_CCT enables the use of COLOR_CORRECTION_COLOR_TEMPERATURE and COLOR_CORRECTION_COLOR_TINT for precise adjustments of white balance based on the correlated color temperature.

fun setCCT() {
    // ... (Your existing code before this point) ...

    val colorTemperatureRange: Range<Int> =
        mStaticInfo.characteristics[CameraCharacteristics.COLOR_CORRECTION_COLOR_TEMPERATURE_RANGE]

    // Set to manual mode to enable CCT mode
    reqBuilder[CaptureRequest.CONTROL_AWB_MODE] = CameraMetadata.CONTROL_AWB_MODE_OFF
    reqBuilder[CaptureRequest.COLOR_CORRECTION_MODE] = CameraMetadata.COLOR_CORRECTION_MODE_CCT
    reqBuilder[CaptureRequest.COLOR_CORRECTION_COLOR_TEMPERATURE] = 5000
    reqBuilder[CaptureRequest.COLOR_CORRECTION_COLOR_TINT] = 30

    val request: CaptureRequest = reqBuilder.build()

    // ... (Your existing code after this point) ...
}

The following examples show how a photo would look after applying different color temperature and tint adjustments:

The original image with no color temperature or tint adjustments applied.

The image with color temperature adjusted to 3000.

The image with color temperature adjusted to 7000.

The image with tint levels lowered by 50.

The image with tint levels raised by 50.

相机夜间模式场景检测

To help your app know when to switch to and from a night mode camera session, Android 16 adds EXTENSION_NIGHT_MODE_INDICATOR. If supported, it's available in the CaptureResult within Camera2.

This is the API we briefly mentioned as coming soon in the How Instagram enabled users to take stunning low light photos blog post. That post is a practical guide on how to implement night mode together with a case study that links higher-quality in-app night mode photos with an increase in the number of photos shared from the in-app camera.

动态照片拍摄 intent 操作

Android 16 添加了标准 intent 操作 ACTION_MOTION_PHOTO_CAPTURE 和 ACTION_MOTION_PHOTO_CAPTURE_SECURE，用于请求相机应用拍摄动态照片并将其返回。

您必须传递额外的 EXTRA_OUTPUT 来控制将图片写入的位置，或者通过 Intent.setClipData(ClipData) 传递 Uri。如果您未设置 ClipData，系统会在调用 Context.startActivity(Intent) 时将其复制到该位置。

动态照片示例，显示静态图片和动态播放画面。

UltraHDR 图片美化

An illustration of Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) versus High Dynamic Range (HDR) image quality.

Android 16 continues our work to deliver dazzling image quality with UltraHDR images. It adds support for UltraHDR images in the HEIC file format. These images will get ImageFormat type HEIC_ULTRAHDR and will contain an embedded gainmap similar to the existing UltraHDR JPEG format. We're working on AVIF support for UltraHDR as well, so stay tuned.

In addition, Android 16 implements additional parameters in UltraHDR from the ISO 21496-1 draft standard, including the ability to get and set the colorspace that gainmap math should be applied in, as well as support for HDR encoded base images with SDR gainmaps.

图形

Android 16 包含最新的图形改进，例如使用 AGSL 的自定义图形效果。

使用 AGSL 实现自定义图形效果

Android 16 adds RuntimeColorFilter and RuntimeXfermode, allowing you to author complex effects like Threshold, Sepia, and Hue Saturation and apply them to draw calls. Since Android 13, you've been able to use AGSL to create custom RuntimeShaders that extend Shader. The new API mirrors this, adding an AGSL-powered RuntimeColorFilter that extends ColorFilter, and a Xfermode effect that lets you implement AGSL-based custom compositing and blending between source and destination pixels.

private val thresholdEffectString = """
    uniform half threshold;

    half4 main(half4 c) {
        half luminosity = dot(c.rgb, half3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722));
        half bw = step(threshold, luminosity);
        return bw.xxx1 * c.a;
    }"""

fun setCustomColorFilter(paint: Paint) {
   val filter = RuntimeColorFilter(thresholdEffectString)
   filter.setFloatUniform(0.5);
   paint.colorFilter = filter
}

连接

Android 16 更新了平台，让您的应用可以使用通信和无线技术的最新进展。

增强型安全范围测算

Android 16 adds support for robust security features in Wi-Fi location on supported devices with Wi-Fi 6's 802.11az, allowing apps to combine the higher accuracy, greater scalability, and dynamic scheduling of the protocol with security enhancements including AES-256-based encryption and protection against MITM attacks. This allows it to be used more safely in proximity use cases, such as unlocking a laptop or a vehicle door. 802.11az is integrated with the Wi-Fi 6 standard, leveraging its infrastructure and capabilities for wider adoption and easier deployment.

通用测距 API

Android 16 includes the new RangingManager, which provides ways to determine the distance and angle on supported hardware between the local device and a remote device. RangingManager supports the usage of a variety of ranging technologies such as BLE channel sounding, BLE RSSI-based ranging, Ultra Wideband, and Wi-Fi round trip time.

配套设备管理器设备存在性

In Android 16, new APIs are being introduced for binding your companion app service. Service will be bound when BLE is in range and Bluetooth is connected and service will be unbound when BLE is out of range or Bluetooth is disconnected. App will receives a new 'onDevicePresenceEvent()' callback based on various of DevicePresenceEvent. More details can be found in 'startObservingDevicePresence(ObservingDevicePresenceRequest)'.

媒体

Android 16 包含多种可改善媒体体验的功能。

改进了照片选择器

The photo picker provides a safe, built-in way for users to grant your app access to selected images and videos from both local and cloud storage, instead of their entire media library. Using a combination of Modular System Components through Google System Updates and Google Play services, it's supported back to Android 4.4 (API level 19). Integration requires just a few lines of code with the associated Android Jetpack library.

Android 16 includes the following improvements to the photo picker:

• Embedded photo picker: New APIs that enable apps to embed the photo picker into their view hierarchy. This allows it to feel like a more integrated part of the app while still leveraging the process isolation that allows users to select media without the app needing overly broad permissions. To maximize compatibility across platform versions and simplify your integration, you'll want to use the forthcoming Android Jetpack library if you want to integrate the embedded photo picker.
• Cloud search in photo picker: New APIs that enable searching from the cloud media provider for the Android photo picker. Search functionality in the photo picker is coming soon.

高级专业视频

Android 16 introduces support for the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec which is designed to be used for professional level high quality video recording and post production.

The APV codec standard has the following features:

• Perceptually lossless video quality (close to raw video quality)
• Low complexity and high throughput intra-frame-only coding (without pixel domain prediction) to better support editing workflows
• Support for high bit-rate range up to a few Gbps for 2K, 4K and 8K resolution content, enabled by a lightweight entropy coding scheme
• Frame tiling for immersive content and for enabling parallel encoding and decoding
• Support for various chroma sampling formats and bit-depths
• Support for multiple decoding and re-encoding without severe visual quality degradation
• Support multi-view video and auxiliary video like depth, alpha, and preview
• Support for HDR10/10+ and user-defined metadata

A reference implementation of APV is provided through the OpenAPV project. Android 16 will implement support for the APV 422-10 Profile that provides YUV 422 color sampling along with 10-bit encoding and for target bitrates of up to 2Gbps.

隐私设置

Android 16 包含多种功能，可帮助应用开发者保护用户隐私。

健康数据共享更新

Health Connect adds ACTIVITY_INTENSITY, a data type defined according to World Health Organization guidelines around moderate and vigorous activity. Each record requires the start time, the end time, and whether the activity intensity is moderate or vigorous.

Health Connect also contains updated APIs supporting medical records. This allows apps to read and write medical records in FHIR format with explicit user consent.

Privacy Sandbox on Android

Android 16 incorporates the latest version of the Privacy Sandbox on Android, part of our ongoing work to develop technologies where users know their privacy is protected. Our website has more about the Privacy Sandbox on Android developer beta program to help you get started. Check out the SDK Runtime which allows SDKs to run in a dedicated runtime environment separate from the app they are serving, providing stronger safeguards around user data collection and sharing.

安全

Android 16 包含一些功能，可帮助您增强应用的安全性并保护应用的数据。

密钥共享 API

Android 16 adds APIs that support sharing access to Android Keystore keys with other apps. The new KeyStoreManager class supports granting and revoking access to keys by app uid, and includes an API for apps to access shared keys.

设备规格

Android 16 为您的应用提供了支持，可让应用充分利用 Android 的设备规格。

适用于电视的标准化画质和音质框架

The new MediaQuality package in Android 16 exposes a set of standardized APIs for access to audio and picture profiles and hardware-related settings. This allows streaming apps to query profiles and apply them to media dynamically:

• Movies mastered with a wider dynamic range require greater color accuracy to see subtle details in shadows and adjust to ambient light, so a profile that prefers color accuracy over brightness may be appropriate.
• Live sporting events are often mastered with a narrow dynamic range, but are often watched in daylight, so a profile that preferences brightness over color accuracy can give better results.
• Fully interactive content wants minimal processing to reduce latency, and wants higher frame rates, which is why many TV's ship with a game profile.

The API allows apps to switch between profiles and users to enjoy tuning supported TVs to best suit their content.

国际化

Android 16 添加了一些功能，可在用户使用不同语言使用设备时完善用户体验。

垂直文本

Android 16 adds low-level support for rendering and measuring text vertically to provide foundational vertical writing support for library developers. This is particularly useful for languages like Japanese that commonly use vertical writing systems. A new flag, VERTICAL_TEXT_FLAG, has been added to the Paint class. When this flag is set using Paint.setFlags, Paint's text measurement APIs will report vertical advances instead of horizontal advances, and Canvas will draw text vertically.

Note: Current high-level text APIs, such as Text in Jetpack Compose, TextView, Layout classes and their subclasses don't support vertical writing systems, and don't support using the VERTICAL_TEXT_FLAG.

val text = "「春は、曙。」"
Box(
    Modifier.padding(innerPadding).background(Color.White).fillMaxSize().drawWithContent {
        drawIntoCanvas { canvas ->
            val paint = Paint().apply { textSize = 64.sp.toPx() }
            // Draw text vertically
            paint.flags = paint.flags or VERTICAL_TEXT_FLAG
            val height = paint.measureText(text)
            canvas.nativeCanvas.drawText(
                text,
                0,
                text.length,
                size.width / 2,
                (size.height - height) / 2,
                paint
            )
        }
    }
) {}

自定义衡量系统

Users can now customize their measurement system in regional preferences within Settings. The user preference is included as part of the locale code, so you can register a BroadcastReceiver on ACTION_LOCALE_CHANGED to handle locale configuration changes when regional preferences change.

Using formatters can help match the local experience. For example, "0.5 in" in English (United States), is "12,7 mm" for a user who has set their phone to English (Denmark) or who uses their phone in English (United States) with the metric system as the measurement system preference.

To find these settings, open the Settings app and navigate to System > Languages & region.