No, Google is Not Developing Call Recording Feature for Android P

In the past couple of days, the cyberspace has been flooded with reports that Android P will debut a call recording feature, citing few terms scattered randomly in the commits fabricated in the Android Open up Source Project (AOSP). Simply these reports now seem to be nil more than a misinterpretation of information, something which has now been explained in particular by the editor-in-chief of XDA-Developers, Mishaal Rahman, in a lengthy Reddit post with proper evidence in tow.

The XDA editor-in-chief did not mince words in making it clearly known to all that the reports of telephone call recording's arrival on Android P are fake, and the proofs they furnished for the wild speculation are just that, arising out of articulate misunderstanding.

Android P is not adding phone call recording support, at least that's not what these commits show. Be conscientious of wild speculation like this. I fear that it may be too late when this gets reblogged everywhere.https://t.co/YOLujeyxZ4

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) Feb 4, 2018

The details of the commits made in the AOSP are explained comprehensively in his mail service, which states that the mention of phone call recording in the commits does not hint at its implementation every bit a feature, but rather as a warning tone that will be played by Telecom operators.

I have been following these commits since before they were merged, and the gist of why this is inaccurate is because the mention of recording apps is just and then Telecom can warn that a call may be recorded. It does this by playing an outgoing 1400Hz tone every 15 seconds while a call is beingness recorded.

In reality, the functionality being talked near is a phone call recording tone that volition exist played by carriers every xv seconds during a telephone call to warn users that their call may be recorded. According to the mail service, Vodafone'due south German subsidiary, in particular, asked for the characteristic, merely this does not hateful that APIs for call recording will exist universally present and agile in Android P. Following is the image of the actual quotes listed in the AOSP commit.

No, Google is Not Developing Call Recording Feature for Android P

Hopefully, the aforesaid testify tin can resolve the mess of misinterpretation created around the evolution of a call recording characteristic in Android P.