Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Android 13 DP 1 – Everything you need to know”.
Hello again, ladies and gentlemen, i’m joe handy from android authority.com and today we’re going to check out the first developer preview of android 13 in february, because android updates are apparently year-round activities now, for simplicity’s sake, we’re going to compare android 13 to android 12 proper and Then do another video later about android 12l. With that said, let’s get started. We don’t expect too much here since android 12 brought such a massive redesign, but google still managed to bring out the goods. For starters, android 13 enhances the material you redesign with some extra options. The big one so far is icon. Auto theming the os can now theme your home screen and app drawer icons with the same colors. It uses to theme everything else.
There is also a light version and a dark version for you dark mode lovers out there, it’s a pretty basic two-tone approach, but it can look nice with the right colors. The next design change is a bit of a curiosity. If you go into the developer options and change the smallest width number to something really high. Like 600, the pixel launcher changes into a tablet-like layout, complete with the six shortcuts, an improvement from android 12l4 shortcuts, by the way changing from a phone to a tablet.
Ui is something we’d expect in android 13, since android 12l exists and puts such a large emphasis on this very layout. But it is a bit weird that it’s so easy to trick the pixel launcher into thinking it’s running on a tablet when it’s never run on a tablet before the press. Materials did say that android 13 is optimized for chromebooks, foldables tablets and phones, though, so this isn’t too shocking of a change. There also seems to be a material you improvement that gives users more options when it comes to extracting colors from the palettes. They include a vibrant mode, which is subtly different from the normal mode, a vibrant mode that can include colors not extracted from the wallpaper like this gold color in my example here and a spritz mode that removes saturation for a more grayscale look.
We’Ll have to wait until a future release to show you what those look like. Unfortunately, that seems to be it for the time being. The icon, picker was technically a beta feature in android 12, but it should leave beta in android 13..
There is evidence of more ui differences, such as a different media player ui in the notifications and more, but we’ll have to wait for later previews and betas to see those to be honest after last year. I didn’t expect the redesign to be all that different, but i am glad that google is adding more options and granularity. Android 13 also had a few new features that you’ll no doubt hear more about in the coming months, but we’ll talk about them here as well.
The first and perhaps most interesting, is the inclusion of per app languages. This is a super useful feature for multilingual speakers and will let people decide what language they want? Each application to show separate from all the others developers will be able to use the device settings for preferred language or simply ask the user which one they want. Android 13 also introduces a new quick tap function where you can turn your flashlight on and off with. Just a couple of taps, this one is for pixel devices only since it’s the only device series with the quick tap feature and that’s about it for features.
There seems to be some evidence of some other hidden stuff in android 13, but usually google takes its time. Introducing all of the new features in any given year so we’ll take a look as more become available in later releases under the hood is where we expect most of the changes to take place, and there are some interesting things here. So, let’s dive right in google has improved things for app developers who provide custom, quick settings tiles in their applications.
Now it’s easier for developers to let users know about custom, quick settings tiles and an optional prompt that lets users add the tile without any additional work. Google is introducing what they’re calling programmable shaders it’s kind of a collection of neat effects and animations that developers can call on when needed directly from the os. This should help app developers make apps that feel a little much more like android, 12 and 13, with a little more glitz and flare without needing too much extra work. While reading through the press materials, google was very proud of its 200 speed improvement when hyphenating words that run into the edge of the screen.
I didn’t personally know that this was a big issue, but google definitely fixed it. There is another interesting thing called the android resource economy, it’s viewable in developer options and we don’t know a whole lot about it. Yet, in short, it seems to be a way to manage battery drain by restricting background apps. In short, a device with a full battery will let more background processes queue up than it will when the battery is low.
For the record, that’s a very oversimplified explanation and it’s likely more nuanced than that. Of course, there was the usual array of smaller things that users don’t really see, but developers do. For example, google says that android 13 starts to work on refreshing, android’s, core libraries to better align with open jdk 11 lts.
That doesn’t really mean anything to us normal folks, but it’s important for app developers. It’S usually a bit rare so early on, but there were actually a few security and privacy features tucked away in android, 13’s. First developer preview. To start there is a new secure photo picker. This is a feature baked into android proper that insulates the contents of your photos from the application that you’re using, for example, if you want to share a photo from your gallery to your messages, the photo picker pops up to do all the work and keep any Applications from seeing the photos that you choose, luckily, this feature is backwards compatible with android, 11 and 12, when google eventually back ports it it’s not available yet in the first developer preview.
But this graphic shows you what it should look like. There is also a new permission for nearby wi-fi devices. It’S useful for doing things like setting up smart home tech and it lessens android’s reliance on the location permission when you really don’t want to give up your location. The new os also changes up how guest profiles work.
One such change is the ability to decide which installed apps the guest profile can see. In addition, the main profile’s data is not shared with the guest profile in any way and the guest users will have to log into those apps with their own credentials. Finally, let’s talk a little bit about opt-in notifications. Android 13 introduces the feature and it’s similar to how ios does it an application now has to ask you for permission to send you notifications.
If you don’t grant the permission, it can’t send you any. It only works on apps that target android 13, though, so i can’t show you what it looks like, and it may be some time before app developers adopt this particular feature. There were some smaller quality of life changes as well. It’S not turned on in android 13 developer preview, but the os now has the capacity to clear out your clipboard. If you haven’t used it in a while, the privacy dashboard will eventually have a weekly view, along with its daily view and some other smaller stuff that we’ll get to in future developer previews. Overall, this is actually a much larger update than i personally anticipated. After the massive changes in android 12 and then even more changes in android 12l, it didn’t seem like google would have enough time to actually make android 13 all that different in terms of design. The improvements are fairly minor.
However, we are back to the classic android update where there is a huge onus on under the hood and privacy changes with the design changes serving to improve, what’s already there, rather than introduce drastically new things. In any case, it’s pretty clear that android 13 exists to improve on android 12 and android 12l, as evidenced by the improvements to material. U changes to the tablet ui introduced in android 12l and the weak view in the privacy dashboard still there’s a lot of cool stuff hidden from vue, unless you know how to work an emulator really well, so we will reserve full judgment until we get our hands On more complete builds in the coming months, according to google, we should get another developer preview next month in march, followed by two betas in april and may two final builds in june and july, with the final release planned sometime around august or september of 2022. With all of that said, let’s get the final basics out of the way the dessert name for this one is tiramisu and google doesn’t even try to hide it anymore, since it’s right there in the settings menu for everybody to see the easter egg is still the Same as the one from android 12 for right now and to answer a question that we always get asked, no, you should not flash this on your daily driver. It’S a preview for developers and not a build for daily use, and that about does it for this one folks, if you like this video, you know what to do and if not, you still know what to do. We have some articles linked up in the video description if you want to learn more and do stay tuned for even more coverage, thanks again for watching everybody and have a wonderful day.
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