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- October 5, 2021 at 10:18 am #15662
Today, Google is releasingĀ Android 12, the most significant update to the Android operating system in years. Google is starting to upload the source code for the new OS today, but the rollout of the Android 12 update to select Pixel phones comes later.
Whatās new in Android 12?
The last few Android releases werenāt that exciting compared to Android 12. FollowingĀ our first look at the new OSĀ back in February, we knew we were in for big changes. Since there are so many new features, hereās a breakdown of some of the highlights:Material You
By far the biggest change in Android 12 isĀ Material You, the latest version of Googleās Material design language. Material You, as Google describes, āseeks to create designs that are personal for every style, accessible for every need, alive and adaptive for every screen.ā When developing Android 12, Google created a new theme engine code-named āmonetā that generates a rich palette of pastel colorsĀ derived from the userās wallpaper. These colors are then applied to various parts of the system and their values are made available through an API that the userās applications can call, thus letting apps decide whether they want to recolor their UI. Google, for instance, is going all-in on Material You (obviously), and theyāve alreadyĀ updated a number of their own appsĀ to incorporate dynamic colors.Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-launched/
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Since āmonetāĀ isnāt fully open source yet, we likely wonāt be seeing other OEMs incorporate wallpaper-based theming in their forks of Android 12, unless they decide to create their own implementation. Custom ROM developers, meanwhile, can implement thisĀ open-source implementation of āmonetā. Third-party app developers are freeĀ to add support for dynamic colorsĀ right now, even if itāll only work on Pixel phones running the latest release or custom ROMs.
Material You doesnāt end at dynamic colors. Android 12 also redesigns the notifications panel UI, simplifies the power menu, tweaks the layout for the lockscreen, and makes several other UI changes. Google is also modernizing the Android widget and pushing developers to update their widgets for the new release. The company has already rolled out a number of updates that bring updated widget designs, many of which are beautiful to look at.
Scrolling Screenshots
Android 12 finally adds a highly requested feature: scrolling screenshots. With this feature, you can take a screenshot of a page that scrolls, without needing to take and then combine multiple screenshots. Because of the way it was built, Androidās native scrolling screenshots featureĀ wonāt work in every application, but it should work most of the time.- One-handed mode
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