Reply To: Android 12 releases today, but the update for Pixel phones comes later Today, Google is releasing 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…

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Since “monet” isn’t fully open source yet, we likely won’t 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 this open-source implementation of “monet”. Third-party app developers are free to add support for dynamic colors right now, even if it’ll only work on Pixel phones running the latest release or custom ROMs.

Material You doesn’t 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, Android’s native scrolling screenshots feature won’t work in every application, but it should work most of the time.

• One-handed mode
• Game dashboard
• Privacy dashboard
• Camera and microphone privacy
• Conversations widget

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

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