Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the android 12 developer preview is out and it's
been out a couple days and many of you have been asking me to cover it so i thought we'd visit it
and see if many of you are interested in it now before we get started i would recommend
not installing this on your main device i have this installed on the pixel 4
xl but if you have a newer pixel 5 for example i would not install it as it's fairly buggy
and this is a developer preview the beta will be out in a month or so based on what google has said
so it's buggy enough that i've actually been stuck in an app not able to go home and had to reboot
the device in order to get to the home screen so i've had some strange bugs so far like that
but it is a developer preview now this did come in about two gigabytes or so when i sideloaded
it onto this device and we'll take a look at the build number quick and you can see it says
spp2.210219.008 so this particular build like i said is for the pixel 4 xl but all of the changes
are the same and the first change is if you go to the home screen and you go to unlock the device
if you're not using the face unlock on the pixel 4 you'll see that it's translucent like
normal but the button where you enter the passcode after you've actually put it in and hit enter
no longer has a circle or a box around it so that's a slight change there's also no line here
as well compared to the previous version the next thing is the music under the notifications for
example looks blue now it has a blue theme on it based off the theme that you've set
across your os and you'll see it's blue here it's blue on the lock screen as well and if
you hit this button in the upper right this was on the first developer preview you have a little
pop-up that shows you the different devices you can connect to so this one just says phone speaker
or if i had my pixel buds connected i could switch between the two so that's new in this particular
update now one thing that they've updated that's not as good in this one is dark mode or the dark
theme so if i turn on dark theme you'll see it's sort of gray in this particular update if i go
and pull down the notification shade it has more of a gray tone to it and not a true black look to
it now this could affect battery since it's still lighting up those pixels so it's something they've
changed that i'm not sure is for the better this could change in future versions of course
now another option that's kind of interesting is if we go into the camera we now have the option
for split screen in camera so if you tap on the icon at the top when you're in your your app
selector here for multitasking you can see split screen tap on split screen and then you can select
whatever you want to go to so maybe we'll go to settings and now we have split screen with the
camera as i'm moving it around in real time and then our settings below the next change has to do
with widgets if i press and hold go to my widgets you'll see they're alphabetical and if i tap on
one then i can see the widgets i can't see them otherwise now so you can see them all categorized
alphabetically tap on clock for example and now you have the clock widgets so you can select them
that way let's just clean this up a little bit but it's a small change also with the first developer
preview if you go to styles and wallpapers under grid there's some new grid options as well so
those were changed with the first one and it's a change in this one as well you have a couple
different options if you want giant icons or a three by three grid or just the default whatever
you'd like it's just changed a little bit and you'll see it was a little buggy there as well
now if i go into one of my videos they've updated picture and picture as well so if i swipe home it
takes a moment shows up and i can move the picture and picture screen around and i can also expand it
to full screen almost now almost edge to edge also while i'm busy doing something else i can swipe it
off the screen now on either side so i can leave that playing you can still hear it if i turn it up
it's still playing and just resumes in the background and as you're going through this maybe
you're just going through different apps or maybe you're in your camera you can swipe it off to
the side and still have it playing unless you're recording video of course then you would want to
pause this but it's just something they've updated here a little bit so that's been updated for
picture-in-picture and it's a little bit smoother when you go into it and out of it now there's a
new option that's been added for a one-handed mode so if we go into our settings scroll down
go to system go to gestures scroll down again we have one-handed mode and we can turn this
on or off if we turn it back on we have the option to swipe down into a one-handed mode it works very
similar to apple's reachability on ios can swipe up or it will time out as well after eight seconds
of inactivity it will time out and you'll see it's a little bit glitchy there as well so i can pull
down like this and if we leave it for a few more seconds we'll wait for it to time out it should go
back up but you'll see it says exit when switching apps and then you have the timeout of inactivity
and there it goes back up where it belongs so you have that throughout the os and it's been added
for everything now also if we go back into our settings and then we go to connected devices under
connected devices go to connection preferences and then go to nfc there's a new option that
says required device unlock for nfc so it's just an option for security and you can see there's new
toggles from the first version of the developer preview but it says require device unlock for nfc
allow nfc payments and transit use only when screen is unlocked so you now have that option
as well so it's just a nice little addition that they've added there also under battery they've
made some changes as well so if you go to battery you now have the option to just view battery usage
here it was always a little bit of a pain to go to the three dot menu and then go to your options
now it's just one tap into your battery usage so it's a nice little update there and then
also the battery saver option is now just a switch so before this wasn't just a switch
you had to go into it and then then actually turn it on like this so you'd have to go into it every
time to turn it on now it's just a little bit easier and you can tap a switch so they've updated
that in settings as well also there's a new option in accessibility so if we go to accessibility
under accessibility we go to text and display under text and display we now have the option for
turn screen darker and this is sort of similar to force dark theme where you can force it to
change it to a dark theme on all the apps possible so if you turn it off for example
you'll see it sort of has some bugs there as well and it will switch back and forth and sort of try
and force this throughout different apps so it's a nice little option there it's just been changed
around here now in addition to this there's a couple developer options you can't really see
that have to do with curved displays so developers have more options to see if the display is curved
and then adjust their apps accordingly so that's something that's been changed there's
also a hidden android 12 gaming toolbar that has a dashboard for streaming your content so that is
here it's not turned on yet but it's something that they're adding in the future it looks like
and so those are the major changes with developer beta 2. like i said this is fairly buggy and i
don't expect it to be stable until beta 1 comes out based off the android timeline that shouldn't
be too far away and it will be much easier to install instead of having to side load it
so look for that in a month or so and there may be additional updates as well and so i look forward
to any other visual changes we might see with future updates as well so it looks pretty nice
the notification drawer is really nice as well as far as the way it separates different
applications when you're in them or if you have notifications for example so i'm liking android
12 so far but let me know if you want to see more of these videos in the comments below
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