hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Google released the first version
of android q its beta one so I want to go over all the different changes
there's quite a few physical changes and a lot under the hood so let's start with
the lockscreen and as you can see the ambient display is on they actually call
that the the lockscreen display now and you'll see it just changed let me go
back and if you have music playing it now displays the actual name of the
artist and the actual song playing you'll see the the time is slow up here
and everything else looks pretty similar so let's go ahead and unlock it
I'll close the music here now the music's closed and what we have is the
ambient display now you'll notice this is dark and that's because I installed
this one I already have the dark theme turned on it looks like they're going to
have dark mode throughout everything and I'll show you that as we go along but as
you can see here is the lockscreen display so if I go to the display this
is what it looks like and this is actually just black there's no pixels
turned on so it's it actually should save quite a bit of battery when you're
in these different menus so if we scroll down you'll see it says lockscreen
display it no longer says ambient display and then you have your different
options here as well so that part's all new so let's go home and what we'll look
at Mac's is actually the emergency has been added to the power button so if we
hold the power button you'll see emergency here so that's a new change as
well if we hit that it will actually let us put in our emergency information dial
nine-one-one or whatever our emergency number is so that's built in really nice
there as well so let me go to show you this is Android Q give me just a moment
here so you'll see this is Android Q now if I tap on the Q will actually get the
P but if I keep tapping on the P there we go
now we've got a little drawing pad we can draw on we can change the colors
and change a couple of different settings you can change all sorts of
things is kind of neat so there's a bunch of different things built in
that's just built in something fun to play a lot around with now as far as the
apps are concerned the app switcher looks a little bit different they've
rounded the corners so let me swipe this one off you'll see the corners are now
rounded and that part's just a little bit different and then if I tap and hold
on an application go to app info the app info is a little bit different as well
we can open the app directly from the app info uninstall it or force stop it
it also tells you how many times you've gotten notifications per day on this
particular app storage information and everything else now if I go home and
then I hold this then I drag it to remove now you'll see it says item
removed I can hit undo so that's just built in if you remove an item from the
home screen every time it will pop up and you can undo now if you uninstall it
it does not pop up now like I said dark mode is all over the place so if I pull
down the notifications here let me swipe some of these off and you'll see there's
a lot of a lot of different notifications that are dark one of the
messaging bubbles looks a little bit different so that's changed as well and
it's all new now if you get a notification from this I haven't seen
this but supposedly there's a little bell letting you know what the last
notification was when you have sound on so if you go into your notifications you
can see which one is the newest now also if I tap and hold here this is new as
well so we've now got block stay silent and alert me and then you can hit the
little I for info and you go right into that app info as well so again pull down
tap and hold and we've just got some new notifications and again we've got that
dark mode going on as well now if we want to swipe one of these off we can do
that let's go down here we can swipe this off to the right but if we swipe to
the left we can't swipe it off any more so we can silence it or get some
notification settings but we can't do much else with it we actually have to
swipe to the right to get rid of it and it's pretty simple but they've made
it a little easier to manage that way you're not swiping them off the screen
when you really meant to hit settings now if I pull down again you'll see it
looks a little bit different here for faster voice typing we've also got
download now so that's something new 4G boards so if I hit download
that's the download and the actual top display looks a little bit different now
this is available on all pixel devices let me unlock a pixel one and you'll see
I'm still installing Android nine updates on this I haven't used it in a
while but the actual top looks a little bit different just as far as the
information up here it's a little bit different it's changed and it looks a
little bit nicer now if I set this down we'll put this over here for now and if
we go into settings there we go into settings we've got some new options here
as well so we've got a new privacy area so if we go into privacy
we've got app permissions show pass where it's on lock screen and advanced
four go to advanced you'll see we've got auto fill service with Google Google
location history ads and usage and Diagnostics now if I go to app
permission wait for it to load each one of these has different permissions so
maybe I go into camera will wait for this to load and it will tell us what's
allowed as far as the different applications so again this is all black
or in dark mode but it'll tell us what's allowed and what's denied as well so
instead of just having little toggle switches here maybe Google do oh we can
say allow or deny and if we go back home we're back to the settings rather here
you'll see location and security is broken into two separate sections so if
I go into location this is new as well app permission go wait for it to load
there we go and maybe we'll go to the camera again
now we can allow it only while using the app to use our location and this is per
app so it says allowed only while in use it breaks it down into sections you can
see it says allowed up here allowed only in use and then down here it says denied
now again if we go back we can go into security and security is very similar as
well it's just a little bit different as far as where it's located now we also
have a new option under accessibility so if I go to accessibility and then scroll
down all the way down here you'll see there's time to take action and time to
take action is how long you want to wait to take action on something you can
leave it to default 10 seconds up to up to 2 minutes it says choose how long to
show messages that ask you to take action but are visible only temporarily
so not all apps support this setting so you've got that as a new app app action
as well now if we go back home we'll go to Chrome and one thing they've changed
that's very subtle is if you tap and select something there's actually haptic
feedback so you feel a little bit of a move or I'll select the cue here and it
moves a little bit now say I want to share this they've changed this as well
so if I tap the three dots hit share this little dialogue is completely
different and it's supposed to be a lot faster so it should be quicker when
you're going to share something through here it doesn't take as long to pop up
try that again you'll see and it pops right up and I can copy it and that's it
so that's pretty helpful very quick there as well they've updated a few
things with a material design and also to carry over that dark mode but it
doesn't quite look right so you'll see here's sort of dark mode for photos it's
just not looking proper and they'll probably fix that in a future update
also they've updated the files app so if we go down to files wherever that is if
there's files it looks more like material design and
then they've also updated the wallpaper app so if you tap and hold go to
wallpapers and you'll see if I go into say a living universe tap on one of
these it just looks a little bit different a little nicer I think gives
more information and tells you about the different wallpapers now one thing I
also found - I don't know necessarily if it's new on this but I couldn't find it
on older pixel devices is if you go into the camera and then you go to more and
then to settings we go down to advanced and now we have store videos efficiently
we can use h.265 HEV C format instead of the larger format of h.264 so that's
there as well and that's something new I noticed also
now there's also a new dialogue that can pop up for different settings within
applications so maybe you're in Chrome and you want to see settings within here
they haven't updated this yet but let me show you a screenshot that google has
shown that what this will look like when you try and look at settings within an
app it can pull up some of the system settings and it looks pretty good and it
makes things more easy to access now we're back at the home screen and I want
to show you there's an option to share Wi-Fi that's a little bit different so
go to your Wi-Fi hit the little settings here and then you can hit share and you
confirm it with your fingerprint and that's a new dialogue as well and then
you can share it with a QR code so if you put your fingerprint on it it shares
your password with a QR code and that's pretty nice
simple to share your password that way and you should be good to go there now
some of the other options have to do with developer options so let me go
ahead and turn that on now in developer options here you'll see there's an
accent color and we can change this to different colors depending on what we
like so it kind of hints at another dark modes the theming or setting but it
doesn't do anything but change these accent colors so you can change it to
default and then the next thing is freeform windows so if we scroll up a
little bit here freeform windows if we turn that on and
then we go here and then maybe we go here we've got split screen and then
freeform so if we tap on freeform doesn't really do anything yet but it's
there and maybe that's for different devices that may have different screen
layouts now also there is force desktop mode and it says if we turn this on and
it says force experimental desktop mode on secondary displays can't really do
anything with it even if you plug in an external display it just doesn't seem to
do anything but in the future we may be able to do something with that and who
knows what it'll look like but I look forward to seeing what that's all about
now finally under the developer options if we scroll down to feature flags here
go into feature flags and then you want to scroll down until you find a setting
screen or Kord long-press turn that on go home
hold the power button long press screenshot and now you can start screen
recording so it says system UI will start
capturing everything that's displayed on your screen start now and now it's
screen recording and so it's recording everything I do here we can stop it now
in order to get the screen recording to stop I actually had to turn it off where
I turned it on and reboot so hit OK and now if we unlock this is a little bit
new they have this little icon here that's a little bit different so if I
scroll up on this one you'll see it's a little bit different so let me go ahead
and put in my passcode now there's a new dialog as well if you have an older app
that needs to be updated to the 64-bit architecture and some other changes for
api's that they've updated so that you kind of compliant with the latest
versions so maybe you want this wallpaper and I'll leave a link in the
description but maybe you want the wallpaper you want to get it from
Twitter this is f Jennings Amell close wallpaper so maybe I want this wallpaper
I'll tap on this and it says opening and it's going to give me a little message
here to let me know that it will be blocked in future Q builds so that's
something that's interesting and then if I go here and open it and go to Google
Drive here then I tap the three dots and then I say download it's going to pop up
and ask me if I want to give it access to the actual device itself so that's
pretty nice or and it's actually just letting you know hey I want to have
access to this it's a little bit different than the dialogues we had
before so that's nice so we'll just say allow and then I'll be able to save it
so that's it for the major physical changes some people are saying they're
seeing not just the percentage here but actual time that's left on the battery
as well when the percentage isn't there it just depends how you have it
configured and also there are a ton of behind-the-scenes changes so I'm going
to run through those quickly just to tell you what they are
so that's it for physical but let's go ahead and take a look at what they've
actually changed behind the scenes there's quite a few now the first thing
they've changed is improvement to the art runtime which
helps apps start faster and use less memory there's also more control over
apps controlling access to shared files and users will be able to control apps
access to photos and videos or audio collections with new runtime permissions
there's also increased protection around Bluetooth cellular and Wi-Fi along with
verification and Android cue they're extending support for passive a fennec
ation methods such as face recognition as well Android you also add support for
TLS 1.3 security protocols it's got improved peer-to-peer and
Internet connectivity there's also Wi-Fi performance modes for
high performance and low latency and there's also a couple new audio and
video codecs so there's support for AV 1 and HDR 10 plus and opus for audio
there's also native MIDI support api's for midi device communication and then
also they're working towards an OpenGL standard for devices so that things are
more unified built on the Vulcan platform so there's also support for
angle on top of that Vulcan platform on android devices for 3d graphics so
there's also updates for neural networks with 60 new ops and performance
optimizations and then Android q also restricts access to more non SDK
interfaces so there's more public SDKs to make things more seamless seamless
with new updates and finally Android Q will warn users with a dialogue when
they first run an app that targets a platform it has an API level that was
prior to Android marshmallow apps now have access to dynamic depth information
as well so they can build that into different applications and also there's
now support for foldable displays and new innovative screens in the future so
there are a ton of changes and I'm sure we'll see some changes with that
developer conference in a few months so the app drawer really hasn't changed at
all it's basically the same but everything seems to be pretty fast but
this is a beta and it's an early beta and they do warn of bad battery life and
if you're going to try this make sure it's on a secondary device I wouldn't
really recommend it on a main device it does work on pixel 1 through pixel 3 XL
so this is a pixel XL will work on all of the different pixel devices but
that's it for now maybe it'll be on some other devices
later on like I mentioned earlier the if you'd like to get your hands on this
wallpaper I'll link it in the description and if you found anything I
didn't mention let me know in the comments below I'd love to see what else
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watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time