hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and yesterday Google released Android 11
Developer Preview 4. now this was a bit unexpected since we really didn't expect
a preview for in fact we were expecting a beta but they've pushed that back to
June 3rd so we won't have the first beta until June 3rd so right now we have
Developer Preview 4 and there's a few small changes in it and this was a
pretty small update and as you can see here in my screenshot it was 252
megabytes on my pixel 3a Excel now I didn't install it and my pixel for Excel
because there's actually a note in there along with developer preview 3 that face
unlock will no longer work if you flash the pixel 4 or 4 Excel to the newest
versions of the Developer Preview developer preview 3 developer preview 4
and then you go back to Android 10 it actually warns you about that so if you
have a pixel 4 or 4 Excel face unlock will no longer work if you go back to
Android 10 and so this is really only meant for developers to check out all
the new features now also Android auto could have issues
as well so there's a bunch of issues I wouldn't recommend installing it unless
you have a secondary device to check it out or your developer and you want to
develop before it now one quick thing before we get into the features that I
noticed before I started editing this video is that the screen is sort of
rolling on the pixel 3 axl you may be able to see this with the current camera
and I tried different cameras I tried different frame rates different shutter
speeds things like that and it seems to be something with Android 11 Developer
Preview 4 I didn't see this before on this device and normally you won't see
it because I adjust the camera so you don't see it just like you don't see it
on the pixel for Excel so just keep that in mind there's something with this
update that did that and so that's why you're seeing that now the build number
on this is RPP 4 2 0 0 4 0 9.0 1 5 and this particular bill does not have a ton
that's new but there are some new features so let's take a look at the
first thing and the first thing has to do with the pixel themes available so if
we press and hold on the home screen go to styles in wallpaper then we go down
to style under style let's maybe set up a custom one and then we'll go to next
and once we get to the shapes we now have some eye
shape changes so instead of all of the square and the ones we're used to we
also have this kind of hexagon looking one and then we also have this one as
well so if you want to use those you can use these there are new shapes for your
icons in your theme you don't have to use them but you can use them if you'd
like now there's been some changes with notifications as well and one of them
coming from Developer Preview 3 to Developer Preview 4 has changed now
before you could dismiss persistent notification so you'll see this is a
YouTube video before I could just swipe it off the screen clear all they would
go away and it just wouldn't be there and then we could pull down and see it
again that's been removed from this update and that's sort of unfortunate
they've also updated press and hold so if you press and hold on a notification
they've refined the way it looks so now you have a Settings icon where you can
just go to settings and then you have alerting and silent and priority if it's
a messaging application so you can turn off notifications and they continue to
tweak this so I think you'll see some changes with the beta as well now
they've made some changes to multitasking or your recent so if we
swipe up here we go to our reasons you'll see down at the bottom they've
changed it so we have screenshot and share what we also have select so maybe
we go to something with text we hit select it selects the text and then
makes it easier to select so we can select whatever we want copy and paste
it and you see all the other apps go away if we hit the X everything comes
back and then we can go back through now there was an update with developer
preview 3 where you swipe this off and you could get it back but right now you
can't do that they've changed it so that the undo feature within the multitasking
or the reasons doesn't work anymore so maybe they'll bring that back maybe they
won't but it doesn't seem to work anymore now they have made a small
change to picture-in-picture so if I play my video here we'll just turn it
down we'll go home and you'll see it's a little bit buggy but it says no
connection and you'll see we can resize it if we tap on it resizes and then we
have a new icon or a new UI icon down here at the bottom or we can dismiss it
it's a little bit buggy we can dismiss it like that and it goes away and it
does work but it's still a little is a little bit
buggy with the resizing and everything but we have that ability now now Wi-Fi
options have been updated as well so if we press and hold on Wi-Fi will go into
our Wi-Fi and now we have disconnect as an option so we can disconnect from here
if I go to advanced we also have Auto connect so we can have an auto connect
and this wasn't there before we didn't have the option to change some things
with previous developer previews but we did not have that option here so that's
something new now within settings there's a couple new options as well so
if we go into settings and then we go to apps and notifications and then we'll
just wait for a notification to show up maybe we'll just tap on Google here
under that if we go to permissions under permissions if we scroll down we now
have remove permissions if app isn't used it says to protect your data
permissions for this app will be removed if the app isn't used for a few months
and so that's turned on by default now and it's just a new option that's there
that's really nice I'm glad that they've added things like this maybe you're not
using something that uses a lot of permissions it will revoke those
permissions so that you don't forget and there aren't apps tracking what you're
doing so that's really nice to implement that in now there's one other thing that
people have found within the code I have not seen on this developer preview but I
did see it on a previous version with gestures so if we go to our gestures
with system navigation and gestures some people are saying within the code are
some tutorials on how this works now in setting up Android 11 I saw some of
these tutorials I don't see them here but we can change the settings and we
have tutorials built in so it just shows you how to use the gestures built into
the OS so that's really nice and you can see it's animated here as well so it's
just showing how to use it which is a nice little change and then
finally they've made a quick or tiny little change to the top here at the top
you can see everything fits nicely in previous versions sometimes they would
run off the display depending on which display you're using so maybe your time
wouldn't show properly or your battery percentage and that is everything new in
Android 11 developer preview for I'm sure there's some updates to security
and things like that but it is a Developer Preview and I would urge you
not to install it unless you have a secondary device especially if it's a
pixel 4 or 4 XL and just wait until June and you'll be
able to try it and it'll be much more stable for you to use regularly but let
me know if you found anything else in the comments below I'll link this
wallpaper in the description as I always do and if you haven't subscribed already
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time