hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and Android 11 made a surprise debut
yesterday with Android 11 Developer Preview 1 now this is a very early
preview version and Google actually recommends that you don't install it so
it says if you're not a developer but you want to try Android 11 please wait a
little bit longer we're expecting to open Android beta enrollments in the
next several weeks so this particular update has to be installed using a
computer either side loading it or installing it using fastboot installing
the things like baseband one by one so I would hold off if you want to try this
out unless you have an extra device now this is only available for pixel to 2 XL
3 3 Excel 3 a 3 a XL 4 and 4 XL no other devices supported at this time but they
will be later on now the nice thing about Android is we know the actual
release timeline so we know that it's going to come out in q3 of 2020 so here
is the entire layout of when we should see those releases they don't give an
exact date but it gives us an idea of one to expect the next one now this
particular version you'll see here it says Android r or r PP 1.2 0 0 1 2 3
that's 0 1 6 that's the actual build number and this has quite a few little
tweaks and changes expect bigger changes though later on with Google i/o so let's
go over some of the changes now one of the first ones I'm actually not seeing
and up here where we have all of our different quick settings unfortunately I
don't have this one but there's a screen recorder built in for a lot of pixel 4 &
4 XL devices it's not showing but for other devices it is so I'm not sure why
it's not here it's not showing up but it's just not there hopefully it will be
there in the future now one thing that they've updated is you'll see I have
pixel buds connected so I have these connected right now and if I turn on
airplane mode it will leave the pixel buds connected so if you're on a plane
and you want to listen to your music via bluetooth it will still do that so
that's a new little change that was was not there before so we turn that back on
it will just reconnect everything else now another thing they're making a
change to the in the notes and I'll show you more
physical changes in just a moment is the hot seat down here with your different
icons there's some information in the notes that say or in the code that say
that this may change based on what you use most in the future so this may be
rearranging itself later on or have the option to do so right now you can't do
that now a change they've made is conversations have a dedicated space in
your notification drawer so let me show you what I mean if I text myself it'll
take just a moment to pop through here there we go it says hi you'll see it
also shows a bubble I'll show you that in just a moment but we have a dedicated
converse space conversation space here at the top and this will allow us to use
it as a bubble now as well if we turn on notification bubbles now we saw this a
little bit earlier with Android 10 but it didn't really show up the way you
would think and right now it's showing as a conversation that's dedicated and
then if you long press on this you can turn on bubbles or turn off bubbles but
you actually have to turn the bubbles on within the developer options so if
you're looking for that it's there and the way that looks is here is a
conversation bubble so it will pop up similar to what Facebook does with
messenger you can move it around if I tap on it it opens the conversation
tells us a little more information here and then we can drag it off the screen
if we want or we can just swipe up home and it sticks to the side so again it
has these nice little animations and if we tap on this and then swipe off the
side it's kind of neat that it just pops back and forth like that so it's just
one of those little updates you don't have to use it but it's there if you'd
like to also from messages in the notifications you can send images as
well so if I say hello again and it pops in we'll wait for it here just a moment
we can reply and within here we can put an image if we'd like to
or we can reply with something else depending on what we'd like to do so in
future versions will have more controls but right now as some of the things work
great some of them don't now one of the things I thought was pretty interesting
is frame rates so if we go into our developer options here so in the
developer options there's actually frame rate so
scroll down and I'll find it here I'm not exactly sure where they put it and
there we go it's show refresh rate if I turn this on you'll see the refresh rate
in the upper left at all times telling us what the frame rate of the display is
or the refresh rate of the display so if I go into things like camera it switches
to 60 if I go back home it will switch to 90 so you get the idea
at which rate the the screen is actually running at it's just a little developer
option I thought was nice now there's some new gestures that pertain
specifically to pixel 4 and 4 XL and they have to do with music so if we go
into music and I hit play on this song and I set this down here and I bring my
hand closer it will pause the song as you can see down here if I bring it back
again it will play the song and then swiping through songs seems to work even
better now so we can just go through them pretty quickly or go back the other
way and it seems to work really well now and they've just updated this to be more
responsive in general now in the share menu maybe you want to share a photo or
maybe share a website they've updated your share menu options so here maybe I
want to share this webpage we'll go to share and it pops up and you'll see down
here if I scroll up you'll see I have different applications I can now pin up
to four different ones right here so maybe I want to pin ingor for example a
tap and hold tap pin and it shows up here so now it's allowing you to pin
four of them that you like that you use most often and then it gives you
suggestions as well now if we go into the settings again and we search for
share or battery share there's an option for that now or at least a little blurb
about it so we'll go to share and you'll see there's battery share so if I go to
battery share it says your phone's battery will run out faster when using
battery share battery share will work with compatible earbuds watches phones
and more so now it's built into Android to do the reverse sharing but the phone
has to be equipped with that so if you want to share using this with say future
pixel buds with maybe a pixel 5 or whatever they do in the future you'll
have that option there's also a new option for touch sensitivity so if you
use screen protectors it should help you with that so if we go to display
advanced and at the bottom you have increased
touch sensitivity improves touch when using screen protectors so this is just
a new feature that's there and if you use a screen protector it could help if
you're having issues with touch sensitivity now they've updated the
accessibility menu a little bit so if we go into accessibility we can scroll down
you'll see it's changed a little bit we'll just keep going and down by sound
amplifier or below that we have real-time text now there's nothing here
yet but in the future we could have an RTT option and it's just something
they've added but there's nothing there now for those of you saying why are
using the light theme well Google is updated this with Android as well so if
we go into say display and then we go to dark theme and we turn on dark theme we
can tap on dark theme and now we can change it to turn off until sunset or
turn on and off based on time of day so we've seen this before but it's a nice
little option to use so you can switch back and forth so I tend to have that
set so I can turn it off until sunset and now it's on the light theme until
sunset so it's just something that's really nice a little added extra that's
there now also there's a nice option for when you're using the camera and when
you get notifications and it shakes the phone or it pops in you can now stop
that and that's actually found under your settings as well under
do-not-disturb settings so let's go to that if you're looking for it you just
go to do not disturb access then you go to camera and you turn off allow do not
disturb or turn it on or off so depending on whether or not you have
do-not-disturb turned on gives you access to the camera and you can go in
here and change the permissions and speaking of permissions there's new
permissions when it comes to individual applications so similar to what they
have in iOS where you can only allow the application to use your location once
you can now do that with this particular update now if we go into an application
such as maps and I've changed the settings a little bit so you can see
this and try and locate myself you can see that we now have the option for only
this time as far as allowing location information to be used on your phone so
not only do we have while using app or deny we have only this time so it's a
nice little addition and some added of security and privacy now there's some
updates that you can't physically see that we'll see in the future with
different devices for example better support for 5g so if you have 5g it will
know more about the amount of data that you have available and things like that
it will also be more updates for supportive displays with hole punches or
foldable displays such as the Galaxy Z flip or those sorts of things
so it will have better display compatibility with those devices in the
future there's also updates to security and
privacy such as scoped storage for example which sort of sandboxes apps
similar to what is does but does it a little bit differently sort of
disallowing apps to interact with one another but that can also be changed as
well so you have a little bit more granular access to that and then in
addition to that we also have more biometric updates for about three levels
of security so you can have different levels of permission based on what
you're doing and whether you're using fingerprint or face identification and
things like that now there's other things in the
background we can't see as well such as call screening improvements for stir
shake and verification so we should get less spam calls
there's also scrolling screen shots coming so if you take a screen shot
you'll have the ability to actually capture more than just this but you can
have a scrolling screen shot that's not fully working some people have actually
found it but it's not fully working yet there's also Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
enhancements so for those of you having issues with the Bluetooth in general the
Bluetooth stack has been improved then there's also new machine learning
controls and low media encoding latency so there's all sorts of little things
that they've tweaked in the background and again this is an early preview and
not really meant for day-to-day devices so I'll probably be reverting it back on
my pixel 4 XL to the public version just because I use this regularly but if you
have an extra device maybe a pixel 3a XL or something and want to try it out go
ahead and do that the only problem is you won't get all the features with the
soli radar and things like that that are specific to the pixel 4 and 4 XL so
that's it for a first look at the Android 11 Developer Preview I'll be
sure to do different follow-ups when the next versions come out as well if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time