hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Android 11 beta 1 was released to
anyone that has a device that's compatible and that means anything from
the pixel 2 to XL three three XL three a three a XL
four and four XL currently those are the only supported beta devices and if you
have one of those you can download it pretty easily and if it's over-the-air
you enroll your device into androids beta program you'll see there's the
website there and it was about 293 megabytes to download if you're going to
install it yourself using a computer it will be about 2 gigabytes now let's take
a look at the build number and then we'll take a look at everything new the
build number as you can see it says 11 and then RPB1.200504.018 and
this particular update has some new features in it compared to the developer
previews that were out before it now I covered most of those previews and if
you haven't seen those there's a bunch of little details covered in each one of
those I'm going to cover the major changes now if you want to try this for
yourself just be warned that it may have stability battery or performance issues
and they particularly warn against anyone that's using accessibility
because some of those features may not work now with this update the first
thing they've changed is they've updated it with a bunch of different changes
under styles and wallpapers so if you go to style and maybe you want to create a
new style or a custom style you can do that well hit next
hit next again there's some new options and there's a bunch of new shapes as
well so if you don't want your icons to be round you want them to be sort of a
skwerkel or a square or any of these other shapes you can do that and then
you can customize everything else if that's what you want so you have that
option as well so that's really nice now they've also updated dark mode on this
particular device so if you're in dark mode we'll go to settings and you'll see
there's some glitches here and there but we'll go into display and then we'll
turn on the dark theme now you can do that from the menu here at the top as
well so if you want to just switch between dark theme or not you can do
that but I wanted to show you that there's a new menu where you can turn it
on based off sunrise to sunset and that's something I usually leave so it
just changes throughout the day now if I go back to the home screen
you'll see that they've updated it so that the menus look more as though
they're dark so if I press and hold you'll see everything's nice and dark to
match the dark theme it's a nice little update now also when we're in that dark
mode they've updated the menus as well when you're in settings so settings
icons have been updated they look a little bit nicer and it's just updated
specifically for dark mode now I usually don't have dark theme on when I'm using
a video because it's too reflective and you can see everything so I do use it
throughout the day but it switches by itself
now with Android 11 beta 1 there's now apps suggestions and I've actually moved
my icons up one so that I can show you apps Agustin's because it was turned on
by default but then once I turned it off because it was sort of invasive it
actually kept my icons up here then when I went to turn it back on after I had
repositioned my icons it didn't work properly so there's a little bit of a
bug there but if you go into app suggestions on the home screen it's been
in the app list for a while turn it on go home you'll now see suggestions so
it's based on the most used app and then if you press and hold you can actually
pin the app based on the suggestion of course so it's whether or not you want
to use it it's fine it just gives you suggestions but it does take up another
row instead of having whatever you want on the bottom row so just keep that in
mind but it's a nice little feature if you want to see the suggestions
throughout the day if not we just turn it off they disappear and then you have
to reposition your app icons now with notifications there's some significant
updates as well and something I really appreciate is they've broken it into
sections now you can see at the top here I have something different going on now
this is actually media resumption options and they have to be turned on in
developer options but maybe you have Google Play Music or switched over to to
YouTube music or maybe you're using Spotify it will show up here and with
media resumption if you have that option turned on just search for it in your
settings you can now pick which device you want to send the audio to just by
tapping on the tabie button at the top so again if we go up here we can hit
phone and it will pop up the same is true if we go over to say what's playing
on YouTube you can do the same thing pick where you want the odd
to go so it's a really nice option it's in the top here and it's in media
resumption like I said now some people are actually seeing it on the lock
screen with media resumption as well I'm not seeing this you'll see it just shows
what it is and then it unlocks quickly and I don't really see anything
different but you have some new options in the notification center if you have
that now another thing is they've categorized notifications so let me text
myself quickly so I can show you what I mean
so you'll see with notifications we now have some new sections we now have our
conversations as they're calling it although sometimes it's labeled
sometimes it's not then we also have alerting notifications and then silent
notifications and so you have these sections now and you can select what
you'd like to do with them so if we press and hold or long press we can now
make this a priority and it will show on top either as a conversation or a bubble
which we're not seeing bubbles just yet but I'll show you that in a moment we
can have it alerting or silence so if it's priority it will actually override
do not disturb if we go into our settings here you see that we have
bubbles and we can turn bubbles on or off or make this a conversation we have
some new options how to handle this now this will work within other messaging
apps as well now if you've ever used facebook Messenger you'll have this
option for a bubble and this is what the bubbles look like if you have bubbles
turned on for your different messaging apps and now developers will need to
enable this allow it to work properly and then you'll be able to move the
bubble around if someone messages you it will just pop it as a bubble and if you
want to dismiss it you can just dismiss it like that it's a nice new feature
that will be there hopefully once it's launched now there's another option as
well whether or not it sticks when the final version is released is hard to say
but if we swipe over here you'll see that we have a screen record and if we
hit screen record we can record audio and show touches on the screen if we're
recording that screen recording so we can turn this on hit start and now
you'll see that it shows touches it'll show swipes will tap on here to stop and
then we can go to our screen recording we'll open it with photos
and you'll see that it's working and it kind of works
okay the audio isn't great hopefully it will improve over time but it's
something that's there and I hope they keep it now another feature that's new
to picture-in-picture is something I hope they keep as well and that's that
you can resize it so here's my video on the pixel feature drop we've got our
window and I had a hard time getting this to resize but basically you can
drag it around and you should be able to resize it sometimes it works you can't
just do it with two fingers you can sort of drag and get it to resize I did get
it to work once but then it sort of froze up so it is something that's there
whether or not it's fixed in the future is hard to say but hopefully they keep
the option to resize it and we can resize the window all the way around the
display now there's some new controls when you hold the power button and if we
hold power you'll see that we now have emergency at the top we have power off
restart and if I tap the three menu buttons here we have bug report we can
also add our card for Google pay and also we have controls for home so for
example we've got my nest controls built in here you can also have home controls
anything linked to home itself if I tap on backyard it takes a second it
connects and then it will show you my backyard and so there's not much to see
but it shows you that in real time right from this menu so it's a really nice way
to do that now within the power menu you may have noticed that screenshots is no
longer here and if you want a screenshot something they've moved that to recents
or multitasking so if we swipe up here maybe we want to take a screenshot we
take a screenshot and now we have the option to share or edit if we tap on the
screenshot we can edit it and this is very similar to iOS what we could circle
that and then we could share it or export it or we can just delete it so
it's a nice way to do that something a little bit new and they've also added
another option here such as select so if we go to this menu here tap on select it
will show you all of the text and you can actually select so if I tap on this
we can select this text for maybe sharing it somewhere else
this works on webpages and everything else so it's a nice little way to
quickly select something and then of course we can just share
anything here with anything suggestion so it's a really nice way to do that
very simple and intuitive now there are a few more things they've changed when
it comes to permissions and permissions has been updated so that it allows you
to set one-time permissions for example if I open this app for the first time
it's a GPS app and it says do you want to allow it to use your location so you
can say when using the app only this time deny and you can also go into the
permission settings and have it ask you every time now if you hit deny multiple
times and it recognizes that Android will prevent this app from actually
asking you if you want to use the location over and over so it's a nice
way to do that and keeps it more secure and it's really nice to see that they're
updating privacy now as far as anything else well they've updated core OS
components and what that means is it can now update through Google Play services
and systems so that it updates particular parts of the components of
the operating system in fact twelve new modules to keep everything up to date
and secure so we should see more updates seamlessly brought through Google Play
services and you won't necessarily need a full system update and that is
everything new in Android 11 beta 1 now if you want to see all the different
controls and granular things that are changed check out the developer preview
videos I showed before but these seem to be more finalized we'll see some more
betas before the final release as well if you'd like to get your hands on this
wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description as I always do and if you
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