hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and Android 11 developer preview 2 is now
out - all supported pixel devices so that means pixel - all the way to pixel
4 + 4 XL but this is a Developer Preview and not recommended for regular use in
fact just setting this wallpaper actually made the device crash so this
is not meant for everyday daily use but there are some changes in this and there
will be a beta for this a little bit later that will be available to the
public so I would wait for that now the first thing is the build number if we
take a look at the build number you'll see it's Android r RPP.20027.009
and this update brings some interesting changes throughout the OS
and the first one is the easter egg is back so if you go into settings go into
the Android version number and then we just keep tapping on Android R and it
shows Android 10 so they haven't updated the easter egg but it's back now
settings shows new Wi-Fi at the top so it shows Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices so
that's something new they've just changed where it is it's permanent it
doesn't move now they've also added the addition of requiring your eyes to be
open if you want to set that setting on or off for a pixel 4 or 4 XL with the
face unlock so if I go down to security and then I go to face unlock I'll put in
my pin now you can see it says require eyes to be open to unlock the phone and
I have tried this I turned the phone off turned it back on kept my eyes closed it
didn't unlock until I opened my eyes and so it seems to work just fine so that's
nice that they've added this and this may be coming to potentially the April
security update for pixel devices and Samsung phones and things like that so
expect that probably sooner rather than later but who knows at this point it may
not come out until Android 11 releases no notifications get a lot of changes
and you can see the first notification here at the top and before I talk about
those changes you can see the font is a little bit bigger and the spacing is a
little bit different it's sort of transparent or slightly transparent
through the different separated notifications and I like how they've
separated this a little bit so this looks a lot better to me than it
did previously and you can see here's a conversation I just started from my
other phone I messaged myself and we have a couple options and one of the
options I've already turned on is when Do Not Disturb is on it will still show
my conversation if I select that option so if I press and hold I have some
options and let me show you what I mean and you can see there were some bugs so
Do Not Disturb was on I tried to press and hold it didn't work but after I
press and hold you've got some options so I can flag this is important now so I
can tap on this flag it is important and then I can go into settings within
settings I've got some options if I tap on my phone number at the bottom it says
not a conversation and I can remove this from the conversation and you can add it
back later now let's go back one menu and then if I tap on incoming messages
down at the bottom tap on advanced and you'll see it says override Do Not
Disturb and that's what's turned on currently so you can make this one
specific conversation overridden over all of the other things so maybe you
want Do Not Disturb turned on but you want to get important information from
your significant other or a family member you can do that in Android 11
Developer Preview too now there's one other option in here as well and let's
go back we'll go into settings and I'll show you how to get there you go to
settings and then you go to apps and notifications you go to notifications
then you go down to advanced under advanced you now have the option to hide
silent notifications in the status bar so if you've already silenced a
notification it won't show up in the status bar on top so you have that as a
new option as well now another change they've made to the notification shade
is there's a history button so you can go into this and it's turned off by
default but we'll go into this and if you turn it on you can see your history
of messages and recently dismissed if we scroll down you can see what we have
today that we installed so I actually had to set this up it wipes the device
you have to reset up everything and you can see all of the different
notifications so that's a new edition you can turn it off like I said now
they've updated the wallpaper picker to be a little bit nicer to use so let's go
into that press and hold the home screen go to styles
wallpapers and you'll see it looks a little bit different than what you might
be familiar with so now we have my photos and come alive and living
universe and there they're grouped into different squares so if we go into come
alive for example you can select what you want to use if we go into expand
your collection you can download this if you don't have it or you can go into say
this one here the doodle customize the different colors set the wallpaper and
it'll be a nice just a better way to kind of see the wallpapers in general
now we also have this clock section on the bottom and this looks like we're
going to be able to customize the lockscreen
but the only thing there right now is a clock so maybe we'll have different
clocks for the homescreen later on as people update this developers update it
with maybe some widgets or something along those lines but right now that's
all there is and there's not much going on with it now there's a little update
to the volume section so if I press volume down or volume up and go to the
more section here you can see that they've condensed this section so that
it's a little bit smaller and reachable with one hand and so you can see ring
and notification volume is condensed into one slider instead of multiple
sliders so it's just a little bit different I think it's a little bit
better easier to reach with one hand so they've updated that as well they've
also updated accessibility so you can access it from the lock screen so if we
go into settings again and then we go to accessibility here we go down to let's
find it here advanced and then allow from lock screen you can see it says
that when the shortcut is on you can press it both volume keys for three
seconds to start an accessibility feature now if I go to the lock screen
press and hold volume up and volume down it turns on accessibility and you'll
hear talkback so we'll swipe to open so you can see
once I push volume you've got accessibility as well if I press and
hold both it turns back off so you have that option now if you have it set it's
just a nice little addition from the lock screen now they've updated screen
recording with a proper user interface so if I go into my quick settings you'll
see it says screen record now if you're not seeing this you can edit your quick
settings with this little pencil here and just update it it's
usually in there and once you press screen record you now have a nice user
interface and it will record audio with microphone so you can turn that on hit
start and you'll see it countdown in the upper right and now it's screen
recording so it vibrated they let me know it's screen recording I can swipe
right or left go into the app launcher and then go here tap to stop my screen
recording and now I have the screen recording and I can go into this will
open it with photos I suppose now it works fine but the audio quality is not
so great so hopefully they improve that since the microphone on the pixel is
actually pretty good now there's a few updates within settings so if we go to
settings here and then we go to security then we scroll down to advanced under
advanced at the bottom is confirmed sim deletion verify it's you before erasing
a downloaded sim so we now have that we can turn that on as a new option for
security which is really nice and then also there's a couple new things within
the developer options so let's go over to developer options now in developer
options if we scroll down to where we have USB debugging we now have a
wireless debugging so we can turn that on and use this over the wireless
network makes it a little bit easier without a cable there's also an update
to show different display types if you develop for them now you'll see display
cut out and we now have the option for waterfall cut out so if you have a
waterfall display similar to a Samsung s10 for example where it folds over the
edge a little bit now you can see where everything's centered if you're
developing for that we'll just go back go back to device cutout as default and
it goes back to normal and that's it for Android 11 Developer Preview - that's
everything within this every major change there have been a few things
found in the code as far as possible changes in the future to different UI
and things like that but right now that's everything you can physically see
so let me know what you think in the comments below if you found anything
else I'd love to hear from you as well and again
sure you wait for the beta if you're running this on your daily driver
because it's not so stable so just setting this wallpaper crashed my device
three times but let me know your thoughts in the comments below of course
I'll link this wallpaper in the description as I always do if you
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