hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Android Q beta 5 was released to
all supported devices so it's available to all the supported devices under beta
4 and I'll leave a list here on the left now the first change has to do with the
boot up sequence for the actual phone you'll see it has a new dark theme so
just has the word Google but the background is completely black now we've
got the G and then powered by Android so that's pretty nice it boots up nice and
fast and the first change this is very subtle but the actual line thickness of
the lock up here seems to be a little bit thinner there's also a couple
gesture marks down here we'll talk more about gestures in just a moment let me
go ahead and unlock the phone now if we go into the notification drawer you'll
see there's more consistency with the new accent colors so I've got a blue
accent color selected and you'll see under mobile data it's actually still
accented so everything has this nice blue accent color to it and you can see
battery saver all of these do so it's just more consistent across the UI and
as you can see here is the build number and this build is qpp 5.1 9:05 3 0.014
and that's on a pixel 3 XL so that's the current build number for this device now
the next thing is in the notification drawer there's different types of
notifications so we've got an old navy one here and then silent notifications
there's dual sections and this has to do more with the digital health and
well-being so if I turn the display off turn it back on now you'll see the
notification is on the lockscreen I can take action on this here or unlock it
but things that are less important to me based on my usage will be under silent
notifications so you've got silent notifications down here now and it's
just something new we can swipe that off see our silent notification say it's
useful or not and Google will adjust it based on that with on on Android so
that's one of the major changes also there's a slight change on the home
screen here if we tap on one of the folders you'll see that it's actually a
little bit lighter in its actual hue to the folder itself
so that's changed nothing really major there but as far as the gestures are
concerned we can turn the gestures off if you don't like them I actually
you really like them especially in this particular beta let's go into the
settings here and I'll show you where you can adjust those so if you go down
to the bottom go to system and then under gestures you now have the app the
ability to turn it on or off you always had that so system navigation if you
don't like the gesture navigation you can switch it to two button or three
button and that's fine you can continue to use that but with this new gesture
animation let's go home here with this new gesture animation you'll see we've
got a couple little marks in the corners and those are to signify that we can
open google assistant by swiping from either corner so it opens it up so
that's a little bit new gestures seem a little bit more playful so if I open
this app and then I toss it away you'll see there might be a little bit of a bug
here and there but if I go into this app toss it away it goes up and then back
down into the icon so up and back down into the icon it's kind of nice and
playful also there's a little change if I squeeze the device on one of the pixel
phones if I squeeze it ever so slightly it says squeeze to talk and you'll see
we'll do that again you'll see more I squeeze it it shows up down here it's
just a little bit different and then says squeeze to talk so that's kind of
nice and I don't know that it's necessary but it's there now if you go
into say the App Store you have a new little peek or slide over peek if you
put your finger here for a second you can kind of peek into your little
settings drawer here so you can peek into that it's fully gestural but you
can't just go like this that's a back movement you have to go into it hold
your finger here and then it's kind of a peek movement there we go and you can
peek into your settings there on the side so that's kind of nice just
something that's a little bit new and then there's another thing when it comes
to screen pinning if you if you used pinning before you can now pin again but
there's a gesture to get out of it so if you tap here at the top then go to pin
you'll see it says screen as pinned this keeps it in view until you unpin it
swipe up and hold on pin so we swipe up hold you'll feel the phone actually give
a little haptic feedback and then we can swipe it away
so if we don't do that little motion there we go in here we pin it again
we can't get out of it if we swipe we'll just scroll but if we hold our finger
here will feel a haptic feedback again and then we can get out so it's kind of
nice and you can turn that off or on it's actually off by default now if we
go to notifications we can slide over to the right here there used to be a little
icon to silence the notification that's now turned off by default
now you can re-enable it by going into your settings going to apps and
notifications then going to notifications and the Hennis scroll down
to advanced and now we have the ability to allow notifications snoozing right
here we can turn that on if we go back to our notification and slide over we
should have the ability well maybe it'll take a minute to come in but we should
have the ability to snooze that notification so that brings it back you
can also now disable the app suggestions down here in the bottom before you could
do that on previous betas you can disable that again if you don't want
those so if you want to disable this we can go in here you'll see under our home
settings if we go to suggestions and for some reason it goes to the light theme
we have apps we can turn off the app suggestions so if we turn those off it
won't suggest them I prefer to keep them on but that's something that's a little
bit new there's a feature that's returned from earlier versions of this
beta that now allow you to kind of force a dark theme into apps like Instagram
that don't have it by default so in order to do that you need to have the
dark theme enabled already on the android q beta then go into your
settings and you need to make sure you have developer settings turned on then
you go to system go to advanced go to developer options and then you're gonna
scroll down it's gonna take you a little bit to find it and you're looking for
the section called hardware accelerated rendering and you're looking for
override force dark so if we turn that on and then go back home and open
something like Instagram and then we're on one of my posts here you'll see that
it's got a dark theme to it so it looks really good it's got a nice dark theme
and you can override that for pretty much any app that doesn't already have
dark mode such as Instagram or anything else really Twitter already as
a dark one so it won't work in that specifically and that's really it
everything seems to be actually quite fast in this particular update scrolling
is super smooth opening and closing apps is super smooth and it seems to work
much better at least on beta 5 than it did on beta 4 for me so I'll let you
know how it is in the next video but let me know what you think of this in the
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