Google has shared info on how, starting with Android 13, any app can offer their own Themed Icon to appear in the Pixel Launcher and more.
With Android 12, Google launched a “beta” feature for the Pixel Launcher called Themed Icons which gives many of Google’s apps a new monochrome icon suited to your Material You theme. To do this, the Pixel Launcher had a built-in catalog of icons to…
How to install the Android 13 preview on Google Pixel
February 11, 2022
Android 13 is several months away from its formal debut, but Google has opened up the first previews for its latest mobile operating system today with new features and more. If you’re on a Google Pixel smartphone, you can install Android 13 now. Here’s how, and why you…
Android 13 gets accelerated release timeline with earlier start to betas
February 11, 2022
Google today highlighted the first set of features coming with Android 13. The release timeline was also shared, and it revealed that Android 13’s consumer launch might be coming earlier than usual.
For starters, there will only be one other Android 13 developer preview.
Here’s everything new in Android 13 Developer Preview 1 [Gallery]
February 11, 2022
The first release of the next version of Android is a preview that’s only meant for developers and not delivering major user-facing changes. That said, join us as we chronicle all the new features and changes in Android 13 DP1 for Pixel phones.
Over the coming hours, we’ll dive into all of Android 13 DP1’s new features and every single change. (The newest updates will be at the top of this…
Android 13 DP1: New system-wide photo picker streamlines sharing
February 11, 2022
The first preview of Android 13 has arrived, and with it some new tweaks to how the OS we’ve come to know and love. Included in the first developer preview of Android 13 is Google’s new system-wide photo picker, which is meant to streamline the experience.
Android has…
Android has long featured the ability to have multiple user profiles on the same device, effectively allowing someone to share a phone or tablet without allowing access to each other’s data. In Android 13, Google is adding the ability for guest profiles to get access to…
The Pixel series’ Quick Tap gesture is now more helpful than ever, with the option to toggle your flashlight.
Starting with Android 12 last year, newer Pixel phones gained a “Quick Tap” gesture that lets you perform a variety of actions on your phone without digging through menus. At launch, Google offered a handful of preset options like taking screenshots, activating the Google…
Google did away with public-facing desert names with the release of Android 10, but they’re still used internally. It’s been known for some time that Android 13 is called “Tiramisu,” and now Google is explicitly using that name in the first developer preview.
If…
Android 13 DP1: Silent mode now fully disables all interaction-based haptic feedback
February 11, 2022
While digging through the Android 13 Developer Preview 1 build we’ve spotted that the in-built “Silent mode” now completely disables haptic feedback across almost all areas of your Pixel device.
For those confused by this, in Android 12/12L and older builds when you…
Android 13 DP1: Taskbar for big-screen devices grows to six slots, supports ‘suggested’ apps
February 11, 2022
Android is getting better for bigger screens thanks to improvements in Android 12L, and it seems Google is expanding on that experience. In the first developer preview for Android 13, we can now see that the taskbar has grown and now shows “suggested” apps.
The taskbar introduced in Android 12L now supports six slots as of Android 13, up one from only five slots in the current Android 12L…
