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Just a day after its first security update became available, Google’s latest affordable phone, the Pixel 5a, is now eligible to join the Android 12 Beta. Google’s final Android 12 Beta has been launched into the world today, serving as a “release candidate” for what Pixel owners can expect when Android 12 launches later this year. If you’ve been keeping up with Android 12 up to this…

Google is bringing a whole new design to Android 12 with “Material You,” and that includes the first formal widget revamp the platform has seen in the better part of a decade. Now, in Android 12 Beta 5, Google has finally debuted a taste of its preferred design for Material You widgets in the form of some clock widgets. The new clock widgets in Android 12 Beta 5 come with v7.0 of the Google…

Material You is the biggest story in Android design in years, but with a full launch of Android 12 around the corner, we haven’t seen many full makeovers to reflect the aesthetic. With Android 12 Beta 5, Google Clock has also picked up a massive Material You update. The new Material You version of Google Clock is only a visual update, but it’s a major update by any measurement. The entire…

Material You is in full swing as we approach the stable release of Android 12, and in Beta 5 today Google has rolled out a few big Material You updates including the teased revamp of Calculator. The new Google Calculator update in Android 12 finally went live in Beta 5 after being left absent from past releases. This update has been long awaited since May, when Google showed the revamped UI…