Android 11’s first Developer Preview just landed today and it brings along with it a handful of new features. If you’ve got a Pixel 4, though, Android 11 brings a new Motion Sense gesture and touch sensitivity options on Android 11 too.
Spotted by , Motion Sense on Pixel 4 gets a small, but meaningful upgrade with the Android 11 update. Now, Pixel 4’s Soli sensor will recognize when your…
Here’s everything new in Android 11 Developer Preview 1 [Gallery]
February 19, 2020
In starting with a preview — rather than beta, the first release of Android 11 is “for developers only” and not focused on delivering user-facing changes. That said, we’ve flashed the DP1 factory images to chronicle all the new features.
Over the coming hours…
More than 40% of U.S. federal agencies and departments have experimented with AI tools, but only 15% currently use highly sophisticated AI, according to analysis by Stanford University computer scientists published today in “Government by Algorithm,” a joint report from…
Android 11 DP1: Screen recorder arrives w/ Quick Settings toggle
February 19, 2020
Screen recording is a feature Google has weirdly been avoiding for a while on Android, but the foundation has been laid over the past few releases to finally deliver this functionality. Now, with Android 11, the native screen recorder is here with a new quick settings toggle.
Hidden by default, this new quick settings toggle immediately starts Android 11’s screen recorder. This feature is …
Android 11 DP1: Notifications add ‘dedicated conversations section’ for message apps
February 19, 2020
One of the things I’ve always loved about Android is notifications, and over the years Google has tweaked the system to make it better and, in many ways, more powerful. Now, with Android 11’s debut, Google is shaking things up a bit with a new section of notifications…
Reports indicate that we’re just a month away from the official announcement of Apple’s long-rumored low-cost iPhone 9. Ahead of that announcement, sketchy rumors and images are starting to gain traction, and this year, they have a new platform: TikTok, which is where a…
Last year, Android 10 let users limit an application’s location access to only when it’s actively in use. Android 11 later this year builds on that with one-time access, as well as a new Google Play policy that requires “developers get approval if they want to access location data in the background.”
This policy change is aimed at older versions of the operating system, and will be…
New security and privacy features of Android 11: one-time permissions, scoped storage, more
February 19, 2020
With each year’s upgrade to Android, folks are normally looking for exciting visual changes, and to an extent, Android 11 delivers, with the new Bubbles API and changes to conversation notifications. That said, a great deal more lies underneath the surface of Android 11…
Dark theme was one of the biggest reveals in Android 10 and now, it’s getting a much-requested upgrade in Android 11. Starting with the first developer preview for the next version of Android, dark theme scheduling has arrived.
The inability to schedule dark theme in…
In addition to laying out what’s new, Google today provided a timeline for Android 11. There will be six releases in total with the first half considered developer previews, and the rest as betas. Similar to past years, Android 11 will launch sometime in Q3 2020.
With Android Q last year, all six versions were classified as having “beta” quality by Google. The first three Android 11 builds…
