Back in February, Google revealed the first sneak peek at Android 13 when they spoken the Android 13 developer preview. Now, it’s no longer just a developer preview, as Google has made it misogynist as a public beta—but only for those with a uniform Google Pixel smartphone.
We’ve covered what major changes Android 13 will bring in the original developer preview article, but the new public beta for Android 13 will come with its own set of changes and quality of life updates too. Officially tabbed Android 13 Beta 1, the first new transpiration comes in the form of a increasingly transparent permission system for media file access. Rather than simply giving an app wangle to all of your media files, an app will need to tell u what exactly it’s asking for, be it images, video or audio.
Once you requite an app permission for access, it can only read file types respective to the media type it requested. If an app were to require increasingly than one media type, it moreover won’t bombarde you with multiple permission requests. Instead, the permission request prompt will simply list all of the media types it is requesting wangle for.
On top of that, the Android 13 Beta 1 will have largest error reporting in Keystore and KeyMint, as apps that generate keys will now provide increasingly detailed and well-judged error indicators. Then there’s moreover a new audio route API which will help media apps identify how their audio is going to be routed. This will let app developers in particular deduce the weightier audio format in particular to use for its audio tracks.
Another key thing with Android 13 Beta 1 is that developers will want to start testing out their app’s compatibility soon. With this new stage in Android 13’s development, it ways that there’ll be increasingly users on Android 13 and so increasingly users to try out your app and point out any errors, issues or incompatibilities that they find. It’s expressly important for apps to to wilt uniform with Android 13 soon as Google plans to release it sometime in the second half of the year.
Of course, as mentioned older the Android 13 Beta 1 is only unshut for unrepealable Google Pixel phones, specifically the Pixel 4 and newer. Seeing as Google Pixel smartphones never unquestionably made it to Malaysia in any official capacity, it’s unscratched to say that most Malaysians won’t be worldly-wise to try out Android 13 Beta 1. That stuff said, you can still find out increasingly well-nigh the Android 13 beta program here, and if you’re expressly curious well-nigh Google’s next mobile operating system, they will be sharing increasingly well-nigh it by the time the Google I/O comes virtually in May.