Finally, Android 12 Developer Preview 1 is available. We now have access to the OS’s initial development thanks to Google’s public announcement of the OS. With the first Android app development, users may now install it on suitable devices. This blog gives you a sneak peek at the Android 12 Developer Preview’s confirmed features.  

Google is expanding and introducing several features in its current Android version. The haptic feedback and privacy improvements, as well as the changes to notification support and media management, strike the spot. Continue reading for a thorough explanation of the verified Android 12 Developer Preview features!

Major Features Confirmed for Android 12

  • Support for AVIF Images

Launching with Android 12 is AVIF image support. This picture format offers better image quality than JPEG without the cost of bigger file sizes. The open-source video codec AV1 is used in this format.

  • Lock Screen

With Android 12, the background layer of the lock screen is translucent. Additionally, the animation for pattern unlocks seems a bit animated.

  • Wi-fi Sharing Is Made More Accessible.

Barcode scanning in Android 12 is not necessary. Just choose the ‘Nearby’ button located under the QR code. It will use Android’s Nearby Share function to send the Wi-Fi information to anybody you want.

This function allows you to share the connection information with many individuals in addition to scanning the QR code without needing your phone to check for everyone.

  • Simple Accessibility Options

The accessibility settings menu is improved in Android 12. The main page only offers the most critical settings, although less often used features like color correction, display size, and font size are now grouped under sections like Display and Text.

  • Several Insertions of Content

Google has introduced a new unified API that enables you to accept material from any source, including drag and drop, the keyboard, or the clipboard, to make inserting content simpler.

You may add a new interface called On Receive Content Listener to UI components whenever the content is inserted via any system in order to get a callback. All content insertion, including styled and plain text, photos, markup, audio files, videos, and other types of media, must now be handled by this callback.

  • Audio Effects Paired with Haptics

Google has allowed developers to combine haptic feedback patterns with audio in Android 12. The amplitude and duration of vibrations are taken from aural cues that make notifications or media playing more enjoyable.

  • Multiple-Channel Audio

Numerous enhancements to audio using structural data are included in Android 12. The resamplers, audio mixers, and effects are tuned for almost 24 channels, and it offers help for MPEG-H playback in offload and pass-through mode.

  • Better Cookie Control

WebView now supports SameSite cookie behavior thanks to Android 12. Developers may advertise the need to limit a cookie to a particular site using the SameSite functionality. The handling of cookies across many apps and the OS on Android 12 must be improved by this addition. The best Android browsers already support this functionality.

  • Improved Widgets

Android widgets are pretty similar. Google is attempting to include dynamic gadgets into Android 12 as Apple did with iOS 12 last year. Users may now scroll right or left on the same widgets thanks to the addition of what looks to be a widget stack by the firm.

This characteristic is currently concealed but needs to become visible shortly. Furthermore, there may be plans to develop the conversation widget from Android 12.

  • Improved Notifications

Android 12 will overhaul its notification system to improve usability, aesthetics, and usefulness. Google is updating the animations, transitions, controls, and drawer. Additionally, responsiveness was an aim. With Android 12, developers can do away with receivers, middle-man broadcast providers, and trampolines.

  • Alerts for Android 12

Users are bounced from the notice to the application through trampolines. In Android 12, Google wants notification buttons to direct users directly to the application. Additionally, the company is postponing the display of specific foreground service messages by up to 10 seconds. It will give users a long time to do small activities before the interruption.

  • Improvements to PiP (Picture-in-Picture)

Although this capability has been available since Android Oreo, its usefulness has been relatively limited. With Android 11, Google finally provided the ability to resize the PiP window by holding and dragging a right cornet. However, the process is still not remarkably fluid.

It has been resolved with Android 12’s new pinch-to-zoom capabilities for PiP.

  • Google Play Updates for Android

Google Play system upgrades (project mainline) will get more significant funding from the company to provide apps with a more stable and secure environment across various devices.

The ART (Android Runtime) module, introduced to Android 12, enables it to distribute updates to the actual runtime and libraries on Android 12.

Google may improve runtime functionality and accuracy without requiring a complete system upgrade, manage memory more efficiently, and speed up Kotlin operations.

Additionally, it has increased the functionality of the existing modules; for instance, Google now includes a module that can be updated with its compatible media transcoding tool.

Conclusion

These elements have come over while Android 12 Developer Preview 1. Many more features have come up, which have become the most popular among Android app development companies.