The Google I/O event allowed us to learn more about Android 14, as well as to test it on our devices (compatible, it should be noted that Google has opened the range to more brands and models beyond of his Pixel) after downloading his second beta. There is little left until with the summer Android 14 reaches our phones. Maybe The news that occurred in Android 14 are not revolutionary, but they will improve the experience with our phones. These are the most interesting.
Say goodbye to passwords with access keys
Although security keys are already here, the reality is that there is still a long way to go before the use of security keys or security keys extends to third-party apps and software. For this, we will have to wait at least until Android 14.
Why him new android 14 credential manager It will help those who have this operating system to activate it step by step. In all honesty, we will surely have to wait longer for the majority of applications to be compatible, but according to Google, with Android 14, it will reach 1Password, Dashlane, Keeper or Okta.
More transparency with data and privacy policy changes
They say when something is free it’s because the product is you and the truth is that if an app doesn’t cost you anything other than advertising it’s probably collect personal data whose destination is not clear.
That’s why in Android 14 you will receive monthly reports that will notify you if apps have changed their data sharing policies. In the event that an application shares your location with third parties, a warning will appear to let you know and display more information about it. This data will be available in the Data Security section of Google Play.
No more full screen spam
Google has decided that these full screen urgent notifications They shouldn’t be available for any app, so from Android 14 they will only be used for incoming calls and alarms.
flash notifications
If you’re that kind of person who always has the quiet phone and doesn’t like vibration, Android 14 incorporates a new form of notice so you don’t miss a thing: You can flash the flash intermittently or even the whole screen.
Improved ‘Find my device’
A long-awaited improvement (especially considering how useful it was and the fact that it already existed in the Apple ecosystem) is that “Find My Device” will Let’s locate our Android phones even when they have no internet connection.
The return we deserve
Predictive recoil was an outstanding issue in Android and in fact, although we’ve seen it before in Android 13, but Android 14 finally completes it on a sensory level thanks to animations. The idea is that before going back on a page, you can see what is before.
Protection against loud sound exposure
Among the novelties of the second beta of Android 14 are the headphones loud volume alerts. Please note, this is not the same as the warning that appears when you turn up the volume: this function will accumulate the time you spend listening to music at high volume to warn you when you exceed a certain threshold .
What are you still ignoring the warnings? In this case, the volume will be automatically lowered after the appearance of this message:
Be careful, you have exceeded 5 times the number of loud beeps that can be safely heard in a week with headphones. The volume has been reduced to protect your hearing.
More customization with Material You
Hardware You have landed with Android 12 and it will be in Android 14 when it reaches its maximum expression, appearing on the lock screen with more widgets that we can see without unlocking the terminal and match the accent colors of our wallpaper.
As for wallpapers, we can create our own using personal photos and the parallax effect. If you have a Google Pixel, you can create new wallpapers from emojis, change the color, add or remove emoticons and also thanks to Midjourney-style artificial intelligence
larger texts
Nail great improvement in accessibility which my mom will really appreciate: 200% font scaling, but not linear (which would make the look worse).
A more useful share button
When you’re in an app and click on share, what appears is called a ‘share sheet’. Well, Android 14 will give third-party development teams a line of their own so they can integrate their dedicated and custom features.
The connected, unified and integrated Health application
Google Fit is gone, in its place is the Health Connect app, which will allow your health apps to share data with your phone and vice versa, and is likely pre-installed on phones. In short, what with Android 14, health will be integrated into the platform.
As explained by Google, from Android you will receive updates via Google Play System Updates no separate download needed.
Respect for regional preferences
I don’t know how many times panic has spread through me looking at the calendar and being afraid to find the different days, leading me to think that I am no longer reaching a certain event or milestone. Because in the calendar here weeks start on Monday, not Sunday, Celsius is used for temperature, not Fahrenheit.
Android will allow you to set these kinds of preferences or if your native language has a gender and will provide a grammar API so that localized or localized applications are properly targeted to those who use them.
Lossless USB Audio
Although you may already be able to do this at the expense of the headset controlling the process, which affects for example the sound of alarms and sound, Android 14 is coming a standardized API for lossless high-resolution playback for USB headsets from different manufacturers.
HDR photos on unsupported phones
If you have a high-end phone that supports HDR and you take pictures with this option enabled, you can these photos will not load properly on older models.
So that they too can see them, Android 14 introduces a new type of JPEG image which is actually two– A normal SDR image that can be read on traditional displays and a “gain map” that captures the extreme brightness only available on HDR displays. It also embeds metadata to combine them.
So the older phone reads it as a normal JPEG but the more advanced models interpret it in its entirety, as a full 10-bit HDR image.
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