Last February, the Android 13 adventure began. Google has released two developer previews all the while, promising to launch the first beta of android 13 during this month of April, and so it was. A few days before the end of the month he is already among us Android 13 Beta 1.
As Google has already announced, this year we won’t have to wait for the I/O 2022 conference to be able to install the first beta of the next big android update. From today the compatible devices you can try one Android 13 Preview.
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What’s new in Android 13 Beta 1
The first novelty of Android 13 Beta 1 indicated by the version name. Changing the Developer Preview family name to Beta means it’s no longer an unstable developer release to be a Beta for users who want to try Android 13 now, and Google improved stability of this version to be able to be already day by day.
In this release, Google continues to focus on Privacy and Security in Android 13releasing in Beta 1 improvements to previously released features, such as new notification permission, new photo picker, themed app icons, improved localization and language support, among other news features.
Android 13 Beta 1 also introduces a small number of new features such as more granular permissions to have access to media files. Until now, when an app wanted to play media files shared on the storage, its permission gave access to all kinds of media files. To improve user privacy and security, in Android 13 we will find a new set of permissions that request access to a specific file type:
- READ_MEDIA_IMAGES (for images and photos)
- READ_MEDIA_VIDEO (for videos)
- READ_MEDIA_AUDIO (for audio files)
Thus, if a player needs to access our internal storage to play our music, we will only have to authorize him to access the music and audio files of our device, without having to authorize him to access n any media file, so starting with Android 13, music players will no longer have to ask for permission to access our images and videos.
Compatible devices and update
As expected, Android 13 Beta 1 is now available for Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, and Pixel 6 Pro. The update will come by OTA to users who have already installed Android 13 Developer Preview.
And you Google Pixel a Android 12.1, you can easily upgrade if you enroll your device in the Android 13 Beta program. The release will arrive via OTA as a system update respecting all your user data.
Upcoming Android 13 Beta Releases
Next May, during the Google I/O 22the company will talk in more detail about the Android 13 News. In addition, for this month the launch of the second beta version of Android 13 is also announced, which could arrive during the Google developer event, that is, in two weeks.
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