1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:06,480
Android 11 is here sort of

2
00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:11,040
not really it's only the first developer preview and google has released it even

3
00:00:08,639 --> 00:00:16,480
earlier than they usually do so the few big changes that are here are still a

4
00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:21,520
little janky but that jankiness can tell us what to expect from the future of

5
00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:25,760
Android so we installed Android 11 on our pixel 4xl so you don't have to

6
00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:31,359
seriously don't get this yet but what you should

7
00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,840
get is today's sponsor ting why pay for

8
00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:37,680
things you don't need or even use with a phone plan from ting you only pay for

9
00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:45,849
what you use so check it out at the link below to find out how much you can save

10
00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:54,879
so as usual this Android developer preview can only be installed on pixel

11
00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:58,719
devices and a couple of other models essential being one

12
00:00:56,879 --> 00:01:03,120
rest in pieces it requires a bit of know-how in order to flash the os and

13
00:01:00,879 --> 00:01:07,040
has a bunch of glitches as we said a minute ago if you're not actually a

14
00:01:04,559 --> 00:01:09,920
developer you should not install this on your personal device unless you're

15
00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:15,680
looking to make your phone simultaneously more interesting and

16
00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:19,520
less usable okay so let's dive in probably the most noticeable end user

17
00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:23,600
facing feature in this release is the built-in screen recorder it's pretty

18
00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:28,080
bare bones with no options for anything like frame rate or resolution but hey

19
00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:32,479
it's it's finally there google teased us by adding this feature

20
00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,920
to the developer preview of Android 10 and then yanking it from the final

21
00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:39,759
release but while it was hidden in the developer options last year this time

22
00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,880
around it's right there in the quick settings

23
00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:47,600
which indicates we'll probably see it in the version that ships a man can dream

24
00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:51,360
next up is bubbles or as most people know them basically the facebook

25
00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:55,280
messenger chat heads this was another feature found in the Android 10

26
00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:59,280
developer options in Android 11 it's properly baked in long pressing on any

27
00:01:57,759 --> 00:02:04,159
message notification will give you the option to pop it out as an always on top

28
00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:08,399
bubble and if you find even having that option to be offensive you can disable

29
00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:12,160
bubbles for specific apps right now there's a glitch where tapping the

30
00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:15,760
bubble will open the whole app which i'm pretty sure isn't supposed to happen but

31
00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:21,120
i'm pretty sure i'm not supposed to download these developer previews either so

32
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,120
now you might also notice that messages are now grouped together in the

33
00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:29,360
notification panel under conversations so you don't have to scroll through a

34
00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:34,080
million celebrity gossip notifications before you find your friend's text

35
00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:39,599
neat i don't have those on my phone i don't have celebrities

36
00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:45,519
now for some smaller features we finally got a proper dark mode google calls it

37
00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:47,599
dark theme in Android 10 and now like do

38
00:02:45,519 --> 00:02:52,080
not disturb night light and the focus mode you can schedule it to turn on and

39
00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:56,319
off at certain times to correspond with when you're feeling more edgy pinning

40
00:02:54,239 --> 00:03:00,800
items to the share menu makes a return from freaking Android nougat bluetooth

41
00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:06,159
will stay on if you have something like headphones connected when you turn on airplane mode and the pixel 4

42
00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:11,360
specifically has another motion sense gesture tapping the air above your phone

43
00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:16,720
will pause and play music making that feature about

44
00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,640
1.65 percent more useful there's a bunch

45
00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:22,480
more tiny changes but before we get to that i want to talk about what is useful

46
00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,560
in this release because it's really the more under the hood stuff in Android 10

47
00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:31,280
we got the option to let an app use a certain permission like location access

48
00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:36,000
or audio recording all the time none of the time or only when we were using it

49
00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:40,879
and in Android 11 you can grant access to an app only this time for greater

50
00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:45,519
privacy control if you deny an app a certain permission twice it will stop

51
00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:49,920
asking you not only that but background location permissions which let an app

52
00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:54,720
grab your location anytime it wants will basically be off for all apps even

53
00:03:52,239 --> 00:03:58,080
google maps unless the user specifically goes into settings and enables it

54
00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:02,400
there's some more cool under the hood stuff 12 new modules are being added to

55
00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:06,640
project mainline that's google's initiative for streamlining Android

56
00:04:04,239 --> 00:04:10,799
updates by kind of breaking the os into chunks that can be individually updated

57
00:04:08,799 --> 00:04:14,640
through the play store instead of making people wait for the big giant system

58
00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:18,560
update to get to their phone more modules means more os elements that can

59
00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:22,720
be updated that way so you always want more modules but

60
00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:28,000
things are a bit less clear when it comes to another Android 11 change the

61
00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,560
arrival of scoped storage this is less

62
00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,880
of a new feature and more of a fundamental restructuring of the way

63
00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:39,600
Android handles its entire file system basically each app has its own isolated

64
00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:44,080
storage instead of every app having access to every part of your phone there

65
00:04:41,919 --> 00:04:48,400
would be a few common directories that every app could access like the music

66
00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:52,160
photos and downloads folders although you could grant apps like file explorers

67
00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:57,120
access to the whole system this would be a huge step forward for security and

68
00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:00,960
privacy as it means one bad app couldn't snoop around your whole system and

69
00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:06,479
message your secret cookie recipe to the whole office secret cookie recipe what

70
00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:10,639
it's it's nudes i'm talking about nudes the problem is

71
00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:14,479
some developers don't seem super down with the idea partially because a it

72
00:05:12,479 --> 00:05:19,600
requires a bunch of work to modify their apps to work with the new system and b

73
00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:24,400
google has chosen an API called storage access framework or saf that's way

74
00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:28,960
slower at reading and writing files than the existing API google basically gave

75
00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,759
devs a warning with Android 10 that they'd be making the change and there's

76
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:36,800
some indication that with some optimizations saf's performance impact

77
00:05:34,479 --> 00:05:41,520
isn't so horrible in Android 11. so hopefully either devs suck it up or

78
00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:46,080
google capitulates and chooses a different API and i'm sorry developers

79
00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:49,360
it's probably going to be the first one but don't be sad because now we're going

80
00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,600
to fly through the rest of the tiny things hidden in the developer preview

81
00:05:51,039 --> 00:05:59,280
that's fun first off swiping between home screens has a little jiggle now

82
00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:02,880
what is this Android jello sorry there's a hidden page for

83
00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,639
notification history so we might get the ability to see what notification we just

84
00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:11,199
accidentally swiped away that would be very welcome a hidden command can put

85
00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:14,800
media playback controls into the quick settings menu instead of in a

86
00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:18,240
notification which would make both the media controls and the notifications

87
00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,680
that are usually beneath it slightly easier to access in the developer

88
00:06:19,919 --> 00:06:26,479
options there's a toggle to display a fraps style refresh rate indicator but

89
00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:30,560
on the pixel 4 it only really switches between 60 and 90. so hopefully that

90
00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:35,039
gets more granular there's a settings page for battery share indicating the

91
00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:38,160
pixel 5 might be able to charge other devices like samsung's wireless power

92
00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:42,560
share cool and you can tell what bluetooth codec

93
00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:48,080
your wireless headphones or speaker is using in the developer options i like

94
00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,639
and then there are some features hidden in the code that other people on the web were able to activate but i couldn't

95
00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,880
because i'm just a simple boy you might be able

96
00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,080
to customize a double tap on the back of pixel phones to launch a particular app

97
00:06:59,039 --> 00:07:04,000
you might be able to split the notifications and quick settings menus

98
00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:08,639
so you can swipe on the left or right side to only call down one or the other

99
00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,479
and you might be able to choose specific colors for your quick settings icons so

100
00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:19,360
you can differentiate them more easily oh wait you can definitely do that

101
00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:22,160
because i did it with some adb commands

102
00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:26,240
a kid on my level but again all of those features may or may not make it to the

103
00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:31,120
final release of Android 11 when it launches probably with the pixel 5 this

104
00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:34,960
fall google just throws us some crumbs and we have to

105
00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:39,360
either eat them or buy a non-pixel phone and install a

106
00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,800
launcher and get all these features through third-party apps anyway

107
00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:47,440
so really either way you can get what you want

108
00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:52,560
and if what you want to do is mask your ip and encrypt traffic to and from your

109
00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:54,720
device you want private internet access

110
00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:59,280
they have reliable service with over 3 000 servers in 30 countries there's no

111
00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:03,840
bandwidth caps and with configurable encryption and an internet kill switch

112
00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:07,360
you are in control of your connection when combined with private browsing it

113
00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:11,280
can even make websites think you're in a different country connect up to five

114
00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:16,560
devices at once with clients for Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux and their

115
00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:21,199
mace feature blocks requests to known malware and tracking domains altogether

116
00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:24,080
so it's awesome check it out today at the link below

117
00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,599
hey thanks for watching guys if you're looking for something else to watch now

118
00:08:25,599 --> 00:08:33,950
go watch the video where we installed Android on a nintendo switch

119
00:08:29,919 --> 00:08:40,139
so it's a blue let's blow your mind dude