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Android 11 is here sort of

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not really it's only the first developer preview and google has released it even

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earlier than they usually do so the few big changes that are here are still a

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little janky but that jankiness can tell us what to expect from the future of

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Android so we installed Android 11 on our pixel 4xl so you don't have to

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so as usual this Android developer preview can only be installed on pixel

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devices and a couple of other models essential being one

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rest in pieces it requires a bit of know-how in order to flash the os and

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has a bunch of glitches as we said a minute ago if you're not actually a

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developer you should not install this on your personal device unless you're

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looking to make your phone simultaneously more interesting and

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less usable okay so let's dive in probably the most noticeable end user

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facing feature in this release is the built-in screen recorder it's pretty

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bare bones with no options for anything like frame rate or resolution but hey

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it's it's finally there google teased us by adding this feature

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to the developer preview of Android 10 and then yanking it from the final

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release but while it was hidden in the developer options last year this time

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around it's right there in the quick settings

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which indicates we'll probably see it in the version that ships a man can dream

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next up is bubbles or as most people know them basically the facebook

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messenger chat heads this was another feature found in the Android 10

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developer options in Android 11 it's properly baked in long pressing on any

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message notification will give you the option to pop it out as an always on top

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bubble and if you find even having that option to be offensive you can disable

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bubbles for specific apps right now there's a glitch where tapping the

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bubble will open the whole app which i'm pretty sure isn't supposed to happen but

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i'm pretty sure i'm not supposed to download these developer previews either so

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now you might also notice that messages are now grouped together in the

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notification panel under conversations so you don't have to scroll through a

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million celebrity gossip notifications before you find your friend's text

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neat i don't have those on my phone i don't have celebrities

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now for some smaller features we finally got a proper dark mode google calls it

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dark theme in Android 10 and now like do

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not disturb night light and the focus mode you can schedule it to turn on and

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off at certain times to correspond with when you're feeling more edgy pinning

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items to the share menu makes a return from freaking Android nougat bluetooth

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will stay on if you have something like headphones connected when you turn on airplane mode and the pixel 4

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specifically has another motion sense gesture tapping the air above your phone

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will pause and play music making that feature about

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1.65 percent more useful there's a bunch

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more tiny changes but before we get to that i want to talk about what is useful

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in this release because it's really the more under the hood stuff in Android 10

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we got the option to let an app use a certain permission like location access

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or audio recording all the time none of the time or only when we were using it

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and in Android 11 you can grant access to an app only this time for greater

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privacy control if you deny an app a certain permission twice it will stop

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asking you not only that but background location permissions which let an app

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grab your location anytime it wants will basically be off for all apps even

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google maps unless the user specifically goes into settings and enables it

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there's some more cool under the hood stuff 12 new modules are being added to

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project mainline that's google's initiative for streamlining Android

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updates by kind of breaking the os into chunks that can be individually updated

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through the play store instead of making people wait for the big giant system

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update to get to their phone more modules means more os elements that can

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be updated that way so you always want more modules but

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things are a bit less clear when it comes to another Android 11 change the

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arrival of scoped storage this is less

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of a new feature and more of a fundamental restructuring of the way

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Android handles its entire file system basically each app has its own isolated

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storage instead of every app having access to every part of your phone there

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would be a few common directories that every app could access like the music

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photos and downloads folders although you could grant apps like file explorers

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access to the whole system this would be a huge step forward for security and

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privacy as it means one bad app couldn't snoop around your whole system and

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message your secret cookie recipe to the whole office secret cookie recipe what

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it's it's nudes i'm talking about nudes the problem is

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some developers don't seem super down with the idea partially because a it

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requires a bunch of work to modify their apps to work with the new system and b

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google has chosen an API called storage access framework or saf that's way

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slower at reading and writing files than the existing API google basically gave

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devs a warning with Android 10 that they'd be making the change and there's

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some indication that with some optimizations saf's performance impact

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isn't so horrible in Android 11. so hopefully either devs suck it up or

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google capitulates and chooses a different API and i'm sorry developers

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it's probably going to be the first one but don't be sad because now we're going

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to fly through the rest of the tiny things hidden in the developer preview

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that's fun first off swiping between home screens has a little jiggle now

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what is this Android jello sorry there's a hidden page for

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notification history so we might get the ability to see what notification we just

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accidentally swiped away that would be very welcome a hidden command can put

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media playback controls into the quick settings menu instead of in a

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notification which would make both the media controls and the notifications

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that are usually beneath it slightly easier to access in the developer

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options there's a toggle to display a fraps style refresh rate indicator but

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on the pixel 4 it only really switches between 60 and 90. so hopefully that

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gets more granular there's a settings page for battery share indicating the

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pixel 5 might be able to charge other devices like samsung's wireless power

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share cool and you can tell what bluetooth codec

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your wireless headphones or speaker is using in the developer options i like

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and then there are some features hidden in the code that other people on the web were able to activate but i couldn't

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because i'm just a simple boy you might be able

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to customize a double tap on the back of pixel phones to launch a particular app

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you might be able to split the notifications and quick settings menus

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so you can swipe on the left or right side to only call down one or the other

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and you might be able to choose specific colors for your quick settings icons so

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you can differentiate them more easily oh wait you can definitely do that

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because i did it with some adb commands

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a kid on my level but again all of those features may or may not make it to the

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final release of Android 11 when it launches probably with the pixel 5 this

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fall google just throws us some crumbs and we have to

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either eat them or buy a non-pixel phone and install a

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launcher and get all these features through third-party apps anyway

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so really either way you can get what you want

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device you want private internet access

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bandwidth caps and with configurable encryption and an internet kill switch

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you are in control of your connection when combined with private browsing it

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hey thanks for watching guys if you're looking for something else to watch now

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go watch the video where we installed Android on a nintendo switch

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so it's a blue let's blow your mind dude