wow i'm not a kid anymore yup you're 13.
honestly you haven't matured much this year but turns out the numbers go up
anyway that's right
with the launch of version 13 Android has left its awkward tweens behind
beginning its long journey into its stylish teams
some of the highlights include greater customization take that apple better
privacy and better bluetooth than ever but
will they stay on the right path or will they fall in with that crowd
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language allowing you to make it more you er
on 12 using the auto themer you could customize your phone with four generated
color palettes pulled from your phone's wallpaper or just four basic colors
which is pretty okay but now you get 12
palettes that can use complementary colors that aren't necessarily found in
your wallpaper will google graciously allow you to choose the colors yourself
though maybe in 14 not today but color changes can be
applied to other apps now while there aren't too many applications out there
that support material use auto theming yet the concept is pretty cool when it
works also third-party apps can now take advantage of themed icons though we only
came across a single app that did so relay for reddit so if you're looking
for that perfectly themed home screen you'll still have to do it yourself with
a custom icon pack but don't worry about that look at this new media player it's
got a squiggly line now in all seriousness though it is nice to
be able to scrub audio without pulling the notification shade all the way down
and the dynamic theming to match your album art looks pretty cool without
giving up any functionality it's like the ltte backpack it looks great has
tons of amazing pockets and is built to last lttestore.com
oh yeah and tucked in that notification shade you'll find a convenient button
for quick draw qr code scanning that's right finally after two painful years of
pandemicking you no longer have to remember if you scan qr codes in your
camera app or the google app or that third party one that you got when you're
trying to read the freaking drink menu another welcome convenience is the
option to control your home devices from a locked state
i personally wouldn't recommend doing that though i mean you don't want some
nefarious actor getting control of your smart home after they steal your phone
but then again if mark zuckerberg basically already lives in your house
what difference does it make brisket ribs i hope a lot
i seriously wouldn't really do this unless you only have smart lights and a
smart popcorn maker no doors no security cameras the next thing is way up my
alley though you know those pesky notifications from
that random idol game you downloaded or even twitter for that matter they have
notifications for everything in that app well forget about them because app
notifications are now opt in in Android 13 thank you
google as someone with an endless stream of notifications this really helps me
make sure that i never miss a Floatplane upload sometimes we upload pet
pictures other times hilarious behind the scenes or other exclusives check it
out on Floatplane.com another thing i'm thankful for is the return of google
assistant to the home button for us stalwart three button navigation fans
you can still hold the lock button if you want but now you have the option to
do it the way nature intended you know what you can't do though get rid of the
bloody at a glance widget i should be able to move or remove
anything i want from my home screen forget about material u i want material
me damn one of my other favorite editions is the new clipboard widget
alert thing when you copy a piece of text a small preview pops up in the
bottom of your screen which gives you quick access to a share button and if
you click the text preview you can actually edit the text you copied before
you share it as someone who's always sending important information to people
this is an absolute life saver like when you copy text from google lens and it
slightly misinterprets it you can fix it right then and there and forward it off
and google now automatically empties your clipboard after an hour keeping any
copy pasted passwords safe and sound
and there's even more good stuff thanks to google's feigned interest in user
privacy thank you apple by the way no like for real this is not a sarcastic thank you
apple because your feigned interest in user privacy has really put pressure on
google to match you in Android 13 when an app wants you to
upload media say for a profile picture you no longer have to give the app
access to all the media on your device just the specific photos that you want
to share with it and instead of providing an app access to all of your
local storage there are now specific pop-ups for videos music photos and
audio however it's not a user side decision so the app developer still gets
to choose which permissions they ask for meaning you need to read those
notifications to ensure that you're aware of what you're sharing
Android 13 also fixes some of Android 12's location weirdness before if you
wanted to locate nearby devices via bluetooth or wi-fi you would have to
allow the app location access but now the search is handled by a separate
runtime keeping your location information safe and only in the hands
of uber google facebook and all the other apps who already know you were removed
and now google allows you to set language settings per app so you
polyglots can have your gmail and german and your web browser in english without
having to dig into your phone settings spatial audio a technology that frankly
still smells a little gimmicky to me is now available in the os so you don't
need specific applications to take advantage of it and uh let's see oh
right one forward-looking addition is bluetooth led audio support it's kind of
like bluetooth low energy so like lower energy but now with 100 more audio and
bluetooth sig is betting on it being the future of bluetooth see look at this
graph wow the traditional sbc codec is only
three or four but the new lc3 codec
featured in bluetooth le audio it's almost five the whole time
we don't have the time to dive into this graph or whatever the heck it is they're
trying to convey here but the gist is that bluetooth led audio will allow for
greater audio quality at lower bit rates
using less power and allowing you to connect to multiple devices at the same
time to clarify i know that it's already
possible to play back to two pairs of headphones at once if you and your so
want to watch a movie together on the plane but this new tech takes that a step
further it's called auracast and it has no practical limit to the number of
bluetooth devices that you can cast to so frepples rejoice
and why stop there you and your whole polycule could have your own silent
disco
now it's more likely that we'll see this concept deployed for advertising or so
that you can bring your own headphones for the museum audio tour but hey it's
fun to imagine cooler possibilities right google is also making their whole
ecosystem a bit more cohesive they've actually started supporting tablet
specific updates for big screen devices with Android 12l and with Android 13
they've added a chrome os like shelf that allows for quick and easy multitasking along with proper palm
rejection for styluses which i cannot believe that they didn't have
yet you can now stream messages from any
messaging app to chrome os allowing you to reply to anyone who calls from the
comfort of your chromebook that you definitely own and google says that
you'll be able to copy paste from your phone to your tablet in the future
hopefully that's it isn't it uh if it all seems a
little underwhelming that's fair google has clearly taken this year to sand
Android 12's rough edges down but hey making their excellent os even
excellenter is not necessarily a bad thing and honestly it's the kind of
thing that we often hound companies to do hey don't just keep adding more
features fix your darn bugs right so here it is currently Android 13 is
only available on pixel devices but it will be rolling out to other devices
later in the year will it roll out to your device unless it's a pixel who
knows um that's up to your device manufacturer and sometimes your carrier
sometimes blind luck yay
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