Google Completes Android 12

Google announced today that it has completed the development of Android 12, the next major release of the most popular personal computing platform on earth.

“Today we’re pushing the [Android 12] source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the latest version of Android,” Google vice president Dave Burke writes in the announcement post. “Keep an eye out for Android 12 coming to a device near you starting with Pixel in the next few weeks and Samsung Galaxy, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Tecno, Vivo, and Xiaomi devices later this year.”

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Mr. Burke notes that over 225,000 people tested Android 12 during its several-months-long development process and that these users reported nearly 50,000 issues during that time. This kind of feedback is what drives a successful release, a sobering reality for Microsoft fans, given that we just tested Windows 11 publicly for only three months with little or no feedback making its way into the initial release.

Android 12 has a lot of interesting new features, but the marquee feature, which I’ll be writing up soon, has to be the new Material You user interface with its wallpaper-based dynamic themes and a new generation of fun new home screen widgets. But Android 12 has other important additions, including a new notifications UI, double-digit performance improvements, and a new privacy dashboard. You can check out the original post to learn more.

Developers who are interested in targeting Android should also mark their calendars for October 27 to 28, when Google will host a virtual #AndroidDevSummit event.

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  • jaredthegeek

    Premium Member
    04 October, 2021 - 2:52 pm

    <p>Oh no! Someone likes something I don’t!</p>

  • michael_goff

    04 October, 2021 - 3:02 pm

    <p>I take it you haven’t looked into iOS 15 lately. </p>

    • blue77star

      04 October, 2021 - 3:10 pm

      <p>I ditched smart phone few year ago. I am back to old Nokia.</p>

  • igor engelen

    04 October, 2021 - 3:06 pm

    <p>well, it might be terrible but I’m very jealous iOS doesn’t have <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">wallpaper-based dynamic themes.</span></p>

    • jason_e

      04 October, 2021 - 3:47 pm

      <p>Really ? Its different but Android is childish looking to me. The whole OS is childish looking. Stupid weather frog and all.</p>

  • obarthelemy

    04 October, 2021 - 3:14 pm

    <p>I’m a bit afraid… my wallpaper has been 100% black since… my HTC HD2 (pictures as backgrounds are either pretentious, ugly, distracting, spoiled by icons… and mostly all of the above). Do I get to select the other color ?</p>

    • bbennett40

      05 October, 2021 - 1:35 pm

      <p>Cover your camera up so it gets no light. Take a photo of the blackness. Use that as your background. Done.</p>

  • Paul Thurrott

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    04 October, 2021 - 4:22 pm

    <p>I think it’s because it works so well, actually. </p>

  • timwakeling

    05 October, 2021 - 7:22 am

    <p>I’m afraid to say that the concurrent releasing of significant new versions of both Android and Windows, each with new looks and other features, is creating a rather dramatic contrast between Google’s approach to rolling out such a thing, and Microsoft’s.</p>

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