Android 13 has been announced? Top 5 Features of Android 13.

Android 13 has been announced recently. What are its top 5 features?

  The latest version of Android OS, dubbed Android 13, was unveiled at Google I/O 2019 conference. This new version brings several exciting features such as picture-in-picture mode, improved battery life, and much more.

  This article highlights some of the top features of Android 13 and explains why they matter to businesses.

ANDROID 13 initial releasing Date is  August 15, 2022

Starting OFF!

#5 Clipboard

So I'm gonna start at number five, which is the clipboard There are a bunch of really solid improvements to the clipboard for copying and pasting within Android.  So, first thing you're gonna notice when you go to copy something the new box pops up in the lower left corner, 

whether it's text or an address or URL or whatever you copy. When you copy text, the phone will now give you a preview with the option to tap on that box and then edit the text in the clipboard. So whatever you modify in here will be saved in your clipboard so that you can paste it later.

And then if you copy an image, it'll automatically take you straight into Markup so you can write on it or crop it or save it,

 whatever you wanna do. And then your phone will recognize sensitive information if it's stored in your clipboard and automatically clear it after some time. I believe it's one hour. So for example, my package tracking app, every time I open it, right away it just looks and sees what's on my clipboard, in case I just copied a tracking number from another app, and it asks me if I wanna paste it. But if I had just copied a social security number

#4 Security in General 

Lots of nice security and privacy improvements. I think my favorite is that when you give photo access to apps now,

 You can just choose a few photos to give it access to instead of your entire library. So that catches up to what iOS has been doing for a little bit. And also now, notifications are all opt-in. So apps have to ask you for permission to send notifications instead of any being allowed by default.

 There's also now an active app indicator at the bottom of the notification slider. Maybe that's a less security and just more of being able to see what's running and closing out anything that you might not realize is killing your battery. But, yeah, it's also just convenient.

#3 Audio Enchantment Stuff

So then, number three is some nice audio enhancement stuff. So Android 13 will now natively support spatial audio and Bluetooth LE for higher quality, low energy, and lower latency audio.

All good stuff. Side note, I am testing the Pixel Buds Pro right now. As of today, when I'm using them, they do not support spatial audio. But there also is a blog post that says

 that they're going to be adding it later this year. So maybe a firmware update will eventually give me that. But so far, they are pretty impressive. Stay tuned for that review, 'cause that's coming up soon.

#2 App-Specific Language Support 

 Apparently, it was one of the most requested features in Android for the last little bit, and now they're adding it, which is app-specific language support. So if you're bilingual, you speak more than one language, but maybe you only use that second language in a certain app. Maybe you have a family group chat in WhatsApp, or you have a very specific use case where you just use one app in a different language. Now Android will natively support that exact switch without you having to work around it.

 So you go to settings, system, languages & input, and then app languages. 

App developers will have to opt-in to do this, so not every app shows up here right off the bat. But I believe this should be a pretty quick checkbox that they flip, and then they'll be supported in multiple languages. The whole system UI changes to be the new language just for that one app. That's sweet. I'm not even someone who will actually use that feature but I can understand how that would be very useful. So that's pretty cool.

#1 Aesthetics  

That was the big visual change that they'd made. So now they're down to tweaking a lot of the things that they'd initially changed for Android 12. And I think a lot of these changes are good. 

So in the customization section, the theme picker for your wallpapers is much more precise. 

There's 16 different multicolor options and 16 different single-color options now, instead of the four of each we had before. And there's a lot more granularity between them.

 Then there's the media player. This one's nice. The notification is bigger and it changes color based on the media that you're listening to. So if it's music or a podcast, it's got the album art going. 

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             And then it also has a squiggly line when there's actually something playing.

 I'm not gonna say what that looks like. But yeah, if you tap the playback location, there's a bigger volume slider and you can quickly switch to, or add more sources like headphones or speakers or your car or whatever. But that new media player is sweet.

 The shortcut to get to settings has moved from the middle to the bottom of quick settings to be much more reachable. Actually like it here. And the gesture bar at the bottom is now slightly larger and thicker. See? Told you it was minor. 

There's a lot of little stuff, but again, it adds up to quality of life improvements. There's also a ton of bug fixes and performance improvements and Android runtime improvements. Hopefully, things are generally less buggy and more smooth. There's a whole page of just dozens and dozens of bug fixes that they've added. I'll link it below if you wanna read through those. But ideally, I mean, so far, should be running better on phones like the Pixel 6 than Android 12 was. I do also wanna mention though, I think there's one thing that got worse. I think they low-key made some of the haptic patterns worse. I hope they think a little bit about those. But generally, that's pretty much it.

That's Android 13 for you. Let me know if you're hoping to get that update on whatever phone you're using. And let me know what your favorite feature is in the comment section below.