Here's everything I found in Android 13 Developer Preview 2 (thread)
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The settings and power menu buttons have been moved to the bottom of the notifications shade.
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There's a new foreground service manager that shows apps running in the foreground. Whenever there's a foreground app, you'll see text at the bottom of the notification shade that shows the # of active apps. Tap that and a dialog appears, showing which apps.
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If you previously granted an app Android 13's new runtime permission for notifications, then Android may ask if you want to let an app continue sending you notifications.
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DP2 includes the first hint of the major screen saver revamp that I previously talked about. The screen saver page now shows previews.
blog.esper.io/android-13-dee
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There's a new Quick Setting tile to launch Privacy Controls, where you can toggle camera, mic, and location availability. It also includes a shortcut to launch security settings. The UI seems rather unfinished, though.
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"Show touches on screen" is there in SystemUI's screen recorder in Android 13. It was removed in Android 12L due to an issue with how the cursor is drawn.
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The new media player and media output picker UI I first revealed are now enabled by default in Android 13 DP2!
The redesigned output picker also added a "pair new device" button that wasn't there in DP1.
blog.esper.io/android-13-dee
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Screwed up the thread (I blame Twitter's UI), so here's an embed of tweets you may have missed:
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Android 13 prepares to add a "kids mode" nav bar that hides the recents and changes the icons for back and home.
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The new Material You dynamic color styles work in DP2! Here's TONAL_SPOT, VIBRANT, EXPRESSIVE, and SPRITZ in order. I'll share how to enable them soon :)
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And another:
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Android 13 includes a hidden developer option for toggling Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a new feature of Arm v9 CPUs!
(More info on this soon!)
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Taking a short break to update my Android 13 deep dive article with all these findings.
Go here for the more in-depth explanation on everything that I tweeted about:
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Ugh, Twitter threads. Sorry for screwing it up again, here's a tweet you may have missed:
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Recorded this video to show off the new Accessibility magnifier feature that follows the text as you type.
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Granular vibration sliders have been added to control alarm and media vibrations.
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"Font size" and "display size" settings have been consolidated into "display size and text", where you can see a preview of how your font/display size affects text/icon sizes.
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Legit think Twitter is messing up somehow. I keep going back to "Add another Tweet" in the thread, but it sometimes adds it as a reply to another tweet.
Anyway, ICYM this:
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Per-app language settings are now available in DP2. This used to be hidden behind a feature flag in DP1.
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Neat tidbit about the new media player UI: the color scheme of the media output switcher button is extracted from the album art.
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The QR code scanner should now work for most users. It defaults to launching the com.google.android.gms/.mlkit.barcode.ui.PlatformBarcodeScanningActivityProxy component provided by Play Services.
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Aww, the split screen button in PiP windows is now disabled by default in DP2. It was also disabled by default in Android 12L with Beta 3.
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In Android 13 DP2, you can now long press a notification and drag it to enter split-screen mode.
This was actually added to Android 12L and was hidden behind a feature flag: blog.esper.io/android-12l-de
It's still pretty buggy, though.
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Interestingly, the "Device Controls" QS tile gets renamed to "Home" if you set Google Home as the default/active provider of Controls.
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Android 13 is testing a new way to schedule when dark mode turns on: at bedtime. Your bedtime schedule is set by an external app, typically Digital Wellbeing.
Details and screenshots here: blog.esper.io/android-13-dee
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Google is experimenting (yet again) with the search bar in the launcher. This time, there's a flag that moves the search bar in the app drawer to the bottom.
Screenshots here: blog.esper.io/android-13-dee
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Did a bit of digging and discovered some examples of complications that are being prepped for Android 13's big screen saver revamp. Complications will overlay on top of screen savers to display useful info like the air quality and casting info.
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