Google has issued the primary Android 14 developer preview, providing preliminary hints of what’s to come back from this yr’s main working system replace.
The preview, which isn’t supposed for customers and is launched so builders can start with the method of upgrading their apps, suggests there’ll be a number of overarching priorities with Android 14. They’re: higher assist for bigger display screen sizes, and improved battery optimisation, accessibility, and consumer safety.
In a submit on the Android Builders Weblog, Google says Android 14 will proceed the work of Android 12L and 13 by enhancing assist for the foldables and tablets. This preview consists of extra instruments to assist builders construct apps that seamlessly adapt to completely different display screen sizes.
“With each launch, our aim is to make it simpler so that you can optimize your app throughout all Android surfaces,” Android engineering chief Dave Burke says.
Google can be specializing in improved customisation with an accessibility function the place customers will be capable to scale their textual content as much as 200% (up from 130%), which shall be helpful for visually impaired individuals.
Android 14 may even try and streamline background work of apps, which customers ought to see the advantage of in relation to battery life. For instance, developer might make sure the background work occurs when customers are on Wi-Fi
The corporate can be engaged on a brand new Grammatical Inflection API, which is able to allow app builders so as to add assist for languages the place the sentence adjustments primarily based on grammatical gender. For instance, the interpretation of the phrase: “You might be subscribed to…” In French.
To offer an identical phrase in French, there are just a few choices:
Masculine-inflected type: “Vous êtes abonné à…” (English: “You might be subscribed to…”)
Female-inflected type: “Vous êtes abonnée à…” (English: “You might be subscribed to…”)
Impartial phrasing that avoids inflection: “Abonnement à…activé” (English: “Subscription to … enabled”)
“In the present day we’re releasing the primary Developer Preview of Android 14, and your suggestions in these previews is a essential a part of making Android higher for everybody,” Burke says. “Android 14 continues our work to enhance your productiveness as builders, together with enhancements to efficiency, privateness, safety, and consumer customisation. This preview is just the start, and we’ll have tons extra to share as we transfer by the discharge cycle.”
After all, that is just the start for Android 14. We’ll begin seeing some user-facing stuff in future releases and definitely when the general public previews start to come back obtainable within the spring.
