Google has launched the fourth beta of its planned Android 12 operating system, which includes Game Mode, AppSearch, a new notification style for phone calls, and other consumer-focused features for developers to work on.
- Optimized: The Game Mode allows developers to optimize gameplay by prioritizing characteristics, such as performance or battery life based on users’ settings or game-specific configurations. Android 12 introduces AppSearch, a high-performance on-device search engine, as a system service.
- High performance: Android 12 introduces AppSearch, a high-performance on-device search engine, as a system service.” AppSearch allows applications to index structured data and search over it with built-in full-text search capabilities,” according to a Google update.
- New launch: “Android 12 introduces a new app launch animation for all apps that includes an into-app motion from the point of launch, a splash screen showing the app icon, and a transition to the app itself,” Google said.
- Revamping: Android 12 revamps the existing Widgets API to improve the user and developer experience in the platform and launchers. “In Android 12, you can now enrich your app’s notification experience by providing animated images in notifications. Also, your app can now enable users to send image messages when they reply to messages from the notification shade,” said Google.
- Supported on: The new Android 12 beta 4 release is available on supported Pixel devices, and devices from select partners including ASUS, OnePlus, OPPO and realme. Android 12 apps can generate haptic feedback derived from an audio session using the phone’s vibrator.
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