On 8th February 2023, Google announced its Android 14 first Developer Preview for Pixel devices. Which will let users experience, what the upcoming operating system is all about. On the other side, the QPR2 beta is also live and running on Pixel devices.
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With the Android 14 Developer Preview, Google provides an early look at the direction. The preview is getting underway in February to give developers more time to offer feedback and update apps. Also, this is going totally the same as the company did last year with Android 13.
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Android 14 Developer Preview mainly works on five aspects including –
Working across devices and form factors – Android 14 builds on the work done in Android 12L and 13 to support tablets and foldable form factors. As the recent work on layouts and large screen guidelines, with the goal of making it easier to optimize apps for various form factors with every Android release.
Customization – With Android 14, Google will resolve the issues where the text gets too large, because, the non-linear font scaling curve is automatically applied, which ensures that, if the text is already large enough doesn’t increase at the same rate as smaller text.
Privacy and Security – Android 14 will prevent apps with a targetSdkVersion lower than 23 from being installed. This specific version was chosen because some malware apps use a targetSdkVersion of 22 to avoid being subjected to the runtime permission model. Whereas, the older installed apps on devices upgrading to Android 14 will not be impacted.
Streamlining background work – Android 14, newly installed apps targeting Android 13+ (SDK 33+) that are no clocks or calendars must request the user to grant them the SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM special permission before setting exact alarms. It will also bring changes to existing Android APIs including adding new functionality for user-initiated data transfers, along with an updated requirement to declare foreground service types and more.
App compatibility – there’s OpenJDK 17 support (300 classes) and work to “fully enable Java 17 language features in upcoming developer previews.” Platform Stability will come in June.
However, the Android 14 Developer Preview system images are available for the Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, and Pixel 7 Pro, as well as the Android Emulator. Users can download it manually and flashing/sideloading.
- Pixel 7 Pro: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 7: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 6a: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 6 Pro: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 6: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 5a: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 5: Factory Image — OTA
- Pixel 4a (5G): Factory Image — OTA
