Android 13 Release Date – Everything you Need to Know
The latest version of Google Android, version 13, has a lot of enhancements across the board. You should be aware of the numerous Android 13 features and even minor improvements. However, due to the wide range of factors and the variety of skins available depending on the brand of your smartphone, there may be some variations in many smartphones. But in this article, we’ll go over the new features and enhancements in Android 13 that you should be aware of.
Android 13
For developers to test their programs, Google has made numerous preview copies of Android 13 available. The early preview builds gave users an early look at Android 13, including many of the new features, API updates, user interface modifications, platform improvements, and behavioral changes.
The APIs and system actions visible to apps have been frozen since the release of Android 13 Beta 3 in June. Google refers to this as “Platform Stability,” letting developers know they can start updating their app without worrying about potentially harmful changes. Furthermore, developers have been able to release compatible versions of their apps ever since Android 13 Beta 4 was released in the middle of July.
Android 13 New Features – Changelogs
Accessibility
- description in audio for the blind
- An accessibility magnifier can now follow the text as you type.
- Quick Settings tiles for one-handed mode and color correction
Audio
- Support for Bluetooth LE Audio
- MIDI 2.0 support
- spatial audio that supports head tracking
Customization
- movie-related wall decor
- Dynamic color styles in material
Display
- Resolution alterations
- Enable the dark mode at night.
Docking
- Hub style
- redesigned screen saver
- Switch to admin user when docked
Enterprise
- Payment support for work profiles using NFC and NFC-F
- WiFi Trust on First Use
Gaming
Languages & input
- Per-app language preferences
Media
- Media Tap To Transfer
- System Photo Picker
Multiuser
- It’s easier to install apps to guest profiles
Navigation & multitasking
- App drawer in the taskbar
- Clipboard editor overlay
- Disable the long-press home button action
- Drag to launch multiple instances of an app in split-screen
- Launch an app in split screen from its notification
- Predictive back gesture navigation
- Taskbar adds app predictions row and search bar
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Networking
Privacy
- 7-day view in privacy dashboard
- Clipboard auto clear
- Control smart home devices without unlocking the device
Security
- QR code scanner shortcut
- Unified Security & Privacy settings
Sound & vibration
- Toggle to show the vibrate icon in the status bar
- Vibration sliders for alarm and media vibrations
Display
- Consolidated font and display settings
- Low light clock when docked
Launcher
- the launcher’s app drawer’s bottom search bar
- PC interfaces that are unique
- The navigation bar’s kids mode
- For the home screen and app drawer, a single search bar
Lock screen
- On devices with large screens, lock screen rotation is enabled.
Media
- Media output picker UI has been updated.
- new media player user interface
- The progress bar is wavy.
Multiuser
- User profile switcher in fullscreen
- new user interface for adding a user
- User profile switcher in the status bar
- The keyguard’s user switcher
Notifications & status bar
- Rearranging the buttons in the notification shade
Noise and vibration
- Priority mode might replace Do Not Disturb as its name.
- Activating silent mode turned off all haptics
Media
- PlaybackState is now the source of media controls.
Power management
- Control whether an app can activate the screen.
- Delay background-restricted app broadcasts after boot completion
- Long-running foreground service notifications and the foreground service manager
- Decoupling high-priority FCM quota from app standby buckets
- prioritized jobs
- warnings about excessive background battery use
- jobs that prefetch data just before an app launches
- The Resource Economy of Android
- Rules for placing apps in the restricted App Standby Bucket have been updated.
Privacy
- Hardware toggle support for the camera and microphone
Security
- Blocking of non-matching intentions
- access to device logs only once
- Subdirectories under “Android” are no longer accessible via SAF.
- Access to the Notification Listener and Accessibility APIs may be restricted for sideloaded apps.
Text rendering
- Faster hyphenation
- Improved Japanese text wrapping
- Improved line heights for non-Latin scripts
Platform Changes
- Audio
- Audio HAL 7.1 with Ultrasound & latency mode
- Virtual Audio Device
- Camera
- HDR video support in Camera2 API
- Stream use cases
- Performance
- ART update brings lower memory use and faster runtime performance
- Multi-generational LRU support
- Project Mainline
- Android’s Bluetooth stack is now a Mainline module
- Android’s ultra-wideband stack becomes a Mainline module
- Java. home environment variable now points to the ART module
- Tweaks to updatable NNAPI drivers
- Project Treble
- Improvements to Dynamic System Updates
- Quick Access Wallet
- Custom component for the Quick Access Wallet activity
- Networking
- Basic support for WiFi 7
- DNS over HTTP/3 support
- Fast Pair coming to AOSP
- Multiple Enabled Profiles on a single eSIM
- Security
- APK Signature Scheme v3.1 support
- Better error reporting for Keystore and KeyMint
- Binary transparency manager
- Full-disk encryption support was removed from the Android
- Hardware support for Android’s Identity Credential API
- Legacy fs-verity support dropped
- Linux kernel version requirement update
- Memory Tagging Extension for Armv8.5+ devices
- Privacy Sandbox
- Remote Key Provisioning
- Shared UID migration
- Virtualization support for isolated compilation
- Sensors
- Head tracking sensor support
- Heading sensor support
- Storage
- EROFS support
- exFAT support
- Smart idle maintenance
- USB
- USB HAL 2.0 with support for limiting power transfer and audio docks
- API Updates
- Camera
- Camera2 improvements: Preview stabilization, jitter reduction, 60fps streams
- LED flash brightness control
- Enterprise
- Block users from adding new WiFi networks
- WiFi SSID policy
- Fonts & text
- Color vector fonts
- Stylus handwriting
- Text conversion APIs
- Gaming
- Framerate interventions
- Loading time improvements via GameState hints
- Graphics
- Jobs
- Schedule exact alarms without user prompts
- Media
- Anticipatory audio routing
- More granular media file permissions
- Performance Class 13
- Newly restricted non-SDK interfaces
- Programming language features
- Quick Settings
- Quick Settings Placement API
- Roles
- Computer and App Streaming device profiles
- Security
- Background access of body sensors requires new permission
- Developer downgrade permissions
- Disable the screenshot shown in the recent overview
- Nearby device permission for Wi-Fi
- Non-dangerous permission to read the phone state
- Runtime permission for notifications
- Safer exporting of context-registered receivers
- Sensors
- Telephony
- Theming
- Splash screen style
- Themed Icons API
- Camera
- Android Automotive
- Android TV
- Expanded picture-in-picture mode
- HDMI state changes are surfaced to the MediaSession lifecycle
- Keep clear APIs
- Keyboard layouts API
- Low-power standby mode
- Picture-in-picture mode support comes to Google TV
- Security patches
Release Date for Android 13
On August 15, 2022, Google released Android 13. Now that the source code is available on AOSP, system engineers can start producing their own builds based on the most recent Android release. Additionally, the brand will determine the release date for non-Pixel devices as it might take some time to create a stable custom skin over stock Android right away.
