{"id":137765,"date":"2021-10-28T05:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T04:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=137765"},"modified":"2021-10-28T05:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T04:44:15","slug":"google-to-release-android-12l-adaptive-os-for-flexible-and-large-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/google-to-release-android-12l-adaptive-os-for-flexible-and-large-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to release Android 12L &#8211; adaptive OS for flexible and large displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google unexpectedly announced Android 12L for everyone.\u00a0It is an important offshoot of the operating system in the form of a special version of Android 12 that targets foldable devices with flexible displays and tablets.\u00a0The update is designed to solve the main problem, for which the platform has been actively criticized over the past few years &#8211; user interaction with the interface on a large screen or non-standard format.<\/p>\n<p>Android 12L provides convenient item scaling and improved multitasking.\u00a0For example, over a wide area, quick settings will be separated from notifications and will be shown as two independent panels to simultaneously display more useful and necessary information.\u00a0The lock screen, desktop, application menu, power menu and running applications menu will receive similar optimizations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/google-android-12l.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similar to Chrome OS, Google will also add an additional taskbar to Android 12L for large displays.\u00a0It will allow users to pin frequently used applications and effectively split the screen into two halves with one click and drag.\u00a0The adaptive operating system will automatically switch to dual-window mode when you hover your finger from the icon to the left or right, dividing the selected application from the open one.<\/p>\n<p>Developers wishing to test Android 12L can now install the preview version.\u00a0It is noted that Android 12L Developer Preview 1 is an early base build with few innovations and APIs.\u00a0A stable release is scheduled for the first half of 2022 to &#8220;coincide with the next wave of foldable devices and tablets.&#8221;\u00a0According to rumors, Google itself may contribute to it with the release of the foldable Pixel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/google-android-12l-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The Android 12L update schedule looks like this:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>October &#8211; Developer Preview 1.<\/li>\n<li>December &#8211; Beta 1.<\/li>\n<li>January &#8211; Beta 2 (final APIs).<\/li>\n<li>February &#8211; Beta 3.<\/li>\n<li>Q1 2022 &#8211; Final release to AOSP and ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pixel smartphone owners will be able to take part in beta testing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pixel 6 Pro;<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 6;<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 5a (5G);<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 5;<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 4a (5G);<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 4a;<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google unexpectedly announced Android 12L for everyone.\u00a0It is an important offshoot of the operating system in the form of a special version of Android 12 that targets foldable devices with flexible displays and tablets.\u00a0The update is designed to solve the main problem, for which the platform has been actively criticized over the past few years [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/google-to-release-android-12l-adaptive-os-for-flexible-and-large-displays\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-137765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}