Google’s Android is undoubtedly the world’s most popular mobile operating system. It substantially brings a bunch of new features with its upcoming upgrade, Android 14. This time, Google is improvising its user experience for larger screens such as tablets and foldable smartphones.
Here, in this article, we going to highlight the most anticipated improvement and features of the upcoming Android 14 so far. But, things become more clear in its final release, since it is presently available in developer preview.
Larger Fonts and Smarter Scaling
Android 14 enables you to scale up the font size to the whooping limit of 200 percent. In order to prevent stable layouts, the system utilizes nonlinear scaling. It means any words that are already scaled up won’t grow larger further. It makes the text more readable for users having vision impairment.
Notification Flashes
The latest Android 14 upgrade allows you to turn on camera flashes as well as screen flashes for incoming notifications. Although, this has been available on other Android smartphones including Samsung and iPhone phones for a long time. Whereas, it hasn’t been built into the operating system itself. Hence now, with new upgradation, you can turn on one or the other, or both, and choose the color your display will flash.
Better Support for Large Screens
The first and foremost thing that Google revealed in the initial developer preview was to support developers. This is intended to make them build apps that adapt effortlessly to different screen sizes. Therefore, with the availability of more tools and design support available for developers. We can now expect apps that work well across smartphones, folding phones, and tablets.
Restricting Photo and Video Access
With the commencement of Android 14, you won’t worry to give permission to all-or-nothing nature. Since it adds an option to select the specific photos and videos it is allowed to access.
Enhanced Security
It won’t let you install older apps from Android 5.1 and earlier versions. While there are a few other behind-the-scenes alterations. This is certainly to improve security. While the most notable feasible change is improved support for authentication with passkeys enabling biometric login.
Regional Preferences
It comprises your preferences with respect to temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit, Monday or Sunday as the start of your week, or specific calendars or numerals. Here you can set these systemwide settings in Android 14, there’s also enhanced support for gendered preferences as well.
Satellite Connectivity
There have been few disclosures in regard to Satellite connectivity for phones for a while now. Especially since by the time Apple debuted Emergency SOS via Satellite with the iPhone 14 the previous year. Noticeably, the Support for such connectivity in Android 14 was confirmed by the tweet from Google’s senior vice president for Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer.
Predictive Back Gestures
However Google has not officially announced this, but as depicted by the latest developer preview includes predictive back gestures.
App Cloning
This feature is mainly for folks with two accounts in the same app. Since it enables to use of two accounts simultaneously. Some smartphone makers offer ways to do this with limited apps. Whereas, an official Android option in the settings menu will likely work better. On the other hand, this is something Google is testing presently, probably not making its way to the final release.
Health Connect
You probably have the choice to use one app for your smart scales, another for running, and still another to track your sleep. Google’s Health Connect app brings a way to centralize your health and fitness data. Also, enable us to share it across various apps and services. Although it is still in beta, but speculation is that the app may come preinstalled on all Android 14 devices.
Improved Share Options
Android 14 doesn’t guarantee an improvement in share options. But, parallelly, there’s a probability that Google may standardize and improvise on the current mix of share sheets.
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