{"id":315893,"date":"2019-08-08T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=315893"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T06:30:58","slug":"google-launches-final-beta-version-of-android-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/315893-google-launches-final-beta-version-of-android-q.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches final beta version of Android Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android Q&#8217;s sixth and final beta is <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2019\/08\/final-beta-update-official-android-q.html?linkId=71691139&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rolling out<\/strong><\/a> to Pixel phones, as well as other <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/308977-all-the-smartphones-that-can-get-android-q-now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>participating devices<\/strong><\/a> such as the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and the Nokia 8.1, in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beta 6 includes all of the features, system behaviours, and developer APIs that you\u2019ll find in the final platform, so it gives you everything you need to get your apps ready,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>Users will also get access to a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2019\/08\/final-beta-update-official-android-q.html?linkId=71691139&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>new fixes and optimisations<\/strong><\/a> ahead of the mobile operating system&#8217;s official launch.<\/p>\n<p>These include refinements to Gesture Navigation, such as a sensitivity preference setting for the back gesture.<\/p>\n<p>The official Google schedule for Android Q&#8217;s release claims that the operating system will be launched in Q3 2019, and Google said that more information about the release will be coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its recent issues with the US and uncertainty regarding its future use of Android, <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/310889-the-huawei-p30-and-p30-pro-will-get-android-q.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Huawei has said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it is confident that its P30 and P30 Pro will get Android Q.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/315867-samsung-unveils-galaxy-book-s-laptop.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung unveils Galaxy Book S laptop<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android Q&#8217;s sixth and final beta is rolling out to Pixel phones, as well as other participating devices, in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":305458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56742,58022,167],"class_list":["post-315893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android-q","tag-android-q-beta","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}