{"id":413728,"date":"2021-09-13T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=413728"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:26:29","slug":"android-12-possible-launch-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/413728-android-12-possible-launch-date-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 12 possible launch date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google could release Android 12 for Pixel users on 4 October, according to an XDA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/android-12-stable-release-date-rumor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mishaal Rahman, XDA editor-in-chief, posted an internal Google document showing when the company will stop approving software builds based on Android 10 and 11.<\/p>\n<p>The document also indicated the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) publication date for Android 12 \u2014 4 October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the history of prior releases, it will &#8220;very likely coincide with the release of the Android 12 stable update for Pixel phones,&#8221; XDA said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Android 12 stable update may be released on October 4, as that&#8217;s when Google plans to release to AOSP. This tentative release date was also mentioned by a 3PL. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PMN802gQj0\">pic.twitter.com\/PMN802gQj0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MishaalRahman\/status\/1437085889885310976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Android released the final beta for their new software <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/413186-new-android-12-beta-colour-codes-apps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>last week<\/strong><\/a>, previewing several Material You features to be included in the final version of Android 12.<\/p>\n<p>This latest version of Material Design focuses on making the most of available display real estate and reintroduces colour that was previously missing from Android software.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth beta of Android 12 introduced new versions of Google Clock and Calculator, which both feature colourful accents based on the theme installed.<\/p>\n<p>The release of Android&#8217;s new software is happening later than in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>With no clear reason for the slower release, XDA suggests this is because Android 12 is a &#8220;more substantive release&#8221; than prior OS versions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/413532-windows-11-is-much-faster-than-windows-10-this-is-what-microsoft-did.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows 11 is much faster than Windows 10 \u2014 this is what Microsoft did<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal Google document reveals the possible release date of its Android OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":413742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[69411,39160,37565,72126],"class_list":["post-413728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-android-12","tag-google-pixel","tag-material-design","tag-material-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413728"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}