These allow users to tint Android Launcher app icons to inherit the colouring of the user’s chosen wallpaper and other themes.<\/p>\n
The GIF below illustrates what this feature looks like.<\/p>\n
A new Quick Settings API will also allow users to pin certain app features from within a particular app instead of adding them via the Quick Settings panel.<\/p>\n In terms of accessibility, Google is introducing per-app language preferences, which let users set different languages for each app.<\/p>\n In addition, there are several improvements to the operating system’s privacy protections.<\/p>\n The photo picker feature will let users choose the photos and videos in their gallery that they want an app to access, instead of allowing access to their entire collection.<\/p>\n Google is also rolling out new runtime permissions for apps that need to access nearby Wi-Fi connections.<\/p>\n That means unless an app requires a user’s physical location, these apps will no longer ask for location permission but will still be able to pick up nearby Wi-Fi networks.<\/p>\n Lastly, Google gives developers access to programmable RuntimeShader objects, with behaviour defined using the Android Graphics Shading Language (AGSL).<\/p>\n “AGSL shares much of its syntax with GLSL, but works within the Android rendering engine to customize painting within Android’s canvas as well as filtering of View content.”<\/p>\n Android internally used these shaders to implement ripple effects,\u00a0blur, and\u00a0stretch overscroll.<\/p>\n Now, third-party app developers will be able to create similar advanced effects for their apps.<\/p>\n For the few South Africans that might have a Pixel device on hand, Google provides instructions on downloading the Android 13 Developer Preview on this page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Google has rolled out the first developer preview of its next major smartphone software release \u2014 Android 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":433618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,76510,167,70113],"class_list":["post-433594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-android-13","tag-google","tag-smartphone-operating-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433594"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GIF.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAnimations galore<\/h3>\n
Now read: New Samsung smartphones will get four years of Android updates<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"