{"id":452574,"date":"2022-07-14T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=452574"},"modified":"2022-07-14T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:32:10","slug":"google-releases-final-android-13-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/452574-google-releases-final-android-13-beta.html","title":{"rendered":"Google releases final Android 13 beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has started rolling out the fourth and final beta for its soon-to-be-released Android 13 operating system (OS), providing developers with an early look at the changes.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2022\/07\/Final-Android-13-Beta-update-official-release-is-next.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/strong> the official release of Android 13 is &#8220;just a few weeks away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Google hasn&#8217;t changed much with the new beta, having already reached platform stability with its previous version. However, it specified that the fourth beta is a release candidate build for final compatibility testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the official Android 13 release just ahead, we&#8217;re asking all app and game developers to complete your final compatibility testing and publish your compatibility updates ahead of the final release,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For SDK, library, tools, and game engine developers, it&#8217;s important to release your compatible updates as soon as possible \u2014 your downstream app and game developers may be blocked until they receive your updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To test your app for compatibility, just install it on a device running Android 13 Beta 4 and work through the app flows, looking for any functional or UI issues,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it also addressed the following issues in the Android 13 Beta 4:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bluetooth issue where devices rapidly connect and disconnect from the Android 13 device.<\/li>\n<li>Google Camera app crashing on the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue where Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices got stuck on &#8220;Downloading song database&#8221; on the Now Playing page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Android 13 boasts several new features, such as its new notification permissions, photo picker, productivity changes, themed app icons, and per-app language support.<\/p>\n<p>Google <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/13\/features\/photopicker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/strong> the photo picker feature provides a means for users to select media files without needing to grant apps access to their entire media library.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/452392-whatsapp-getting-new-voice-and-message-reaction-features.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp getting new voice and message reaction features<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said the Android 13&#8217;s official launch is a few weeks away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":442018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[32030,76510,167],"class_list":["post-452574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-alphabet","tag-android-13","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452574"}],"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=452574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452628,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452574\/revisions\/452628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}