{"id":487589,"date":"2023-04-13T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=487589"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:38:28","slug":"android-14-public-beta-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/487589-android-14-public-beta-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 14 public beta launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has rolled out the first of four planned public betas of its upcoming mobile operating system (OS) \u2014 Android 14.<\/p>\n<p>The release of <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2023\/04\/android-14-beta-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Android 14 Beta 1<\/strong><\/a> comes after it launched two developer previews of the OS.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the beta was\u00a0built around the core themes of privacy, security, performance, developer productivity, and user customisation.<\/p>\n<p>It only offers a handful of new features for end-users.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of UI tweaks, users will now see a more prominent back arrow when using gesture-based navigation to navigate to a previous section of an app.<\/p>\n<p>The new arrow will complement the user&#8217;s chosen wallpaper or theme.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, enhanced per-app language preferences let users change their preferred language for individual apps.<\/p>\n<p>The other changes are to the benefit of app developers.<\/p>\n<p>These include more in-app graphics features and the ability to add custom actions to system sharesheets invoked within their apps.<\/p>\n<p>The sharesheets have also been improved to better rank the most likely sharing targets.<\/p>\n<p>To enrol in the Android beta, you need to have a supported Google Pixel device, which includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pixel 4a (5G)<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 5<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 5a<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 6<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 6 Pro<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 6a<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 7<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 7 Pro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/486851-google-wants-android-app-developers-to-let-you-delete-your-account.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google wants Android app developers to let you delete your account<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company said the beta was\u00a0built around the core themes of privacy, security, performance, developer productivity, and user customisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":487597,"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":[17934],"tags":[397,83875,167,39160],"class_list":["post-487589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-android-14","tag-google","tag-google-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487589"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487603,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487589\/revisions\/487603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}