Android 11: the first Developer Preview

Android has driven the route towards the eventual fate of portable, with new advancements like 5G to foldable showcases to AI incorporated with the center. A sign of our methodology is a solid designer network that gives early and mindful criticism, helping us convey a hearty stage for applications and games that amuse billions of clients around the globe. So today, we’re discharging the main Developer Preview of Android 11, and expanding on a solid criticism cycle a year ago, we’re making the current year’s see accessible to you sooner than at any other time. 

With Android 11 we’re maintaining our attention on helping clients exploit the most recent developments, while proceeding to keep protection and security a top need. We’ve added various new highlights to assist clients with overseeing access to delicate information and records, and we’ve solidified basic zones of the stage to keep the OS flexible and make sure about. For engineers, Android 11 has a huge amount of new abilities for your applications, similar to improvements for foldables and 5G, call-screening APIs, new media and camera capacities, AI, and the sky’s the limit from there. 

This is only a first look; like earlier years, we’ll keep on sharing new highlights and updates over the coming months and into Google I/O as we work through your criticism. The most significant thing for you to do right now is this: visit the Android 11 designer website, download a framework picture for your Pixel 2, 3, 3a, or 4 gadget, and let us comprehend what you think! 

The present discharge is an early pattern work for engineers just and not proposed for day by day or buyer use, so we’re making it accessible by manual download and blaze as it were. Keep in mind, getting early contribution from you is critical in helping us develop the stage to address your issues. Peruse on for a sample of what’s going on in Android 11, and visit the engineer site for subtleties on course of events, how to test, and how to give criticism.

New Support for 5G

5G is extremely popular in tech land, and as the transcendent purveyor of web content on the planet, just as of gadgets and programs that get to the web, Google is all in with regards to 5G. In spite of the fact that its most recent Pixel telephones don’t yet bolster 5G, you can wager that will change. 

Meanwhile, Android 11 (up until now) includes two 5G APIs designers will have the option to use in their applications: Dynamic meteredness API and Bandwidth estimator API. The first empowers applications to offer, for instance, more excellent video to unmetered 5G-associated gadgets. The second lets the framework decide the association data transfer capacity, sparing the application from playing out its own association speed tests.

Neural Networks

In the event that anything approaches the buzz worthiness of 5G, it’s AI and machine learning, and Android 11’s help for neural systems lines up with that. Most AI machine learning happens on amazing servers, however the versatile OS will let applications utilize portable equipment to run these computationally concentrated tasks. 

Three new abilities assist designers with pulling this off: Quality of Service APIs, Memory Domain APIs, and Expanded quantization support. The main offers the required assets for the tasks, the second upgrades memory activities for continuous executions, and the third empowers littler, quicker figuring models.

Privacy and Security

Another security decision for applications is the “Main This Time” alternative when you’re permitting an application access to your area, receiver, or camera. The other huge protection advance includes stockpiling consents. Applications will have the option to request cluster authorization to a lot of media records, and new prerequisites for getting to establish registries in both interior and outer stockpiling. 

Security choices have been expanded with new help for biometric confirmation utilizing BiometricPrompt APIs, stage solidifying with new “sanitizers,” and new secure stockpiling highlights, including support for IDs, for example, versatile driving licenses.

New Screen Types

Android 11 includes support for two newish screen types: pinhole and cascade. The new APIs fundamentally permit designers to advise their applications to work with that camera pinhole on certain telephones and the edge shows on cascade type screens.

Notification Bubbles

Facebook’s Android application has since a long time ago offered determined visit heads; Android 10 presented them for work in applications like Phone and Messaging, and now some other application designers will have the option to include comparable usefulness utilizing another API. In case you’re one of those individuals who can’t stand bubbles, the API requires applications to cause them to pick in, letting clients choose whether they need the air pockets or not the first occasion when one shows up. Informing applications will likewise get another warning shade area committed to continuous discussions. Warning inline answers will bolster embeddings pictures in answers, as well.

Camera and Photo Updates

With its Pixel cell phones continually competing with Apple iPhones for the differentiation of best camera alternatives, it’s nothing unexpected that Google is including more camera and photograph support in Android 11. New highlights incorporate a bokeh, decoders, HEIF enlivened drawables, local picture decoders, quieting during catch, and HEIF drawables. That last one is an increasingly proficient swap for energized GIF usefulness.

Low Latency Options

In support of its online gaming platform, as well as video-streaming apps, Android 11 adds low latency support in new MediaCodec APIs. There’s also new support for low latency mode over HDMI, which is useful for use on external displays and televisions.

Those are some of the high points of Android 11 based on the first developer preview. There are a few more new tools and conveniences for developers, and we’ll certainly see more features for them and end users as the OS makes its way to full release later this year.