Navigation Android 10 introduces a revamped full-screen gesture navigation system and new app open and close animations, with gestures such as swiping from either side edge of the display to go back, swiping up to go to the home screen, swiping up and holding to access Overview, swiping diagonally from a bottom corner of the […]
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User experience Android 11 introduces “conversations” notifications; they are designed for chat and messaging, and can be presented in pop-up overlays known as “bubbles” when supported by apps. Conversations can also be marked as “priority” to give them greater prominence (pushing them to the top of notifications, and allowing them to bypass do not disturb
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User interface Android 12 introduces a major refresh to the operating system’s Material Design language branded as “Material You“, which features larger buttons, increased use of animation, and a new style for home screen widgets. A feature, internally codenamed “monet”, allows the operating system to automatically generate a wallpaper color theme (basic color theme for Android 12.1/12L) for system
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User interface Android 12 introduces a major refresh to the operating system’s Material Design language branded as “Material You“, which features larger buttons, increased use of animation, and a new style for home screen widgets. A feature, internally codenamed “monet”, allows the operating system to automatically generate a wallpaper color theme (basic color theme for Android 12.1/12L) for system
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Privacy Android 13 includes several new features intended to enhance user privacy, both user-facing and developer-facing. A new media picker is added, which improves privacy by allowing users to choose which photos and videos apps have access to. Most apps have not implemented this picker yet. In addition, Android 13 does not allow app access to
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User experience Building on the new option added in Android 13 to set languages individually for apps, this feature has been expanded and is easier to implement for developers. Furthermore, a new “Grammatical Inflection API” has been added to gender users according to their preferred grammatical gender. Android 14 provides the ability to increase the font size
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The official DP1 release notes state that the following features will be introduced in Android 15: However, enthusiasts have discovered the existence of other under development features that may be released in later developer preview versions, such as the reintroduction of lock screen widgets, which were introduced in Android 4.2 but later removed in Android 5.0. Other such features
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User interface Android 16 introduces an overhaul to the operating system’s Material Design language branded as “Material 3 Expressive” which features increased use of animation, colors, and blur. Material 3 Expressive will not be included in the initial release of Android 16 and is scheduled for release later in 2025. Linux terminal In Android 16,
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