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Android 14: The Exciting Features You Need to Know

Parth Thakkar Parth Thakkar
18/10/2023
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Android 14: The Exciting Features You Need to Know

Android discharges are one of the numerous ways your Android telephone gets better over the long haul. Last year we presented Android 13, bringing you includes like Spatial Sound, informing application streaming, cross-gadget duplicate/glue, another media player, and considerably more.

We likewise accomplished something surprising for us: We presented a few enormous screens, including initially made arrangements for Android 14, and the update has been released to Android 13 users. Those updates incorporated improved performance of various tasks, a refined Taskbar, and worked on foldable help with far superior applications.

Furthermore, beginning today, Android 14 is here, and it’s loaded with refreshes that assist you with redoing your gadget experience, give you more command over your well-being and security, and further develop openness. We should investigate what’s going on. Here we’re going to talk about what Android 14 has brought for Android developers in terms of updates and features. Let’s get started with it without any further delay.

On October 4, 2023, Google delivered the steady variant of Android 14. The Google Pixel mobiles will be receiving the update before everyone else, trailed by qualified smartphones from other Android OEMs. Pixel users can install the new update on their handsets currently utilizing our Android 14 guide. Those with smartphones from different brands should hang tight for OEM-explicit Android 14 deliveries.

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Google Pixel Devices that will be Supporting Android 14

Android 14 is going to be launched on all recently launched Android gadgets; however, it might require an investment to carry out to all smartphones and tablets out there. If you have not yet updated your Android version, a software update might be forthcoming at present. The accompanying Google Pixel gadgets are upheld on Android 14, in sequential request of launch:

  • Google Pixel 8 & 8 Pro
  • Pixel Fold
  • Pixel Tablet
  • Pixel 7a
  • Pixel 7 & 7 Pro
  • Pixel 6a
  • Pixel 6 & 6 Pro
  • Pixel 5a 5G
  • Pixel 5
  • Pixel 4a 5G

Exciting Features of Android 14

  • Spacey Easter Egg in Every Android 14

Each Android rendition has a little Easter egg concealed in framework settings, and this is likewise valid for Android 14. Consistent with the Apollo 14-enlivened logo for this delivery, the Hidden Little Goody has you send off a rocket, flying through the immense vacancy of room with the choice to investigate stars and planets, and that’s just the beginning. It is a pleasant, minimal little game that you ought to give a shot when you can get your hands on Android 14.

  • iOS Type Drag and Drop Support

It is well-known to you how to relocate records and text between applications on iOS. That may at last be possible, beginning with Android 14. While you could do it between applications that were in parted screen mode, you were unable to do it in a regular application and another standard application.

Beforehand, motions were disregarded by the framework while clutching a document, and this restriction stretched out even to clients utilizing the three-button route. Thus, the intuitive usefulness was restricted to the split-screen mode.
Presently, clients can drag content from their number one note-taking application to another, easily swipe between open applications, helpfully swipe up to get to the home screen, and afterward play out a back motion by swiping from the edge of the showcase.

  • Helpful for Low-vision Client

Android Low Vision Accessibility Tools & Features

Source: blog.google

Android 14 accompanies numerous vision and hearing-comprehensive elements. For low-vision clients, the better magnifier on Android 14 is more natural, with the capacity to squeeze to zoom in and out from 100 percent. You can likewise change the magnifier size in another Magnifier Settings board or tweak the amount of the screen you’d like amplified.

Likewise, you can further develop clarity and immediately change the text dimension on your gadget with Android 14’s text dimension Speedy Settings tile and appreciate better meaningfulness with nonlinear textual style scaling, which grows bigger text dimension at a slower rate than more modest text dimension.

  • Android 14 Allows Better Multitasking

There have been cases where you have performed multiple tasks on your Android smartphone and may presumably utilize a particular set of applications together — like a banking application and a mini-computer or a note-taking application and an eLearning application.

Whatever you may pair the applications with, Android 14 could make this considerably more straightforward to do by permitting you to save and send off an Application Pair. Mishaal Rahman spotted the new component, and it shows up in the new things outline menu.

It tends to be seen by getting to the setting menu, which right now houses the split-screen menu choice. It’s not practical yet, but it appears it might come to the last Android 14 delivery.

Also Read : How Much Does it Cost to Hire an Android App Developer?

  • Better Control over Health, Security and Data

Android 14 Data Security Features

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Applications assist people to track their wellness, well-being, and health levels. In any case, the information that is gathered is much of the time disconnected inside every specific application, restricting your ability to perceive and command your information.

Health Connect is presently incorporated into your Android 14 settings as a focal method for putting the information in one spot and remaining in charge of your security. What’s more, your information is safely stored on your smartphone, which guarantees Google or any other person can’t see or involve it for some other reason.

With new information-sharing updates on Android 14, when you are approaching to concede application consent to data like your area, you will be advised when an application is imparting area information to outsiders and can pursue a more educated choice on the decision about whether to make access.

  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Features

Home Screen and Lock Screen Features

Source: blog.google

Android smartphones have upheld live backdrops since Android 2.0 Eclair, and they have just been better after some time. There are heaps of various choices accessible on the Google Play Store, and most OEMs bundle a few live backdrops with their gadgets, as well.

In any case, while you get to set a different static backdrop on Android on both the home and the lock screen, it is basically impossible to set separate live backdrops. But that will not be happening anymore with Android 14 in smartphones. When we were going through the source code for Android 13 QPR2, we recognized a few code changes that were arranged for empowering a “free lock screen live backdrop.

  • Google Tinkers, Along with Android’s Inner Working

First off, Google is tweaking two Android APIs (job scheduler and foreground services) with the end goal of further developing proficiency for undertakings like foundation exercises and downloading huge documents.

“The client-started information move occupation will make overseeing client-started downloads and transfers more straightforward, especially when they require imperatives, for example, downloading on Wi-Fi just,” Google says of its changes connected with document downloads/transfers. The battery duration center does not end here, as Android 14 likewise further develops the stage’s inner transmission framework for improved productivity.

Final Words

Android 14 will be a huge change in the world of technology. Although it has just been released on the Google smartphones till now, it will be a very good competition against the iOS 16. With the new features discussed and many more features to be revealed, we can surely say that Android 14 is going to bring a bang in the smartphone software industry.

FAQ on Android 14 Updates

Android 14 stands out for its:

  • Enhanced Privacy Controls
  • Improved Multitasking
  • Redesigned User Interface
  • AI-Powered Features
  • Battery Optimization
  • Accessibility Improvements
  • Security Updates
  • Compatibility with Google Pixel Devices

Android 14 was officially released on October 4, 2023, starting with Google Pixel devices. It will be gradually rolled out to other eligible Android smartphones in the coming months.

Several Google Pixel devices support Android 14, including Pixel 8 & 8 Pro, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7a, Pixel 7 & 7 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 6 & 6 Pro, Pixel 5a 5G, Pixel 5, and Pixel 4a 5G.

Parth Thakkar

Written by Parth Thakkar

Parth Thakkar is Chief Information Officer at MultiQoS, boasting a rich background in successfully executing intricate projects and fostering collaboration across diverse teams within Agile and Waterfall project frameworks. Renowned for his adeptness in navigating complex and dynamic settings, he is deeply committed to leveraging technology to address business hurdles and drive innovation.

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