Android 12L has announce by Google. Android 12L built for large screens. The new UI is more refine and brings tweaks across elements such as notifications, quick settings, lock screen, overview, home screen, and many more.
On display screen sizes above 600dp, the notification shade, lock screen, and other system surfaces use a new two-column layout to take advantage of the screen’s extra real estate.
These two column layouts show more information and are easy to use.
System apps are also optimise for Android tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices.
In a new blog post , Google announce the launch of Android 12L for large screen devices on 27th October 2021.
Android 12L will be release early next year, and Google is working with OEM partners to bring the new update.
Google confirms that the Android 12L developer preview will first arrive on Lenovo Tab P12 Pro.
As Google currently focusses on tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices but later plans to open up Android Beta enrolments for Pixel devices as well.
The new Android 12L will take advantage of the extra space to offer new UI experiences when compare to regular smartphones.
Android 12L also brings a new taskbar that lets users instantly switch to favourite apps.
This taskbar also makes split-screen mode more discoverable.
With Android 12L, you can just drag-and-drop from the taskbar to run an app in split-screen mode.
Google Said :
“To make split-screen mode a better experience in Android 12 and later, we’re helping users by automatically enabling all apps to enter split screen mode, regardless whether the apps are resizable.”
Android 12L for tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices also improves upon compatibility mode to offer a better letterboxing experience for users and help apps look better by default.
Android 12L offers customisable letterboxing to enable options for letterbox colours or treatments, adjust the position of the inset window, apply custom rounded corners, and many more.
The Android 12L is said to also include a handful of new APIs for developers with a new API level.
Google Said :
“We’ve been careful not to introduce any breaking changes for your apps, so we won’t require apps to target 12L to meet Google Play requirements.”
Google is asking developers to build apps of the future keeping multiple screen sizes in mind.
A new API also makes apps fold and hinge-aware.
Google says that it will warn users about apps in Google Play store that aren’t optimise for large screens.
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