Android 12, which debuted on the Pixel 6 series, is one of Google's most significant efforts in recent years, with a slew of new capabilities and a major design overhaul. If you have a compatible phone, you should be able to install the update. You shouldn't have any big bugs or issues because it's a full release.
In addition to the official release, Google ran one of the largest beta programs in its history, with a dozen OEMs pitching in. You can download and install the update using this technique or by checking for updates in the phone's settings now that it's a stable release.
At separate periods, each OEM will release their own versions of Android 12 with their own skins. Visit our updated tracker for additional information on when your phone will be updated.
We'll go over all of the new features in Android 12 in the sections below.
Features of Android 12 include:
- Material You, as well as the other new design components
- New features
- Under-the-hood changes have been made.
- Improvements in security and privacy
Material You, as well as the other new design components
The big news is Android 12's enormous overhaul. Material You, the new design, combines many aspects into a single, cohesive design language that operates across the OS. Let's take a look at each element separately.
Extraction of color
The new redesign's foundation coat of paint is color extraction. In essence, the OS pulls the colors from your wallpaper and uses them to theme your operating system. In the screenshot above, you can see how it appears. In a nutshell, you set a wallpaper, Android 12 extracts the colors, and your operating system then gets color cues from it.
The color changes occur throughout the OS, including in the Settings, Quick Settings tiles, and any app that supports Material You. The dialer, contacts app, and calculator are all instances on Pixel devices. As shown in the video at the top of the article, it also works with widgets. As developers continue to add support, we'll see more.
Users can overrule the system.
If desired, users can override the color extraction and choose their own color. Even though the OS favors mild, pastel colors over bright colors, it looks rather lovely. To accommodate all of these new features, the Styles & Wallpapers app on Pixel smartphones was redesigned.
Emphasis on the widget
In comparison to earlier Android versions, Android 12 places a greater emphasis on widgets. The widget selector has been totally redesigned to make scrolling and viewing easier. Widgets also feature a few new APIs to increase efficiency, interact with Material You theming, and even come with new widgets in Android 12.
The new APIs assist developers in improving the appearance and functionality of widgets. Hopefully, it will motivate developers to update their widgets, as many of them still look the same as they did years ago. Plus, with Material You theming, personalizing widgets and making them blend in with your home screen will be a breeze. Since the introduction of resizable widgets in Android Honeycomb, Google has placed a greater emphasis on widgets.
Tiles for Android's 12 Quick Settings
The Quick Settings were also given a major makeover. Larger, rounded rectangle buttons have replaced the smaller toggles. These new tiles function similarly to earlier toggles, allowing you to turn them on and off by tapping them. There are also new tiles for accessing the camera and microphone (more on that later), Google Pay, alarms, and smart home functionality.
A handful of the tiles have diverse functions. For example, the Internet tile now always displays a prompt and stores both mobile and Wi-Fi data. In most cases, it's merely a cosmetic adjustment. The larger tiles, on the other hand, are simpler to read and hold more information. That, of course, comes at a cost in terms of space. Users who often utilize toggles will almost certainly require many pages.
Settings
The Settings menu received a makeover as well as a few small tweaks. The revamp is heavily influenced by Samsung's One UI, with huge headers that take up a lot of real estates. On taller phones, it makes the top settings on any given page simpler to grasp. In early developer previews, the new design, dubbed Silky Home, required ADB access, but it now comes standard with Android 12.
The addition of Safety & Emergency to the main Settings page is the only other notable update. It allows you to define things like an emergency contact and other details without having to dig deeper into the settings.
Changes in notifications and other areas
Several minor modifications have been made in Android 12. Animations to smooth things out, a new always-on display that changes depending on whether or not you get alerts, slightly modified notifications, and other minor tweaks to make the OS feel more fluid, alive, and responsive are all on the list. These modifications can be found throughout the OS in a variety of ways. When you plug in your phone, there is also a new charging animation that looks rather great.
This year, Google paid attention to notifications. They received a slight design update to match Android 12's aesthetics, as well as under-the-hood adjustments to help apps launch faster when opened via a notification, as well as other tweaks to make them appear and feel better.
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