Google Launches Android Q Beta 4 With Final APIs and Official SDK (venturebeat.com) 13
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched the fourth Android Q beta with final Android Q APIs and the official SDK. If you're a developer, this is your fourth Android Q preview, and you can start testing your apps against this release by downloading it from developer.android.com/preview. The preview includes system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, and the official Android Emulator. If you're already enrolled in the beta program, you'll automatically get the update to Beta 4. Like Beta 3, Google is also bringing Android Q Beta 4 to third-party phones "over the coming weeks." The Beta 4 doesn't bring many new features -- it's more about finalizing what was already added, such as the additional privacy and security features, multitasking bubbles, and system-wide dark mode.
Google is however "opening publishing on Google Play to apps that are compiled against, or optionally targeting, API 29," the report adds. "You can thus now push updates to users through Google Play to test your app's compatibility, including on devices running Android Q Beta 4."
Google is however "opening publishing on Google Play to apps that are compiled against, or optionally targeting, API 29," the report adds. "You can thus now push updates to users through Google Play to test your app's compatibility, including on devices running Android Q Beta 4."
Looking forward to buying new phone to get it (Score:2)
I cant wait to get this when I buy a new phone that comes with it...
Re: (Score:2)
My phone came with Oreo, is now running Pie, and is supposed to have a guaranteed updated to Q. Next time get a Pixel or Android One phone.
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Oh? Which feature are you so looking forward to? The cute bubbles? A colour change? Man you must be a marketing manager's wet dream.
Put Essential on that list too.. (Score:2)
My Essential phone is already updated to Q Beta 4.
microG (Score:2)
Or when "location" is exclusively local and not automatically shared with Google.
You might be interested in this opensource re-implementation of the same API as Google's Play Services, called MicroG [microg.org].
Among other uses an infrastructure of location plugins (called UnifiedNLP) allowing to either send your location to other different cloud services (e.g.: Mozilla, Apple), or process it only locally (using downloadable databases of towers, or just a history of the latest seen ones), or only exclusively rely on GPS signal with no processing.
Well, of course this would requries a phone with an u