Google Launches Android Q Beta 1 (venturebeat.com) 33
Google said today it is rolling out the first beta version of Android Q, the newest version of its mobile operating system. The company will roll out a stable version of Android Q later this year. From a report: The first beta includes a preview SDK for developers with system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, and the official Android Emulator. This is the fourth year running that Google has released the first developer preview of the next Android version in March -- Android N (later named Android Nougat), Android O (Android Oreo), and Android P (Android Pie). For the past two years, Google did not use the Android Beta Program, which lets you get early Android builds via over-their-air updates on select devices.
That changes with Android Q -- Google is making the first preview available as a beta, not just as a developer preview. That signals that it is ready for early adopters to try, in addition to developers. As before, this preview version will be referred to as Android Q until Google picks a name starting with that letter.
That changes with Android Q -- Google is making the first preview available as a beta, not just as a developer preview. That signals that it is ready for early adopters to try, in addition to developers. As before, this preview version will be referred to as Android Q until Google picks a name starting with that letter.
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Beats the alternative (Score:1)
Q-Anondroid has the unfocused rage-baiting I crave.
Still better than the lgbtQ-Droid, which blanks the screen whenever you look at the phone with the message "DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY UNLOCK STATUS??"
Did they fix wireless scanning? (Score:2)
Pie restricts scans to a very small number, which negatively affects network scanners. It was allegedly done to preserve battery life, but surely there is a better way.
Can Google add a better user environment? (Score:2)
I wish AOSP would have some boring, but needed stuff. A standardized busybox, access to the Linux firewall, root available, a way to backup/archive app data via ADB, so restoring a phone is easier, or you can just move your saved games off to save space and load them on later (or possibly to a different device.) As of now, data backups on Android are extremely hit or miss, it would be nice to have a standard of packing up an app's data and sending it off. Titanium Backup handles this admirably... but req
Re: Can Google add a better user environment? (Score:1)
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You can get that stuff on any rootable phone, so there are at least options. And there's Busybox Pro.
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If you have root, you can install a Unix userland and use Xrdp and an RDP client to get a full graphical login on your Androids. Or you can get the light version with Busybox Pro, which I've been using for years now. But you really do have to stick with hardware which is at least rootable, if not fully unlockable. The latter is preferable, because it lets you run LineageOS on many devices. That way, you can keep getting some kind of updates after your vendor abandons your device, at least for a while.
Did they turn off tracking? (Score:1)
If you opt out of location tracking on Android, Google still tracks you.
I expect at some point that if you turn off tracking on an Android device, it'll mean what it says: "Turn off."
For some reason Google is having trouble understanding that basic idea.
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Tell me I'm reading this wrong (Score:2)
From the article:
"Connectivity permissions, privacy, and security: For Bluetooth, cellular, and Wi-Fi, the FINE location permission will be required. Wi-Fi standard support, WP3 and OWE, will also be included to improve security for home and work networks as well as open/public networks."
So does that mean that if an app needs Wi-Fi, then I will now have to give it fine location permissions? So any app that requires Wi-Fi can now also access GPS?