Day by day Authority: 📱 Android 14’s first preview has landed

☕ Good morning! One in all my favourite issues to do as of late is to play fowl movies for my cat by way of the laptop computer. She will’t grasp that they aren’t actual and winds up on the lookout for the critters behind the display. Anyway, we’ve bought fairly a number of tales to cowl immediately, so let’s get on with it.

Google flicked the swap yesterday and launched the primary Android 14 developer preview. That is simply the primary stage within the eventual secure launch later this yr, however there’s a lot to glean from this preview already.

New options and tweaks

• Google confirmed a number of Android 14 options and enhancements yesterday. However issues are somewhat barebones proper now.
• Maybe essentially the most polarizing change is the shortcoming to put in apps primarily based on Android Lollipop’s APIs and earlier.
• Google reasoned that these older apps have been susceptible to malware as they don’t make the most of trendy protections (e.g. permissions).
• That’s a really comprehensible stance, nevertheless it does imply that some area of interest apps and deserted video games are on the chopping block.
• At the very least you should use some ADB instructions to sidestep this restriction.
• Different notable additions are greater font sizes (from 130% in Android 13 to 200%), a brand new alarm permission, and a slew of under-the-hood battery tweaks.
• Veteran code sleuth Mishaal Rahman has additionally uncovered upcoming options like clone/twin apps performance and a bloatware finder device.

Wish to set up it in your cellphone?

• The excellent news is that Android 14 DP1 is now out there to obtain in your handset. 
• The dangerous information is that it’s just for Pixels proper now (Pixel 5 or newer, Pixel 4a 5G or newer).
• Nonetheless, you may certainly view our Android 14 set up information if you happen to’re eager to hop aboard.
• Do be warned that that is nonetheless a really early model of Android 14, so count on loads of bugs.
• You due to this fact most likely shouldn’t set up this preview in case your Pixel is your main cellphone. I do know I’m skipping it on my private Pixel 7 Professional.

When’s the secure Android 14 launch, although?

• That’s the important thing query, isn’t it?
• Seeking to the previous, secure Android 13 launched in August 2022, Android 12 launched in October 2021, and Android 11 launched in September 2020.
• Google additionally claimed Android 14 will attain characteristic stability in June and that builders will due to this fact have “a number of weeks” to conduct last testing.
• So a Q3 launch could possibly be on the playing cards, however historical past reveals that an early This fall launch is feasible too. 
• Google additionally affords a beta launch round its I/O convention in Could every year, so we’d count on the identical in 2023. 
• The beta launch usually consists of the participation of different smartphone manufacturers, so these with out Pixels might want to wait till then.
• In any occasion, our Android 14 replace tracker is stay now, so you may verify again there for updates out of your favourite model.

Palindromes are enjoyable, being phrases that learn the identical forwards and backwards (assume “nun” or “madam”). However palindromic names are enjoyable too, and Namerology (h/t: Neatorama) has charted their reputation within the US from 1922 to 2021.

It seems that Ava, Hannah, and Anna have been the most well-liked palindromic names within the US in 2021. Different in style names embody Ada, Ana, Otto, and Elle.

Apparently, the web site notes that the most well-liked palindromic identify of all time, Bob, didn’t make the checklist in 2021. After all, Bob is brief for Bobert Robert, however even the total identify has seen a serious decline in reputation.

Have an awesome day!
Hadlee Simons, Editor