{"id":84,"date":"2022-04-17T14:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=84"},"modified":"2022-04-17T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T14:53:59","slug":"android-13-beta-hands-on-just-small-tweaks-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Android 13 beta hands-on: Just small tweaks for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>iThis content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.<\/p>\n<p>The supposed to bring finer privacy controls and more themed app icons. Though, there\u2019s probably stuff in the works that the company has yet to share \u2013 don\u2019t forget no longer work. If you\u2019re very certain you want to give this beta a shot and are fully aware of what you\u2019re getting into, you can enroll a supported Pixel phone on Google\u2019s website, and a notification will appear on the device. I signed up with a Pixel 4a and downloaded the 1.79GB update with no trouble.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things I noticed after installing the beta was the refreshed media playback box. It\u2019s taller in Android 13, compared to the one on my Pixel 6 Pro (running Android 12), and uses album art as the background. Instead of just showing pause, previous and next buttons in addition to the song title and artist, the new panel shows an animated progress bar that squiggles as the music goes on. On the card for Spotify, at least, I also got options for shuffling and liking the track.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption>Screenshots<\/figure>\n<p>This box\u2019s new layout is great. Not only does it show more information and in a more attractive way, it also lets you drag the slider to fast forward through parts of podcast episodes without having to unlock your phone or launch an app. That said, I do miss the bigger buttons for skipping a track. Plus, it\u2019s slightly buggy and said my music was playing on the Pixel 4a instead of my Nest Audio speakers where it actually was streaming.<\/p>\n<p>new Material You themes and improvements to <em>Android Police<\/em> reports that the lock screen shortcut to access Android\u2019s page of smart home device controls can now be accessed without unlocking your device, this wasn\u2019t true for me. I was still asked to enter my pin when I tried to turn on my living room lights from my Pixel 4a. But this could be a bug and it might be working for other beta users.<\/p>\n<p>All told, there were surprisingly more user-facing changes in Android 13 beta 1 than I had expected, and I\u2019ll need some time to dig around for things we may have missed. But I still wouldn\u2019t recommend anyone other than the most eager early adopter to install it \u2014 unless you scan dozens of QR codes a day. For now, it\u2019s still too early to tell what Android 13 will look like, but it\u2019s nice to see Google is working on some thoughtful new features at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iThis content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. The supposed to bring finer privacy controls and more themed app icons. Though, there\u2019s probably stuff in the works that the company has yet to share \u2013 don\u2019t forget no longer work. If you\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,122,65,105,67,80,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}