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Android 14 DP1 now has better keyboard support.Īndroid 14 is preparing to add support for changing the behavior of modifier keys.

Google has been trying to make Android work better on large-screen devices, and thanks to these efforts, we now have things like the taskbar, activity embedding, more optimized apps, improved letterboxing, and better split-screen support, most of which arrived in Android 12L.

Android 14 may bring better support for keyboards with touchpad gestures and modifier key remapping This feature is now available in Android 14 Developer Preview 2. With Android 14 Developer Preview 2, though, you can make it so that the camera flash goes off when a notification is received or make the screen flash. If you're hard of hearing as well, then neither of those options may help, which is why a visual cue may be the most useful way to be able to tell if your phone is receiving notifications. Sometimes it can be easy to miss a notification, especially if your phone's volume is quiet, or it's only set to vibrate. Android 14 could bring visual notifications via screen and flash cues System apps that hold the SET_WALLPAPER_COMPONENT permission, such as Android’s Live Wallpaper Picker app, can use this method to “set the live wallpaper for the given screen(s),” such as the home screen, lock screen, or both screens. One code change adds a new method to Android’s WallpaperManager class called setWallpaperComponentWithFlags(). While digging through the source code for Android 13 QPR2, we spotted several code changes that prepared for enabling an “independent lock screen live wallpaper” feature. Google is no longer keeping Android 14's a secret since it was found in one of the AOSP Gerrit commits back in July last year.įor those of you who are curious, these have been the dessert names (internal or public) of all the Android versions so far:

Similarly, Android 13 is called Tiramisu. Android 11, for instance, was called Red Velvet, while Android 12 is known as Snow Cone.

The use of dessert names, however, has continued for the company's internal development teams. Google ditched its dessert naming scheme for Android two years ago with Android 10's brand redesign.