Android 12L, the big-screen updated version of Android 12, is now rolling out after months of testing, landing as part of today’s Feature Drop update for Pixels and coming soon to other tablets and foldables from companies like Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft.
If you haven’t followed along with our Android 12L feature coverage, the very short version is that most of the changes were meant to address issues larger devices face when running Android. That includes UI tweaks covering a range from the notification shade to launcher grid sizing, plus some tweaks to multitasking, as well as a new taskbar that behaves a little more like Chrome OS — Google’s unifying its interfaces across compatible screen sizes.
Most of the changes are, as said, for devices with larger screens, so most likely there isn’t much in here for people with regular phones.
… also Chromebooks.
https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/android-12l-could-vastly-improve-mobile-apps-on-chromebooks-will-it/
With Chrome Apps being discontinued, this will probably become even more important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_App (still I am not sure a perfectly good API is shut down, anyway…).
Though, I don’t know many people writing “tablet mode” apps it at the moment. (Phone layout really looks strange on a 4K desktop display).
“Though, I don’t know many people writing “tablet mode” apps it at the moment.”
This is just pure developmental laziness, though. and worse, some apps that should work just fine with the same layout as on a phone are being blocked from use on tablets. WHY???
Yes, I don’t understand it either.
The app developer might be slow moving and does not have other device support enabled.
But the Android UI could easily say: This app is not compatible with your display. Do you really want to try it?
Instead it just blocks apps.
(And this includes the Android TV, which could make use of more apps — a Chrome browser?)
“devices with larger screens, so most likely there isn’t much in here for people with regular phones” – How large is a larger screen? “reguler phone”s’ screens are already humongous, are there even tablet-sized phones nowadays?
Latest mobile tech is in general a big meh anyway. Nothing innovating and exciting about it for a while now. And i doubt this is going to change anytime soon.
This update includes the fix for the broken lock screen clock. There is now a toggle setting to remove the double-line clock.