These include updates to its Material Design guidance for large-screen devices, but also updates to Jetpack Compose to make it easier to build for these machines and to ensure that apps can more easily adapt to various screen orientations and sizes. In addition to Android 12L, Google also today announced new features in OS and Play for developers to better support these devices. Google plans to release 12L early next year, "in time for the next wave of Android 12 tablets and foldable." We should probably expect to hear a lot about Android tablets and foldable at MWC then. By default, Android 12L should also make apps look better on these devices, too. Instead, it's an update for large-screen devices that introduces additional multitasking tools and an optimized user interface. Since Google calls it a "feature drop" and "feature update" in its announcement today, we're not looking at a full fork of Android for these devices the way Apple split up iOS and iPadOS.
Since you won't really see most of the new features there, though, the focus right now is on other devices, with beta enrollments for Pixel devices launching later in the preview. The developer preview of Android 12L is now available for developers who want to give it a try, as well as a new Android 12L emulator and support for it in Android Studio.īut 12L is also for phones, Google says, confusing no one. The idea here is to provide users on tablets, foldables and Chrome OS laptops - anything with a screen above 600 dp - with an improved user interface. Google today announced a preview of Android 12L, which may sound like a new version of Android, but Google calls it " a special feature drop that makes Android 12 even better on large screens."
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