I was on vacation for a few days, so I’m catching up on some of the more interesting news items from the past few days. This is one of them.
Following an inadvertent tease last week, Google today officially launched the Android 11 Developer Preview. This is the fifth consecutive year that the company is providing an early look at its next major operating system.
In more ways than one, this initial Android 11 preview is defined by an “earlier than ever” launch. The majority of past releases arrived in the second week of March, with Google this year wanting to give developers more time to provide feedback and prepare applications to new platform features.
Very much an early release, so there’s not a lot of exciting user-facing features right now.
Since updating to Android 10 my Pixel 2 has been very unstable. Mostly freezes but also some reboots. I hope 11 is better.
kwanbis,
Interesting, I see reports of lots of bugs with android 10 elsewhere as well after upgrading. It’s rather surprising to see users experiencing android problems on google devices, they don’t have the excuse of blaming other manufacturers.
https://bgr.com/2019/09/05/android-10-update-for-pixel-phones-sensors-bug-explained/
I wonder if these problems have anything to do with the reason lineageos hasn’t (yet) provided android 10 releases for pixel devices? Maybe if these issues are fixed in android 11 lineageos can just go from 9 to 11 for pixel.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/marlin
I’ve been frustrated with waiting for updates due to certain regressions in android 9 that are supposed to be fixed in 10.
I recently got Android 10 on my Nokia 7 Plus (Android One). Not much changed except:
1) Android Auto was added (quite nice but annoying that the voice assistent doesn’t understand Dutch and English mixed…yet?)
2) My car (bluetooth) was lost as a trusted device so I had to reconnect. No big issue and quickly fixed
3) I got a few “this app is using your location, would you like to allow Never/Once/Always” popups. This is quite welcome although I already paid attention to permissions
4) Biggest issue: 2 times so far my phone has losts its GPS location entirely and a reboot was needed
…Somehow all of these are “car related” 😉
On my pixel 2 xl, i have had no real issues with android 10, except for some issues with the new gesture controls, so i will be trying android 11 as soon as it is deemed relatively stable, and hoping it builds upon the good experience in android 10.