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Google showed off the first of four planned public betas of Android 14 and these new features focused on system navigation, privacy, performance, and user personalization. According to a report by The Verge, an American technology news website, a back arrow with the Material You theme more prominently matching the theme or wallpaper of the device has been added to the gesture navigation system. The redesigned back arrow, which certainly looks better, is meant to help users understand Android 14's predictive backward gesture experience, which now shows a preview of the screen users access on screens. internal applications. ALSO READ: Google looks to the future of Android, with a wary look back
The page that opens when you tap to share content was updated in Android 14 to include a new system share sheet. At the top of the sharing menu, developers can now add unique, app-specific actions. This, according to Google, is a "better" sharing experience compared to Android's current share sheets, which always order share targets (the app you're sharing content with) alphabetically. While the exact nature of these signals is unclear, the new action sheet uses more data from the app to decide the ranking of the direct action targets displayed at the top of the page.
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This fixes some issues. Previously, app developers had to create their own share sheets, which lack visual consistency and prevent users from building muscle memory in apps, or add custom sharing targets if they wanted certain apps to appear higher up in the sharing menu. . Esper.io reports that Google discourages developers from using the feature because it limits the number of sharing targets that the device's system can recommend. Only two shared targets can be set to appear higher in the shared list.
System share sheets can now be customized, avoiding the issues that arise when developers create unique share menus.
New graphical features are also included in the first beta of Android 14, including morph effects and improved language settings that automatically configure apps to support each app's language preferences. improved. Google Play Protect will verify the validity of these claims. According to Google, the new privacy protections can be used to prevent the most vulnerable people from engaging in activities like unknowingly transferring money or paying for anything through an in-app purchase.
