Android 13 will ask your permission to ship notifications

Google is releasing the second Android 13 developer preview on Thursday, and it features a main new characteristic: apps must ask your permission to put up notifications. iOS has had the same characteristic for years, and it’s a really helpful approach to ensure solely sure apps ship you notifications. I’m glad to see that Google plans to carry one thing prefer it to Android.

Based on Google’s weblog put up, it appears asking for permission will likely be a requirement for Android 13 apps. “Apps targeting Android 13 will now need to request the notification permission from the user before posting notifications,” Dave Burke, a VP of engineering for Android, says within the put up.

Another large characteristic on this second preview is Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio assist. Bluetooth LE Audio is a new standard that makes use of an audio codec known as the Low Complexity Communications Codec (LC3), which may transmit at decrease bitrates in larger high quality. That ought to lead to much less vitality consumption, main to raised battery life. You can get an thought of how the brand new codec would possibly sound in follow with an embed we included on this put up.

The second Android 13 preview contains another enhancements as nicely, together with assist for the brand new MIDI 2.0 customary that provides two-way communication, extra exact timing, and better decision with 32-bit messages that ought to present a extra analog-like really feel.

Android 13’s first preview launched in February, displaying off a brand new theming choice and a system-wide picture picker. But we don’t advocate you put in these previews simply but — provided that Android 13 probably gained’t launch publicly till someday after July, there are in all probability many bugs nonetheless to be labored out. Google expects to launch Android 13 betas round April, which may be a greater time to leap in if you happen to’re — and it appears a secure wager there will likely be some large Android 13 information out of the just-announced Google I/O present in May that might be price ready for, too.