Another of the big stars of the Google I / O 2022 conference was android 13, a future version of the well – known operating system, the second beta of which has recently appeared. The company has shown some interesting features at the level, except that development versions and leaks usually offer a lot of useful information.

The first thing that will stand out from Android 13, or at least will be in the face of end users (who may not understand what parts it consists of internally or how they work), will be that customizable schemas Material You will be available as preset themes and are expanding to cover media players and third-party applications, a path the company apparently began planning earlier this year.

Thanks to Material You, the system will be able to match the color combination with the image or element used as wallpaper on the device. Media controls get similar treatment and their color will depend on extracting colors from the currently playing album art.

Continuing with aesthetic motifs, those who don’t care or don’t want the colors to match the motif used on the phone will have a choice of preset color schemes. Opening Material You to third-party application icons should gradually improve the consistency of the interface, and it’s out of the question that Google will force this in the future.

Privacy RCS News from Google News (Google Messages) will be improved in Android 13 by end-to-end encryption in group conversations, a function that will be introduced later and is already present in the dialogs (one-on-one conversations). RCS is a standard that aims to replace veteran SMS and MMS, and according to Google, it already has 500 million users through its messaging service alone.

Demo of Material You on Android.

Another aspect that will be improved in Android 13 is the security of the operating system itself. The Company imposes additional restrictions on the personal information and features to which applications have access. See you soon applications also request permission to send notifications and a new selection of photos, which allows you to restrict the images and videos that the applications have access towhich will replace the one-time granting of permission for the entire library. Granting access to files will distinguish between pictures (photos, pictures, and videos) and sound (music and sound) instead of doing so without distinction.

In future development versions, a new page in security and privacy settings will be added, which will gather all the important information about privacy in one place. The Company intends to encourage users to address any security issues that may arise.

In terms of pairing and connectivity, the intention is to drop support for Android 13 this year pairing via smart home Matter standard, through which the system should be able to easily and quickly add smart (or rather smart) devices to the household. Bluetooth LE Audio (Low Energy Audio) support is another feature on the go.

Setting the language for the Android application 13.

Another thing that is expected to be added is system language settings for each applicationsomething that people who have recently moved to another country and work in the language of the place where they are, but use the language of their place of origin when contacting friends and family, will certainly appreciate it.

The new version of Google Wallet for Android will standardize the way in which resources such as car keys and vaccination records are stored and made available in addition to credit cards, event tickets, transportation tickets, boarding passes, and other resources. student ID cards.

Android 13 aims to be primarily an evolution in terms of interface consistency, security and privacy. The former remains somewhat subjective, but the latter and the third will largely depend on what device manufacturers offer through the excessive freedoms Google has given them. Unfortunately, fragmentation is still very pronounced, and in the end, custom ROMs offer better support than smartphone manufacturers themselves.