The arrival of Android 12 will involve an important upheaval for the entire graphic interface of Android, even for proprietary and third-party applications that over time will embrace the guidelines of the Material You.
After the arrival of the new graphics system on many system apps and on those of third parties, today we discover that the beta 68.0.388241074 of Google Phone begins to show a small novelty for users in possession of a smartphone equipped with Android 12 beta 3.1. When you bring the Google Phone application to the background during a call, a new pill notification appears on the status bar showing the time spent on the call.
In addition to changing the color in relation to the wallpaper settings for the home screen, as the guidelines of the Material You want, a simple tap is enough to show some shortcut actions to change the microphone, activate the speakerphone, or end the phone call. Compared to the classic bubble so familiar to many users with Android 11, the new Android 12 system makes it much easier to interact with the rest of the UI of your device if the Google Phone app was in the background during a phone call.
Not all users with the latest beta of the Google app and Android 12 have the pill notification.
