The first Developer Preview of Android 13 has been available for just over a month. A taste that Google has been giving for years to developers and curious about what the next major release of the robot will be, on the one hand, to allow the first to familiarize themselves with the new system in order to adapt the apps and, perhaps, get some new ideas, on the other hand, to allow the seconds to discover step by step the news that Google introduces with each Developer Preview.
News that you never stop writing down. In recent days we have offered you a rich overview of those that had escaped the preliminary analyzes, now the attentive Mishaal Rahman intervenes on Twitter to bring to light another one. He is about screen savers that can be set while the smartphone is idle on a dock or charging. Google would have in mind to introduce on Android 13 the possibility of enriching the screen savers with complications.
The conditional is due to at least two considerations: what is introduced in the Developer Preview, which in fact represent alpha releases, is not necessarily confirmed in the following ones until it reaches the final release of the operating system, and secondly, Rahman himself had some difficulty testing the complications but promised to work on them to show us in action.
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In short, based on what we know for the moment there is the option to activate them – see the screenshot above – but there are no complications, which in fact should be similar to those of Wear OS or Apple’s watchOS, thus constituting additional information. that the user can decide to superimpose on a quadrant (in this case a screen saver). Those foreseen, at least at present, for Android 13 would concern :
- Air quality
- Cast information (Chromecast reference?)
- Forecast
- Date and time
That’s all we know at the moment, waiting for evolutions to arrive in the next few days that will allow us to better understand what Google has in mind.