Here are some of the new features in Android Q's Beta 4

If you're part of the Android beta program and own a Google Pixel series phone, you can at present download the latest version of the operating system (Os).

Go into the Setting'south app on your phone then go into 'System.' After that, tap on 'Advanced' and and then finally 'Organisation update.'

Notably, Google is releasing the Android Q API, meaning developers are at present encouraged to brand apps for the OS that tin can accept advantage of the new features similar 'Night Theme,' 'Suggested Actions' and more than. This indicates that Google getting closer to the terminal build of Android Q.

The update is besides available for the Essential Phone, just you'll need to visit Essential'southward website to download the system files and flash it.

Organization navigation

The contextual rotation button has returned. That means when your phone is locked in portrait mode, and yous rotate information technology to landscape way to watch something or look at a picture Google volition nowadays you lot with a small rotate button in the lesser corner of the screen. The button should arrive easier to plough the brandish, without having to pull down the notification shade.

Google disabled this feature with the new gesture navigation in Android Q, just in Beta 4, information technology'due south back every bit a pocket-size floating push in the bottom left corner.

Another modest alter is a visual update to the dorsum arrows when yous pull in from the side of the screen. Now, the arrow changes between white and black depending on what'due south on the screen to provide more than contrast, co-ordinate to Droid Life.

Notifications

Google besides revamped the notifications controls in the new beta.

One of the showtime things nosotros noticed in the get-go Android Q beta is that you can only swipe your notifications away in one direction. Now you tin swipe in both directions once again.

In beta 3, swiping the opposite direction brought up a quick selection to either stop that blazon of notification, get in appear silently, or continue as a standard notification with audio and vibration. Now you lot need to tap and concur on the notification to make that menu appear.

Previously, the notification controls were labelled 'Interuptive' and 'Gentle.' But at present in beta four, they're named 'Prioritized' and 'Gentle.' Additionally, there are at present Prioritized and Gentle icons in the Notifications Settings to aid users know what exactly they're controlling.

There's also a new feature called 'Adaptive Notifications.' This feature automatically prioritizes notifications by setting lower priority notifications to Gentle.

Some other notification change hides notifications from apps gear up to the Gentle priority in the status bar.

Overall, this is a welcome modify that should help users take more than control over their notifications.

System themes

Google's added a bunch of new colours to the system's 'Emphasis colour' settings. Now users tin can cull from 'Cinnamon,' 'Black,' 'Green,' 'Ocean,' 'Space,' 'Orchid' and 'Purple.'

The previous beta only had Purple, Blackness and Green.

Beyond this, Google has subtly bolded the 'At A Glance' widget.

Android's new dark theme used a lot of deep blacks and dark greys in beta iii. Now information technology appears the company swapped out some of that blackness for lighter shades of greyness. Notably, when yous hold downwards the power button to plough the phone off, information technology's more than grey than black now. Alongside that, the quick menus that announced when yous tap and hold on an app like Google Keep is now a lighter greyness as well.

The Google search bar on the Pixel dwelling screen is now a nighttime greyness when the dark theme is enabled.

In the notification shade, the name and icon of the app that's providing the notification have changed from white to a colour that represents the app. For case, Keep's notifications now accept a yellow icon.

On the lock screen, Google moved the lock icon from the bottom of the screen to the top.

Source: Droid Life