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Android 14 features and changes list | Android Developers (developer.android.com)

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Whilst Google announced a ton of AI powered features for Android 14 at Google I/O, it seems like most of them will be Pixel exclusive...

Hoping Samsung does more with OneUI 6 since Google's really pushing for Pixel exclusivity on Android now 🙄

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[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I hope one UI gets a face lift. It's so Samsung lol

[–] AlmostDachshund@rammy.site 3 points 1 year ago

Android 14 is the most underwhelming updated yet. Google didn't even promote it well on I/O. About OneUI 6, I just wish Samsung updates the control center. It's too outdated. I know it's simple and working well, but I would love some visual tweaks.

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess part of the problem is Google has this practice of AI models running in their server, which is costly so they want to make them a more exclusive thing.

But historically things that started with the Pixel got expanded, didn’t they?

[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

having only just moved to android 13, it seems a bit weird

but as someone without google apps... Android updates don't seem to change a lot anymore

[–] haxasaur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/behavior-changes-all#kill-own-background-processes

No more apps to kill all the background processes and free up memory.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a bad thing, honestly. Free RAM is wasted RAM.

[–] TrippySquidsman@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. The way Android manages RAM is not the same as Windows, ie. full memory utilisation ≠ out-of-memory scenario.

[–] haxasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Depends how much free RAM we talking but yeah.

[–] Devgard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

this I'm excited for! Also a more useful share sheet!

[–] vividspecter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping for opus Bluetooth support in AOSP and not just for Pixel. Better yet if it was the pipewire version (which is more extensive) but I doubt that.

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