Android 12L is a new version for big screens on tablets and foldables

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Android 12L is a modern reading for cock-a-hoop screens on tablets and foldables

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While Android 12 was just full released alongside the Google Picture element 6 and Google Picture element 6 Pro, another version of the OS has just been revealed – but not for phones. Or else, Mechanical man 12L will major harness the big screens of tablets and foldables.

Android 12L looks to glucinium an aesthetic restructuring that rearranges the UI to better use large screens, per the Android Developer Web log post introducing the new OS version – so don't expect any unaccustomed exclusive features, at the least not yet. Android 12L is available for developers, and wish come to users starting azoic next year with a full release in Q2 2022.

The generous switch is to a two-pillar layout, which allows users to pull down to a lesser extent screen-intensive tasks suchlike notification shades and Quick Settings down to same side, while Settings and other system apps are likewise optimized. Fed up inputting your PIN or lock traffic pattern in the middle of the screen? Android 12L moves IT to one broadside (which you tin bring round the other by tapping the empty screen area). There are also refined animations for foldables making for sande app transitions when shifting from outer to full-size inner displays.

Split screen has also been improved with a new taskbar to hold your most-utilized apps, and by default, all apps lavatory be used in rip-screen mode even if they aren't resizable. New intuitive gestures let users dredge-and-drop apps from the taskbar to either side of the screen door – a motion that iPadOS users will be familiar with. And comparable iPadOS 15, Android 12L has manual controls in overview to start part-block out mode by tapping a button (the new 'split' natural action).

Google is likewise improving compatibility modes to make reliable apps look meliorate when upsized for bigger screens, but the Google Play Store will also monish users if an app isn't optimized for large screens – though that's not coming until 2022.

Android tablets: what's coming alongside Android 12L?

We've got a few months for developers to implement Mechanical man 12L compatibility for their apps, and even then, it seems comparable we'll undergo to wait until Q2 2022 for the full edition of Humanoid 12L to land with consumers, per Gizmodo.

That will be "in time for the next undulate of Android 12 tablets, Chromebooks, and foldables," the Mechanical man Developers wrote in their blog. That will likely admit the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8, which we'Ra expecting in rude 2022.

we haven't heard of many another more Android tablets coming in that time cast, but Mechanical man 12L could improve tablets that'll be out by and then like the Nokia T20, Surface Live on 3, and TCL TAB Pro 5G – every cheaper tablets that could use improvements in UI promised aside the new version of Humanoid.

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Saint David is now a mobile reporter at Cnet. Formerly Unsettled Editor, US for TechRadar, he covered phones, tablets, and wearables. Atomic number 2 still thinks the iPhone 4 is the best-looking smartphone ever made.