Android Q Beta out now

[AJB88]

Android Q Beta has just been released for Pixel devices. Anybody brave enough to run it as a daily?

https://www.google.com/android/beta

In the past I have run Beta 2 and 3 as daily's but never the first release, apparently they are releasing 6 Beta's before public this time round.

https://9to5google.com/2019/03/13/android-q-beta-l...

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The only issue I've had with the last few Beta was Barclays wasn't supported, everything else worked fine.

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Expect Beta 3 to start working with most apps, Barclays are just super slow, they haven't even adopted Android Pay yet.

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ging84 said:

I don't understand why anyone would put a beta OS on thier phone these days. 4 or 5 years ago you might get some nice new features, but now the changes are almost entirely cosmetic.
On top of that smart phones have become increasingly important for daily life. Contactless payments, banking apps, 2 factor authentication. I don't want to be without my phone for the hour or so it might take to do the update, let alone the days it might be if stuff goes wrong.

Hour or so for an update? Android updates in the background since P so you just go about your business, next time you restart it, it switches over. Have you read the changelog between P and Q? quite a few "new features"

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the BETA is only available for Pixel phones as stated in my first post.

native screen recorder, system wide dark theme, location permissions.

Edited by AJB88 on Thursday 14th March 21:01

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I've got quite a bit of dark mode turned on currently on my Pixel 2 XL running Pie ad much prefer it to the white, its not black its a dark grey.

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Non Pixel phones apart from Flagships will probably be mid next year.

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Just read it also ups the clock speed from 2.4 to 2.8 on the Pixel 3 phones.

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Just read it also ups the clock speed from 2.4 to 2.8 on the Pixel 3 phones.

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Corso Marche said:

Off topic, but anybody else have an animation in the Google Pill/Search Bar on the homescreen of their Pixel. It first appeared for me yesterday, and is an animation of a spring flower popping up. Ties in with the Google Doodle from today.

I've mixed feelings about random animations appearing on my homescreen. Fine on the Google Search page or my Discover Feed, but not sure I want this to become a regular thing on my phone's homescreen.

Not got that on my 2XL yet

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https://9to5google.com/2019/03/20/google-doodle-pi...

Here's a post about it, tried to do the long press on the search menu to see if its enabled but all as I get is a paste option.

Edited by AJB88 on Wednesday 20th March 18:46

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can you get to the setting? long pressing for me just gives me a paste option.

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The option has literally just appeared, I'm on one of the BETA versions of the Google App.

Apparently it will appear more for Doodles.

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I never bothered as Barclays have put a bit on their app page now saying it wont be supported till its final. If you have enrolled just go into software updates and press check. it will OTA update.

Beta 4 should be fairly stable now.

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AH thats stange its always been instant for me as well

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Alex said:

About to give it a go now on my Pixel 3XL...

Let us know how you get on, I expect Beta 4 to be fairly stable, don't want to loose my Banking apps this time so will just wait for release.

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Barclays wont work I know that, ill just wait for the release to come out.

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I would wait especially if you depend on non-google apps.

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Yeh Barclays have always been the same, this is the same company that doesn't support Google Pay.

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Google as announced Android Q will be called Android 10, no more dessert names.