Iāve been using the Android 14 Beta for a while now so nothing really new to me for now, but what I liked since the beta is that the battery life got better.
The ability to give apps permissions on a per-file basis is also cool, although it made some apps unusable probably because they arenāt supporting that right now (but maybe that changed or will change soon now that the stable release is out).
So what are the changes you noticed the most and which ones do you like or hate so far?
Nothing I hate. Iām on a Pixel 5, so super outdated but will be making a leap for the Pixel 8 Pro. I think itās quick and snappy though. No real complaints here.
I like it, seems more refined with some nice QoL tweaks.
The haptics are broken though. Swiping between recent apps has gone and sometimes pressing back it doesnāt vibrate.
Regular P7 here, and yeah, I noticed the camera update too which actually annoyed me a bit at first. I do like how they moved the camera and video buttons from the slidey menu down to dedicated toggles at the bottom though, but I was on a photo spree yesterday and the amount of times I clicked the photo button instead of the shutter button is astounding.
Also I have noticed some apps are a lot slower now. I was reading a long Wikipedia page yesterday and about halfway through it started jittering a lot and would take a few seconds to scroll after I actually scrolled, which isnāt something that was happening in even longer pages than that one before the update
Is there any good reason why they flipped the camera switcher and photo library around? Iāve been constantly hitting the camera switcher by accident since the update to the camera app. Minor gripe, but I canāt see the point of the switch.
GrapheneOS Android 14 will be dropping this month. I donāt know what new features there will be but looking forward to it
Iāve considered this swap. You got some experience with it, what do you miss?
pretty boring, same as android 13 with some bug fixes and extra buttons in places
