With the official release of Android 14 only weeks away, today we’re bringing you Beta 5, the last scheduled update in our Android 14 beta program. It’s the last chance to make sure your apps are ready and provide feedback before non-beta users start getting Android 14. To enable you to test your applications on devices spanning multiple form factors, Beta 5 is available for Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold, in addition to the rest of the supported Pixel family and the Android emulator.

Beta 5 is our third Platform Stable Android 14 release, which means that the developer APIs and all app-facing behaviors are final for you to review and integrate into your apps, and you can publish apps on Google Play targeting Android 14’s SDK version 34. It includes the latest fixes and optimizations, giving you everything you need to complete your testing.

  • wile_e8@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Existing beta users, what say you? Have the latest betas been stable enough to install on my daily driver? Are there a lot of useful advantages over Android 13? If I’ve waited this long to install the beta, should I just stay on 13 until the official release?

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been on all the betas. It’s fine. There are still things I’d like to see resolved still, but it’s stable enough to use.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not in the beta (my phone isn’t included), but I wouldn’t bother installing a beta now when the full version will likely be here in 3-4 weeks.

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      1 year ago

      I was using beta 3 and 4, beta 4 is pretty good but I needed to do factory reset to fix some issues there

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      1 year ago

      I’m updating to this one now, but honestly no it’s not worth it. I’m on P6P and weird stuff like my call notification just not showing up and random gesture nav freezes has turned me off of participating in future betas. Missing phone calls because I can’t see them has been problematic in multiple events these last few months. I’m going to reset my phone come the official update.