Android 12 is live in AOSP

&gt; To help protect private app data, Android 12 changes the default behavior of the adb backup command. For apps that target Android 12 (API level 31) or higher, when a user runs the adb backup command, app data is excluded from any other system data that is exported from the device.<p>It isn&#x27;t &quot;app data&quot;, it is my data! This is the straw that made me switch to LineageOS, my phone shouldn&#x27;t prevent me from accessing my data!

Google keeps on stripping down AOSP more and more. Its so barebones that nothing is usable out of the box anymore. It doesn&#x27;t even have a web browser these days.<p>All the default apps, contacts, calendar, etc haven&#x27;t been updated in 8+ years.<p>Any new feature doesn&#x27;t come to AOSP, it comes to Google Play Services.

Previously, I used to be excited about new OS versions coming out. Nowadays, I&#x27;m only looking for what did they break or block this time, and how much problems would it cause.

I don&#x27;t like Android 12 because of bigger zoomed in &#x27;everything&#x27;. I don&#x27;t like Windows 11 for kind of similar reason, less items in context menu, less customizable taskbar, bigger zoomed in start menu.<p>Don&#x27;t know what the f is going on with &quot;Modern&quot; UIs.

For every new release of android there is only one thing I care about, how will this affect termux?<p>So I did a google and looks promising ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;termux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;nyayhq&#x2F;comment&#x2F;h1j9jmj&#x2F;?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;termux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;nyayhq&#x2F;comment&#x2F;h1j9...</a> ).

I don&#x27;t know how to feel about the introduction of splash screens for all apps.<p>I imagine they were needed to disguise some initial rendering of the app, but as a user I really <i>really</i> don&#x27;t want to see splash screens when opening an app on a mobile device...

&gt; Notification UI updates - We also refreshed notification designs to make them more modern and useful.<p>Please.... please just for a couple of years can we stop doing this? Why does my notification UI have to change so frequently?

Material You is just gorgeous. I love the pastel color schemes it makes, and the shapes are very refreshing compared to what has been &quot;in&quot; for the last few years IMO

Sadly, the update to Pixel phones comes in the next few weeks they say.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;android-12-aosp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;android-12-aosp&#x2F;</a>

As an embedded linux developer, what Android brings is an unified UI(after all those x-windows variants plus Qt GUI). As long as the below list remains to be OSS, Android can be used in many non-realtime devices that need a GUI(with&#x2F;without touchscreen):<p><pre><code> * the linux kernel * the ART(java jvm) which most GUI apps depending on * base code to support the multimedia stack(video&#x2F;audio) * NDK(c&#x2F;c++) </code></pre> There are many devices can use Android for applications that have no need for google play store apps at all.

Gonna predict some of the more controversial changes:<p>- Removing GPay&#x2F;DeviceControls from power menu<p>- The new overscroll stretch animation<p>- The new lockscreen clock (very hit and miss)<p>- The new Material You widgets<p>Any I missed?

In addition to other regressions mentioned here, Android 12 also removes the ability to set a custom &quot;share&quot; screen (akin to Sharedr).

I don&#x27;t like Android 12 because of bigger zoomed in &#x27;everything&#x27;. I don&#x27;t like Windows 11 for kind of similar reason, less items in context menu, less customizable taskbar, bigger zoomed in start menu.<p>Don&#x27;t know what the f* is going on with &quot;Modern&quot; UIs.

Wasn&#x27;t wireguard supposed to be released natively in this version? I didn&#x27;t see anything in the release notes about this.

It took me way too long to realize the other-device-battery-indicators weren&#x27;t four days from four different calendars (which, before I realized what they really were, I figured you could tap to go see the full calendar)

Is there any decent Android (non Chinese) device that is free of Google privacy invading software ?

Very happy about the speed and privacy improvements. I&#x27;m excited to install this.

This is only tangentially related but... Anyone else cringe &#x2F; feel and overwhelming desire to turn off any video like the first one in this article (#AndroidDevSummit: tune in October 27-28!) where someone speaks in that excessively excited and optimistic voice? It is as cliché and gag inducing to me as the infomercial voiceover guy explaining how something simple thing is a disaster and how they have now solved it.<p>I can&#x27;t turn that shit off fast enough.<p>Also, I really like Keri Byron from Myth busters, etc. This is not a complaint about a personality or whatever. Just this delivery that seems to be everywhere in tech sales pitches and time shares.

Windows 11<p>macOS 11<p>Debian 11<p>Android 11<p>this is the only reason android 12 was released