Google has made available the fourth and final Android 13 beta. The company said the formal release, which is coming soon, will affect supported Pixel devices “in a few weeks.”
Android 13’s fourth beta is intended for app developers to enable them to carry out last-minute testing and development with the next release in mind. This version of Android 13 for Pixel smartphones and the Android emulator is actually a release candidate.
Since the previous beta, when Platform Stability was attained, all app surfaces—including SDK and NDK APIs, app-facing system behaviors, and limitations on non-SDK interfaces—have been finalized. The most stable pre-release version of the program is expected to be Beta 4/the Release Candidate, which is being distributed right now. It contains patches for previously identified difficulties.
The updated photo picker, notification permission, themed app icons, per-app language support, HDR video, Bluetooth LE Audio, and support for MIDI 2.0 over USB are just a few of the new privacy features that come with Android 13. As an improvement over Android 12L, there are also better tools available for app developers to make the most of tablets and large-screen devices.
You should get this new build as an OTA update in the next hours or days if your Pixel is already signed up for Google’s public beta program. If you’d like to test out this build, you can sign up for the program here. Once you’ve done that, the new release will be sent to you just like any other update.
