The user can also have the keyguard entry move to the other side of the display by tapping it. When a user sets a PIN or pattern to unlock their device, the UI to enter the PIN or pattern will be shown on either the left or the right-hand side, depending on what side the user swiped from. As well, floating buttons to access your Google Pay wallet or your device controls can also be added. For example, if a user has multiple profiles on their device, then they can tap the user profile switcher on the top right of the lock screen. Notifications will then be displayed on the right-hand side, and after three notifications are shown, further ones are relegated to an overflow card.Īdditional buttons can be displayed on the lock screen. If you’re using a large screen device, then when a notification is received, the clock will shift to the left-hand side of the screen.
By default, like on Android 12, the clock takes up a large part of the center of the display on the lock screen, so long as there are no notifications. Just like on Android 12, Android 12L has a different lockscreen design dependent on whether or not the user has any pending notifications.
However, all of these changes and improvements that Material You added to the design of your phone were just that - improvements for your phone.
Apps can then apply these colors to their UIs in various ways, which is what apps that incorporate Material You typically do. Material You’s dynamic colors feature makes use of monet, a new theme engine introduced in Android 12 - and currently exclusive to Pixel phones - to extract colors from your wallpaper and generate a rich palette of pastel colors. User interface changes in Android 12L Redesigned apps and system elementsĪndroid 12 has a ton of visual changes, the biggest of which is Material You.
While we’ve already seen a lot of what’s on offer from Android 12L, we’re getting an even closer look at a lot of these changes (and more) thanks to a deep-dive post shared on Esper. Now we’re getting another look at all of its major UI changes and features, months in advance of its final release. Later, we learned that the next version of Android wasn’t going to be called Android 12.1, but was instead going to be called Android 12L. It had a number of improvements and features aimed at foldable smartphones, including a new dual-pane notifications panel, a new split-screen UI, and a whole lot more. Android 12 was only just released last month, though we managed to get our hands on what we thought was Android 12.1 before its release.