Whilst Google announced a ton of AI powered features for Android 14 at Google I/O, it seems like most of them will be Pixel exclusive…

Hoping Samsung does more with OneUI 6 since Google’s really pushing for Pixel exclusivity on Android now 🙄

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But of course the restriction to sideloading older apps exists for all Android 14 phones…

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what restrictions?

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You now can’t even sideload an app with a target SDK level that is too low. This locks you out of a bunch of older abandoned FOSS apps that often are very lightweight on storage.

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sidenote: what is the purpose of the target SDK? why do both minimum and target SDKs have to exist?

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https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/behavior-changes-all#kill-own-background-processes

No more apps to kill all the background processes and free up memory.

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Not a bad thing, honestly. Free RAM is wasted RAM.

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Exactly. The way Android manages RAM is not the same as Windows, ie. full memory utilisation ≠ out-of-memory scenario.

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Depends how much free RAM we talking but yeah.

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this I’m excited for! Also a more useful share sheet!

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having only just moved to android 13, it seems a bit weird

but as someone without google apps… Android updates don’t seem to change a lot anymore

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I hope one UI gets a face lift. It’s so Samsung lol

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I’m hoping for opus Bluetooth support in AOSP and not just for Pixel. Better yet if it was the pipewire version (which is more extensive) but I doubt that.

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