After sitting just behind the curtain in the first Android 13 developer preview, Google has released the new music notification panel with an updated design including (wonderful) album art ...

The album art, name, and artist are at the top, the seek bar is in the middle, and the controls are at the bottom. In Android 13, it almost looks like the controls are scattered around the ...

Android 13 Developer Preview 2 is out ... Instead of showing the album art in a thumbnail, the art now covers the entire background of the notification. The media notification can't be collapsed ...

In yet another throwback move, Album art player theming has also returned in Android 13. No matter the content – including videos – the album art will envelop and theme the mini player in the ...

Android 13 turns that on its head ... and the whole background pulls album art when available. The audio output picker is redesigned too, enabling you to easily switch to linked speakers or ...

Seang Chau, VP of Engineering at Google, highlighted optimisations throughout ART (Android Runtime, the application runtime environment used by the Android OS, which replaced Dalvik): “In Android 13, ...

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He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is releasing the second Android 13 developer preview on Thursday, and it includes a major new feature: apps will have to ask ...

and that includes the recent launch of Android 13 Beta 1. Previously, Android 13 was only available to developers, but the program was expanded to include anyone who's willing to deal with ...