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Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Every time there’s a new Android release, I question if there’s some hidden meaning behind some of the new features. Did the Android team introduce a new feature in anticipation of a future trend, to standardize something that’s already in use, because OEMs asked for it, or solely because it’s needed to support a feature on the next Pixel phone? It’s tough to pin down exactly why Google introduces a new Android feature sometimes, because they’re often tight-lipped about certain changes and I’m not privy to the meetings where the planning all goes down. But when Google announced the Pixel 7 series the other day, I had an “aha!” moment because I could finally align the phones’ new software features with the Android 13 APIs that power them.
I’ve been writing about Android for years now, and more often than not, whenever I thought a new Android feature was designed for a Pixel … it usually was….