This spring, something is happening on Android that hasn’t happened in years. A dot release for Android 12 appears. The final development of Android 12L, which is already working very well on the Pixel 6 phones, is currently underway. The new interim version is expected to start next March.
In the first or second week, we’ll see. This has been foreseeable for some time but has not yet been officially confirmed by Google. According to the plan, the current beta 3 should definitely have been the last beta version of Android 12L.
Some colleagues are very sure that Android 12L will be released for the Pixel phones in the coming month as a system update and in the Android Open Source Project. Then, however, as a classic dot release, so very likely as Android 12.1. There hadn’t been such a sub-version for a while – most recently under Android 8 Oreo.
Android 12.1 for Pixel: Google probably calls it a feature drop
However, it also brings few innovations that you would immediately see or notice on a phone. I’ve been using the Android 12L Beta 3 on my Google Pixel 6 Pro for a few days now and a lot is no different. There are a few optical tweaks, revised animations and probably adjusted haptic feedback.
Remember: for phones, 12L is basically Android 12.1 (new API level, some Pixel-specific improvements)https://t.co/8Q2Xqj9PNq
— Alex Dobie (@alexdobie) February 9, 2022