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TL;DR
- The most recent Android 14 beta contains enhancements in how the OS handles a stylus.
- Urgent a stylus’s tail button will open the default note-taking app.
- New settings to disregard stylus button presses and a shortcut to vary the default note-taking app have additionally been added.
Android 14‘s third beta is right here, and it offers us a superb have a look at among the modifications that Google has deliberate for the way forward for Android. With Android 14, Google is enhancing how the OS handles stylus, with new settings to vary the default notes app and a toggle to disregard all stylus button presses.
As noticed by Mishaal Rahman, Android 14 comprises code to distinguish between numerous buttons on a stylus: the first button closest to the tip, the secondary button, the tertiary button, and the tail button. Urgent the tail button will launch the note-taking app you could have set as default.
Additional, Mishaal reveals which you can see some stylus-specific settings once you join a stylus to your Android 14 cellphone or pill and go to the system particulars web page. These embrace a shortcut to vary the “default notes app” and a toggle to “ignore all stylus button presses.”
It’s at all times good to see Android enhancing its assist for equipment used inside the ecosystem. However the enhancements additionally need to be seen within the mild of the truth that Google’s personal Pixel Pill was rumored to be coming with a stylus referred to as “Stylus for Pixel Pill.” The Pixel Pill already helps USI 2.0 stylus, however Google didn’t go forward and announce a devoted stylus tailor-made for his or her pill.
Android 14 additionally not too long ago gained enhancements for {hardware} keyboards which might be normally used with tablets. Coincidentally, Google was additionally rumored to be engaged on a “Keyboard for Pixel Pill” that hasn’t been introduced but.
Whereas it’s not talked about that these options had been deliberately made for the Pixel Pill or have been locked to it, the coincidence is tough to disregard. We aren’t complaining, although.
Google has solely launched the Pixel Pill charging dock and an official case with a metallic ring stand. Seeing the progress of those options in Android 14, we hope to see Google announce the keyboard and stylus quickly for the pill.
