In a sign that Google plans to track last year’s early release cadence to preview the next version of its mobile OS, the Android Beta Feedback app was updated Thursday through the Play Store for Android 12.
With Android 10 / Q in 2019, Google made an Android Beta Feedback app available so that users could report bugs without visiting the bug tracker website. It appears automatically when you install the developer preview / beta, which was also the client used last year.
Google will ask you to delete the app after the Preview Program of the Year ends. Users who kept it on their device were greeted with an update to version 2.15-betterbug.external_20201211_RC02 – previously 2.11 on February 4.
The Feedback app is currently unusable and does not explicitly reference the Android 12 Developer Preview / Beta. That said, it’s a pretty good indication that it will launch soon and will likely be available again a month earlier. Last year’s Android 11 DP started in February instead of March.
Thank you for joining the Android Beta program. The program has ended and we are currently no longer accepting feedback through the app.
Google has presumably also updated it with new features to improve the feedback process, but those aren’t clear as the associated issue tracker isn’t live yet.
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