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Because of this, I can’t be 100% certain what Google intends to do with these new features and APIs, and I don’t have privileged insight into Google’s development plans. Google hides many user-facing features until the public beta program, and they also leave some new APIs with little to no documentation. If you’ve been following my coverage of Android 13, then you’ll know that a lot of the features I documented haven’t been announced yet. Android 13's many hidden improvements for smart displays In fact, I’m willing to say that many new features in Android 13 are purposely built around this smart display/tablet convergence. That’s what companies like Samsung and Lenovo have already realized, and it’s an area that Google is exploring heavily in Android 13. A smart display is basically just a tablet that’s stationary, so if you were to dock a tablet, it would essentially become a smart display given the right software. None of them are really intended to be used as a general purpose computer. None of these devices have access to Google Play and its enormous catalog of applications. My second-generation Nest Hub seems to run an OS based on Android 7 Nougat, according to (not shown here).Įvery smart display that currently runs Android does so with an incredibly outdated version of the OS. The "Google Cast" platform on the Nest Hub is an incredibly stripped down build of Android. Google’s own Nest Hub also runs Android, at least the second generation model does since the first generation model was flipped to Fuchsia OS post-release.

Both the Facebook Portal and Amazon Echo Show run heavily customized forks of AOSP, for example.

Take a peek under the hood of the most popular smart displays on the market, however, and you’ll find they often do run Android in some form. In addition, there’s the smart display, which you may be surprised to hear since their operating systems typically don’t resemble Android in any way. As I mentioned on the Android Bytes podcast, there’s also the emerging Android-on-Windows ecosystem and the oft neglected desktop mode experience available on many phones. There are other types of devices that run Android and have large screens, however. These large screen changes improve the experience of using a tablet, Chromebook, or foldable, which are the main three form factors that Google says are “key surface for the future of Android.” Android 13 builds upon the large screen features introduced in 12L, with tweaks to the taskbar and multi-user experience among other changes. When Google released the second developer preview of Android 13 last week, they addressed something that I know many users have been wondering: will it include all the large screen improvements of Android 12L? The answer, of course, is yes.