The developer website was accidentally launched, and Android 11 may provide these features

The login page of the Android 11 developer website was accidentally launched a few days ago, almost a month earlier than the normal launch time. Unfortunately, the links in it are not usable.

Although it is still early to talk about most of the functional improvements in Android 11, hints and clues about some smaller features are already available.

As discovered by Android Police, the first clue about Android 11 came from the Android 11 Developer Preview page. Before it was reverted to the Android 10 page, 9to5google discovered three core principles, which can be said to be what Google developers expect from Android 11.

• System changes may affect apps running on Android 11
• Provide new privacy protection measures on how to protect user privacy in applications
• New features and new APIs will be available for folding, sharing, media, NNAPI, biometrics, and more

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It explicitly mentions new APIs for foldable products, which is not surprising. In fact, Google quickly updated a set of SDKs and simulators for foldable phones before the release of Galaxy Fold last year. And just a few days ago, Samsung just released the vertically foldable Galaxy Z Flip. Obviously, Android 11 will provide more and more direct support for foldable devices.

Unfortunately, this page was quickly deleted by Google and restored to the Android 10 page, but the exposure of the first preview version of Android 11 should not be too far away.

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In addition, there have been some recent reports about new features that may be included in Android 11. For example, developers in the XDA community discovered that Android 11 may have a feature called "Share to Print", which will add a print entry to the Android share list, but this entry is only displayed when sharing pictures or PDF files.

Share to Print will also automatically convert or resize files as needed for the available printers on your phone. This could mean a photo printer will receive a high-quality photo at the appropriate size, while a traditional printer might receive an image converted to PDF as needed.

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In addition, Google has previously announced that Android 11 will add Emoji 13.0 launched by the Unicode Consortium, which includes 62 new emojis and 55 skin colors and gender variations.

The dark mode provided in Android 10 may also be enhanced, and the automatic switching dark mode function that appeared in the beta version may make a comeback.

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The feature may allow users to automatically switch to dark mode at a specified time, or automatically switch according to local sunrise and sunset times, but because it requires location permissions to track the user's local time, this feature has not been very popular.

Normally, Google will release the first developer preview of the new version of Android in March, and then will provide a detailed introduction to the feature updates of the new version of Android at Google I/O in the middle of the year. Finally, the new version will be officially updated in the fall.