Android 14 beta 5 is here, the final beta before stable launch

Since February, we’ve been seeing developer previews and betas of Android 14, the following main iteration of the world’s hottest working system. In the present day, Google has capped off these releases with the ultimate beta — effectively, lastly deliberate beta, anyway.

Android 14 beta 5 follows Android beta 4.1, which landed in direction of the tip of July. As one would anticipate, this final beta is full of fixes and bug squashing. It’s attainable there are new or up to date options included, however the official changelog makes no point out of any. As soon as we have now the beta put in, we’ll be capable of examine for ourselves.

Google will possible launch the steady model of Android 14 later this month or at the start of September. For the report, it launched Android 13 as a steady launch on August 15, 2022. It’s uncertain Google would launch this fifth beta after which the steady model solely days later, however we suppose it’s attainable. It’s extra possible we’ll see it in September. Android 12 launched in steady type on October 4, 2021, so it’s attainable it might take that lengthy.

Keep in mind that launching Android 14 in a steady type doesn’t have a lot of an impact on the common shopper. It can nonetheless be weeks and even months earlier than producers push their very own variations of Android 14 to telephones.

The primary telephones we anticipate to land with Android 14 out of the field are the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional. Barring any unexpected adjustments, we anticipate these telephones to drop in early October.