
There are loads of different options available on the Google Play Store, and most OEMs package some live wallpapers with their devices, too. Android 14 may let you finally set different live wallpapers for the home and lock screensĪndroid smartphones have supported live wallpapers since Android 2.0 Eclair, and they've only improved over time. The above video was shared with us by Nail Sadykov and shows how it works. Will Google Wallet rely on developers specifying this information, or will the app do it automatically? Will these “suggestions” come in the form of notifications, or will the card just appear in Quick Access Wallet? The former is how location-based suggestions used to work, while the latter would be less in-your-face but still easily accessible through the lock screen shortcut and/or Quick Setting tile. Devices that declare this feature “ showing location-based suggestions for wallet cards provided by the default payment app.”Īs for how it will work, it's kind of up in the air. While digging through the API reference for Android 14 Beta 1, I discovered a new feature called “ FEATURE_WALLET_LOCATION_BASED_SUGGESTIONS”. Fortunately, Google may be bringing this feature back for users on Android 14. Years ago, back when Google Wallet was called Google Wallet ( yeah, it was a bit of a weird time), when you were near a location where you could use your loyalty card, the Wallet app would flag that you could use your loyalty card in the place that you're in. With the first Android 14 developer preview arriving on time and followed up quickly by the second and now a pair of betas, too, it's clear that we're following a similar release cadence to last year.

Android 13 dropped in its developer preview form in February 2022, followed by another developer preview, then four more beta releases until the final release of Android 13. There is no known release date for Android 14 yet, but we suspect that it will follow the same release cadence as in previous years. For those of you who are curious, these have been the dessert names (internal or public) of all the Android versions so far:
