This feature fixes the aforementioned ambiguity by showing a visual preview of the launcher as the user is performing a back gesture that’ll exit the app. This is why Google introduced predictive back gesture navigation in Android 13. To solve this problem, Android needs to be able to “predict” what will happen so that it can provide some kind of feedback to the user. Since apps can control the behavior of back presses or implement custom back stacks, there’s often no way for the system itself to know what will happen when the back gesture is performed until after it’s done.
in the form of a dialog) asking the user if they want to “exit” them, but many apps don’t do this. Apps can process back press events and provide feedback (eg. This is because there’s usually no feedback indicating what will happen when the back gesture is performed. When using Android’s back gesture, it isn’t always clear to the user whether the action will exit the app or navigate the user to a previous screen within the app. While I don’t have a laundry list of new features to share, I’ve put together a list of changes I’m confident are being developed for Android 14. Other changes we can infer based on how close they were to being completed before Google froze development of Android 13. Some features we’re expecting to see in the next version of Android were already introduced in Android 13, but they either needed more time in the kitchen or developer buy-in, leaving Google no choice but to defer their release. However, Google sometimes lets slip bits and pieces of what they’re working on, as not every change is confidential. The Android 14 Developer Preview will give us a taste of what to expect, but we’ll have to wait at least four months if not longer before we get our hands on it. Since Google develops Android behind closed doors, we won’t know the full extent of what’s new in Android 14 until the company releases its source code late next year. Google may have just released Android 13 a little over a month ago, but they’re already hard at work on the next major version of Android, Android 14.