Android 12’s audio-coupled haptic effect is even cooler than it sounds - XDA Developers

One of the coolest-sounding features in Android 12 is the audio-coupled haptic effect, a feature that effectively promises to vibrate your phone in accordance with the ongoing audio session.

Developer kdrag0n, who recently gave us our first look at Android 12’s wallpaper-based theming system, wanted to try out the new audio-coupled haptic effect feature, so he whipped up a quick app to see which Pixel phones support the feature.

The generated haptic data is sent along with audio data down to the audio HAL, which will require the device to support audio-coupled-haptic playback.” Unfortunately, it looks like neither of Google’s latest Pixel phones — namely, the Pixel 4a 5G or Pixel 5 — support HapticGenerator.

Google’s Pixel 4 supports Android 12’s audio-coupled haptic effect feature.

Here are two videos, both recorded by XDA Senior Member cstark27, which showcase the audio-coupled haptic effect in action:.

Google has toyed with audio-coupled haptics in the past, but Android 12’s new feature is far more versatile than anything we’ve previously seen from the company.

This is why I think Android 12’s new audio-coupled haptics might be one of the OS’s coolest features and why it’s unfortunate that Google’s latest Pixel phones seem to lack support for it

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