Android 13 releases today for Google Pixel smartphones - XDA Developers

Today, Google is releasing Android 13 for Google Pixel smartphones, following months of developer previews and beta releases!

Alongside the update, the company has also announced that Android 13’s source code is now available in AOSP.

Currently, all the applications on your Android device can access the files on your phone’s storage with the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.

This permission, however, will allow the apps to access all kinds of media files on the storage.

It works by leveraging the Android system to select documents on the device that are then selectively shared with the app in use, rather than the app having wider storage access to the files on the device itself.

Photo Picker is also rolling out to older Android devices through a Google Play services update.

If you’ve unlocked the bootloader of your device, you can manually install the device OTA image or factory image, or use Google’s web-based Android Flash Tool to automate the process.

In any case, download the Android 13 image for your device, and then you can install it too.

Smaller OEMs, independent developers, and other entities without pre-release access can today take a look at the Android 13 source code to analyze or rebase their work on top of the new release!

Unfortunately, we can’t offer a definitive timeline for when every OEM will release an Android 13 update for their devices, but we can list some of the devices we suspect will get the update soon based on whether or not a beta update has already been made available.

Here are the devices that have received an Android 13 developer preview or public beta release and thus are expected to get the stable update soon:.

Of course, we don’t know exactly how close each OEM is to releasing a stable update for these devices, but we know some are very close?

In Google’s announcement post, the company confirms that devices from “Samsung Galaxy, Asus, HMD (Nokia phones), iQOO, Motorola, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Sharp, Sony, Tecno, Vivo, Xiaomi and more” will be receiving the update “later this year”, though it’s unclear if that refers to a stable update or a beta release

With this release, Google will now set sights on Android 14 — and beyond