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The second Android 12 developer preview improves picture-in-picture and more.

The second Android 12 Developer Preview – the Android 12 developer beta, as it were – is here, bringing smoother picture-inpicture transitions, additional privacy settings for notifications on lockscreen, and other perks.

While this preview does, as the name suggests, have a ton of things that only concern app developers, some perks should excite every Android user, as laid out in an Android Developers Blog post. When swiping up-to-home while watching media, the transition to picture-in-picture mode happens while you’re making the gesture, for instance.

Users also get expanded privacy and security controls for which notifications show up on lockscreen, and should expect better UX experiences on round-edged phones as devs get better tools to adapt their apps. Other perks are strictly behindthe-scenes, like letting developers make sure their apps aren’t interrupted by overlay alerts (helpful if you’re in the middle of making a transaction or sending money over Venmo, say). DAVID LUMB