Android 12 is so last week: Meet Android 12L, now in developer preview

Enlarge / Tablets have a dual-pane notification panel in Android 12L: The left side is quick settings, the right side is a list of notifications. (credit: Google)

Have you heard about the new version of Android? No, not Android 12-that launched an entire week ago! It's time to talk about the new new version of Android: "Android 12L."

Remember all those talks we had about a mid-cycle, tablet-focused release of Android that the community had unofficially dubbed "Android 12.1"? That release is officially "Android 12L," and it's out now as a developer preview.

Google started its surprise announcement with some big-screen stats:

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