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Android 11 Beta launch event will be live streamed on June 3rd

Google I/O, the technology giant’s annual developers conference, has been canceled this year because of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the company has decided to have an exclusive launch event for the upcoming major Android version — Android 11.
The company will be hosting a launch event on 3rd June for the Android 11 Beta which will be live-streamed. The event’s live stream will start at 15:00 PM UTC (08:30 PM IST) and will last for about an hour.
For those who are unaware, Google was supposed to release the Android 11 Beta version this month but it pushed the update to 1st June and instead released the Android 11 Developer Preview 4 (DP4) version.
Coming back to the launch event, it will include the features packed inside the new Android 11 along with updates for developers. This will be followed by a live Q&A session in which anybody can participate using #AskAndroid hashtag.
Along with this, the company will also make available 12 talks which were scheduled for the Google I/O 2020. Here’s the list of those talks.

-What’s new in Android
-What’s new in System UI
-All things privacy in Android 11
-Storage access with Android 11
-The state of Kotlin on Android
-Get Composed
-What’s new in Android Jetpack
-What’s new in Android Development Tools
-What’s new in Design Tools
-What’s new in Google Play
-What’s new in Play Commerce
-Screens – large, small and foldable

The company was earlier rumored to announce the Pixel 4a smartphone at this same event but as per the latest reports, the launch event for the Google Pixel 4a has been delayed till mid-July and the sale for the same is expected to talk place in August.
You can find out the list of all the exciting features of Android 11 here. You can watch the live stream on YouTube as well as Twitter.

by Jeet