These are all the news that have come to the music player with the second Developer Preview of Android 14.

Just yesterday, Google announced the second developer preview of Android 14which It can now be downloaded on the latest Google Pixel, starting with Pixel 4a 5G. Among the novelties of this update we must highlight a tool to create your own wallpapers and a new accessibility feature called “Flash Notifications” that will turn on the camera or screen flash every time you receive a notification.

But that’s not all because Android 14 Developer Preview 2 is also going to bring back one of the best features of the music player of Android mobiles.

The wave-shaped interface returns to the Android music player

As discovered by Android Police media analysts the second development preview of Android 14 brings back the wave animation displayed in the notification panel when the music player is active.

Android 14’s music player will bring back the wave-shaped animation

This Android media player aesthetic will look familiar to you, as it It was seen, initially, in the first Beta of Android 13 QPR2but it disappeared in later versions. This could be because Google decided to postpone the inclusion of this function until Android 14 or that the big G really never intended to launch it in Android 13 and did so by mistake.

There is a new “Speakers and Displays” section in the media output selector. Google Cast devices still don’t show up in the output selector by default, as it requires app support. pic.twitter.com/fAqNlVHj0L

—Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) March 8, 2023

But that is not the only novelty that comes to the Android music player with this second previous version for developers, because notorious leaker Mishaal Rahman He recently published a tweet, which we leave you on these lines, in which he reveals that a new section called “Speakers and Displays” appears when clicking on the playback medium that allows you to send the music not only to your speakers but also other connected devices such as smart displays or devices with Android TV and Google TV.