Android 12 Developer Preview 1

A developer preview of the new Android 12 is available, I installed it on my Pixel 3 XL, and it works fine, a lot of good news on social media too.

Nevertheless this can be worse with DP2 or later, so only do this on a spare phone, and if you know what you are doing.

[Android 12 Developer Preview

Android Developers

](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12)[First preview of Android 12

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Every day, Android apps help billions of people work, play, communicate, and create on a wi…

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](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/02/android-12-dp1.html)

You can side-load it or unlock your boot loader and use the flash utility.

[Downloads for Google Pixel

Android 12 Developer Preview

Instructions for downloading and installing preview system images for Pixel devices

Android Developers

](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/download)

Make sure you have installed the USB driver and start the Android Flash Tool from Chrome. https://flash.android.com/welcome

To lock your phone’s boot-loader afterwards, do this:

Install the platform tools from here:

And do this:

adb.exe reboot bootloader
fastboot.exe flashing lock