- Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 offers improved support for themed app icons.
- For apps that don’t natively offer a monochrome icon, QPR2 lets the system automatically generate one for theming purposes.
- A new “Create” option also appears for icon theming, which may be related to in-development AI-powered tools.
You may have thought today was going to be all about the Pixel 10 and Google’s latest hardware, but that has only been the start of things. No sooner did Google wrap things up with Jimmy Fallon and the Jonas Brothers than we got our first whiff of Android 16 QPR2 incoming, as Google released its initial beta to Pixel testers.
Right now we’re looking through all the QPR2 Beta 1 changes on our phones to spot some of the highlights, and one we’ve already taken for a spin lets you force themed icon colors on apps that don’t natively support them.