Although Google doesn’t release the source code for new Android versions before the stable release for Pixel phones is ready, we seldom get a glimpse at some upcoming features through code changes submitted to the AOSP Gerrit. One of the features we’ve been expecting to land in the upcoming Android 12 release is app hibernation, a feature that will free up storage space by deleting temporary files from unused apps. While this feature hasn’t made an appearance in either of the two publicly available Developer Preview, we can confirm code for the feature is present in the leaked build that we recently obtained.
