Google Casually Drops “Pixel 6” and “Pixel 6 XL” As Developer

A funny slip that probably doesn’t mean anything

We already know that the Pixel 6 is coming, and we already know that it will be offered in two different models: a standard and “Pro” variant. We’ve seen the design, heard the high-level specs, experienced some of the new internals, and continue to learn more about its Android 12 software, but every now and then we learn details about the device from Google them. themselves. Today … “leak” is an occasional name for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 XL.

Earlier today, the Google for Games Developer Summit 2021 kicked off. At the event, Google unveiled new tools for Android game developers, the most prominent of which is Google Play’s new “play while download” feature for Android 12 devices. Another new feature exclusive to select devices Android 12 is the Game Dashboard, an overlay that provides access to major utilities and allows the user to change the performance profile of the game through new game mode APIs.

In the developer documentation for the new Game Mode API, Google describes “Game Mode Interventions,” which are game-specific optimizations set by OEMs. Games can implement the behavior of the Game Mode API, offer game mode intervention settings to OEMs, or completely disable Game Mode interventions. Developers are encouraged to contact OEMs with their suggested intervention values ​​for the game mode, and that includes Google themselves. Google has opened a form for game mode service requests for Pixel devices, and one of the questions asks developers which devices WindowManager’s backbuffer resize intervention settings should be applied to. As an example, Google lists the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 XL, two devices that are yet to be released.

While this “leak” doesn’t prove the name (many people think the larger model will be called the Pixel 6 “Pro”), it’s still fun to see Google recognize its upcoming devices so casually. This could be a typo, of course, and whoever Googler wrote this form may be intending to write “Pixel 4” and “Pixel 4 XL” instead ( there is no Pixel 5 XL, after all).