Android 11 developer preview was just posted here and based on my initial review of the documentation it doesn't appear that they're going to be breaking any more Pleco features this year, which is a relief; they're making users jump through one extra hoop to enable screen overlay permission like Screen Reader uses, but they appear to have refrained from removing support for screen overlays altogether (and in fact the fact that they are still refining that permission instead of removing it suggests that they may plan to keep it around for the long haul).
They also appear to have added a permission for apps to access all files on external storage even with their new Scoped Storage system; it's unlikely Google Play will allow us to submit a Pleco build with that permission included, since "MIUI's file picker sucks and we need to offer an alternative" is not the sort of thing they would consider a valid use case, but we can certainly include it in APKs on our website and thereby bring back the 'force legacy file chooser' option.
However, there does not appear to be any new API/permission for requesting background clipboard access, so it seems like Clipboard Monitor may be gone for good. And not really any other exciting new features for us, though the addition of an image decoder library to the NDK will help us clean up our OCR code a bit in a few years at whatever point we can start requiring Android 11.
They also appear to have added a permission for apps to access all files on external storage even with their new Scoped Storage system; it's unlikely Google Play will allow us to submit a Pleco build with that permission included, since "MIUI's file picker sucks and we need to offer an alternative" is not the sort of thing they would consider a valid use case, but we can certainly include it in APKs on our website and thereby bring back the 'force legacy file chooser' option.
However, there does not appear to be any new API/permission for requesting background clipboard access, so it seems like Clipboard Monitor may be gone for good. And not really any other exciting new features for us, though the addition of an image decoder library to the NDK will help us clean up our OCR code a bit in a few years at whatever point we can start requiring Android 11.