Announcements about the latest release of Android are dependably the highlight of Google’s yearly developer conference I/O and this year was no different. Amongst the numerous significant and somewhat unnerving announcements made at Google I/O 2018, Android P was a major highlight.
Android O (Oreo) is still only on 4.9% of devices. Be that as it may, Google is as of now giving us a sneak peek at the following version of Android. At Google I/O, the first public beta was propelled for Android P which I’ve installed on my phone and I cannot wait to walk you through everything that’s new in the tenth release of Android.
Here’s a list of Android P features that we will go over in this post.
Android P Features
Design
Let’s face it, when Android was propelled, design and pretty-ness wasn’t generally a highlight, it stood for openness. And keeping in mind that that basic principle behind the product hasn’t transformed one bit, what has changed is Google’s position on the design of Android and all their other products by and large. This was declared in 2014 when Google announced the Material Design framework for building beautiful products on the web and on mobile. Quick forward to 2018 and that vision has plainly backfired. Instead of making a brand uniquely identifiable, Material has sort of unified their look and feel, preventing them from standing out in the ecosystem. So to fix that, Google announced an invigorated interpretation of Material design with what they’re calling Material Theming.
Material Theming allows brands to express themselves more uniquely than before while still standing on the foundation of the core Material principles. The guidelines now grasp the differences and uniqueness. The plain first product that showcases this intention is Google’s version of Android P or what we popularly call Stock Android. Google needs their products to shine in their own light, so they’ve made their OS look and feel more like themselves. You’ll notice this intention wherever across Android P if you are running it on a Pixel device. Wherever else the company is giving more freedom to developers and OEMs to put a coat of paint that best represents them. As found in the screenshots above Google is emphasizing typography and shapes, each component of the framework is now more rounded and has Product Sans as the framework default primary font.
Adaptive Brightness
One of the places where things never appear to improve is in the battery department. Smartphones are shipping with screens bigger than any time in recent memory and resolutions up to 4K, yet they still don’t figure out how to last even multi-day at best. To fix this problem on Android, the Android group partnered with Deep Mind (Google’s AI division) to bring some serious innovations in the vitality consumption aspect of Android.
The plain first instance of this partnership is seen with the Adaptive Brightness settings. Google has figured out how to use on device machine learning to the brightness settings so now your screen will take in your preference over time and ensure your screen is dependable at the most optimal brightness level. Gone are the times of physically fiddling with the brightness.
Adaptive Battery
Adaptive Battery is another part of the framework which will utilize AI smarts to ensure you’re not running out of juice before the day’s end. Adaptive Battery utilizes machine learning to comprehend the utilization patterns of clients and after that depends on the analysis it limits the power to the infrequently utilized apps.
The device will find out about these apps over time, so in the long run, you’ll notice significant improvements in your battery life and furthermore, you’ll no longer be running low on battery because of some random application you installed a long time ago which still synchronizes in the background.
Motion Based Navigation
At the point when the iPhone X was announced a year ago, it was the public’s first glimpse at where smartphones were heading and what’s on hold for future. It didn’t take more than a couple of months for each other brand to “get inspired” by the iPhone design and now the market is flooded with devices from the likes of LG and Asus with the similar form factor and design. Safe to state that all-screen and no bezels are our future. Be that as it may, this design also opens up the room for new interaction models. One of the obvious ones is the signal based navigation which we also got to see on Android P.
Once you opt-in to utilize the motion based navigation, your navigation bar will transform into a more minimal control with a home button. Swiping up on the home button will take you to the ongoing apps screen. If you swipe up again, you’ll be taken to your everything apps section. If you need to quickly switch between apps you simply need to swipe right on the home button and after that swipe in the direction of the app you need to open. On content, it sounds complicated and for a good reason, it is. It’s still too ahead of schedule to state if this is the right method to do navigation, yet we’ll probably have a clearer picture of things once the steady release is out.
Display Cutouts
How about we get a reality clear before moving forward. The iPhone X was NOT the first phone to come up with the notch. We saw a similar approach taken by the Essential Phone. And keeping in mind that Essential dealt with the status bar in their own way, Google needs to help makers do the notch right. All things considered, it’s the style slant amongst phones in 2018.
Android P naively supports display cutouts otherwise known as notches. The framework will organize the status bar contents with respect to the display cutout. If you are on Android P, you can simulate a display cutout by going to the developer options and tapping on the Simulate Display Cutout option. This option will give developers a chance to more readily style their apps for the phones that come out with notches.
New Launcher
With each new release of Android, one of the things that get consistently modified is the launcher. And keeping in mind that it’s not a compulsion for OEMs to utilize the launcher that Google ships it’s interesting to see the smarts they build into it. In Android P the launcher plays a considerable role in bringing forth the idea of making the OS more brilliant.
When you swipe up from the home button, you’ll get a list of recommended applications and ongoing into the all apps section you’ll see proposed actions that you can go up against certain apps. As an example, if your earphones are connected you will be prompted to play your music if you utilize Spotify.
Better Volume Controls
As far back as Android Lollipop was released, Google has made a wreck of the Android volume controls. They’ve heard us and they’re finally fixing it for once and for all on Android P. With this release of Android when you press the volume button, you’ll be welcomed by another vertical slider which shows up on the right side of the screen instead of on the top.
As a matter of course, it will now control the media volume. What’s more, if you need to toggle the ringer, you have a dedicated title only for that. To deal with the cautions and ringer volume you can tap on the rigging icon on the bottom and it will take you to the sound settings where you can change the alert and ringer volumes. This finally eliminates a migraine that Android has been giving us since the Lollipop days.
Notifications
Android’s notifications are probably as well as can be expected get on any platform. What’s more, with each release of Android, they’ve made the notifications much more delightful and feature rich. On Android P, for example, you would now be able to get a preview of your conversations on the notifications itself and this includes media previews also. Another exciting addition is the Manage notification option. Right in the notifications shade.
Tapping on that will quickly take you to the list of apps where you can kill their notifications. The framework is also bringing its smarts here and if it notices you constantly swiping without end notifications from an app, it will really inquire as to whether you permanently need to kill the notifications for that app.
Quick settings
This is probably one of the only section that has seen a significant visual overhaul in Android P. The quick settings options are now rounder and unfortunately, tapping on the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth tiles don’t show a list of devices/networks to connect to like it used to on Android O and below.
Yet, this is only a beta preview so that may change. You’ll also notice your cell status moves to the bottom of the card on swiping down on the quick settings section.
Better Auto Rotate
This is one of the issues I can personally relate to at all dimensions with all platforms. I hate auto rotate I don’t need the phone to go in landscape when I tilt the screen it should give me a chance to do that myself. Yet, that process should be consistent.
Fortunately, this is fixed in Android P. Now when you tilt your screen, instead of rotating the screen, you’ll get a little prompt on the lower right corner and if you tap that, only at that point will your screen rotate. The majority of this is done without you having to turn on auto rotate. World peace has finally been restored.
Screenshot Annotation
Every one of the folks who are aficionados of taking screenshots can rejoice as Google is finally bringing screenshot annotation feature natively to Android. You should simply take a screenshot using the volume down and power button and you’ll get a notification with the option of editing the screenshot.
Once you tap Edit, it will take you to a screen where you can increase your screenshots or highlight something important in it. Concurred there are apps to do the equivalent yet it’s nice to have it built into the framework itself.
Settings App
The Settings app has also received a new coat of paint and now looks more colorful than at any other time.
Each setting option is now highlighted with a different color blob and related settings are nicely concealed. This is as a distinct difference to the monotone UI we found in Android 8.0 and below. A pursuit bar is right on top to help you quickly seek through the settings. Be that as it may, apart from that, there’s nothing new in here.
Digital prosperity
Finally, Google has put a spotlight on the idea of digital prosperity and has emphasized that one should focus on the Joy of Missing out. To promote this plan, it’s trying to make it obvious that you’re using your device too much and it’s time to connect with your loved ones. This is highlighted in Android in various ways. First, Android P will ship with a dashboard which will give clients fine-grained details about all the apps that you have utilized in multi day, how long have you utilized them for, what number notifications they’ve sent you and what number times you have unlocked your device. This will allow and help clients to all the more likely deal with their digital lives.
Android P will also support and App Timer which will allow clients to set the duration for which you need to utilize the app. If you surpass that, the framework will prompt you and reveal to you that it’s time to set aside your phone. Android P also has another Shush Mode which will turn on do not disturb when you place your face screen down. This will set aside a few minutes and are at the moment instead of being distracted.
Furthermore, finally, Google is also focusing on the way that a good nights sleep is essential to maintain a sound lifestyle. This is for what reason they’re introducing a feature called Wind Down. When you request that Google Assistant Wind Down it will trigger a bedtime routine and set your screen to highly contrasting which will help your brain unwind and along these lines helping you nod off.For More Updates Keep Visiting Darkness Project V3.
Android P Features: Conclusion
Android P is definitely Google’s most ambitious and feature-rich release since Lollipop. It not only includes new features, it also has helpful additions to the framework that helps you live a superior life. It will interest see the updates Google adds to the upcoming beta releases and you can make certain we’ll cover them for you.