Top 10 Features in Android O

Google has quite recently revealed the first developer preview of Android O, which permits us to take a sneak look at all the new components coming in Android’s next real refresh. This refresh fundamentally concentrates on streamlining notifications and enhancing battery life.

Android O presents an assortment of new features for users and developers.

Here are the top 10 features in Android O:

Better Battery Life:

The previous few Android refreshes have seen a ton of components, for example, Doze mode and Doze in a hurry went for enhancing battery life. With Android O, Google is further bracing down on whimsical applications eating the battery out of sight.

With Android O, Google is presenting extra programmed restricts on what applications can do (or can’t do) out of sight.

Android O places particular cutoff points on verifiable communicates (signals sent by an application for different applications or exercises to follow up on), area updates and foundation administrations. All these happen consequently out of sight, without clients managing anything all alone.

This will anticipate errant applications which you haven’t utilized as a part of quite a while from sapping your battery life while actualizing foundation forms.

Streamlined notifications:

Android O expects to comprehend this with its new ‘notification channels’ component, which lets application engineers amass notifications together by sort. This permits users to have a granular control on each channel. Ex: Users can choose how news based notifications will be shown or how text-based notifications are shown.

Notifications can be divided into different diverse channels like games news, instant messages, music applications and users can control each channel independently. The notification shade will likewise gather notifications by channel, making it substantially simpler to look through important notifications. Users can likewise square or rest an entire divert in one go on the off chance that they wish.

AutoFill:

With Android O, Google is including stage bolster for AutoFill. When users select which AutoFill application they need to utilize, it will have the capacity to fill passwords and different points of interest over the entire working framework.

Picture in picture:

Google is likewise presenting picture-in-picture mode (PIP Mode) with Android O. With PIP Mode, users will have the capacity to limit whatever video they are watching and watch it while utilizing another application.

Audio improvements:

With Android O, Google is introducing several new features aimed at audiophiles. Android O brings with it support for high-quality audio codecs such as LDAC.

Additionally, Google is also introducing AAudio — a new native API for applications needing support for high-performance, low-latency audio.

Adaptive Icons:

With the Google Pixel, Google introduced the Pixel launcher which brought with it a new deign language centered around circular icons.

Notifications can now be segmented into various different channels like sports news, text messages and so on and users can control each channel separately

Adaptive icons will be supported in the launcher, device settings, the app overview screen and shortcuts. Users can now create adaptive icons that the system displays in different shapes, based on a mask selected by the device.

Better keyboard navigation:

Google has introduced a new model for keyboard navigation in Android O. Specifically, Android O brings with it a better way to navigate around Android using the arrow and tab keys on the keyboard.

Wide-gamut color for apps:

With Android O, developers can build applications for devices that support wide-gamut color displays.

Developers simply need to enable a setting which lets the system know that the application is wide-gamut color aware and then embed a profile for the same.

Support for third-party calling apps:

Google has introduced a new feature called ‘Telecom framework’, which allows for third-party calling applications to work with each other and with carriers.

App optimisations and WebView enhancements:

In Android O, the company is enabling the multi-process mode by default and is also introducing a new API that let developers handle their own errors and crashes in WebView.

Android O also brings with it optimisations for new runtimes for better stability and performance in applications designed specifically for Android O.

The Android O Developer Preview is available for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Pixel, Pixel XL and Pixel C devices.

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