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Notable features on Android O

Posted on: 27/May/2017 6:03:00 PM
Google has now come up with features and details of Android O recently at the I/O developers.

Though the official release is not too close, we currently have a lot of details about the forthcoming update. The new changes initially look very subtle. However, there are a number of changes to look forward to:

Broken emoji - bye, bye
With Android O, you will never miss out on any emoji. According to the new feature for developers, you can integrate new emoji library that will automatically get filled at missing emojis places in spite of not having it filled in your keyboard.

Smart sharing
The Android O version can easily understand the photos on your phone and suggest mobile apps depending on its composition. Google states that when the user captures a receipt, Android O will recommend apps related to expense tracking and if the user takes a selfie, the android would suggest social media apps that can handle the images in better ways.

The same is also applicable to videos, URLs, text content and others. Your handset will eventually learn what should typically be done based on the content.

Better icons
The icons are now getting better to comply with the devices style. When the phone has default rounded app icons, you can use it in the same way rather than the typical square shaped ones.

Snoozing notification
A lot of importance is given for notifications. A notable improvement is that enabling snoozing a notification for later is now possible.

Badge notification
Badge notification is one other significant changes in notifications. A tiny dot will appear over the icon of the app to indicate that there is a new notification pertaining to the particular app. In addition, you can long press the app for viewing the respective notification.

Notification background color
The look and feel of notification is also getting altered. Background color for the notifications are enabled for apps. However, the notifications are not going to be very colorful. Only for ongoing tasks where it is critical for the user to take a g lance, this color notification option will be enabled.

Channels for notification
Apart from the look and feel of notification, there is going to be even more fine-grained control to these notifications on Android O according to which there will be notification channel where users can view notifications. You can select the type of notification you wish to take a look at on top.

Android TV launcher
Apart from all these, there is Google Assistant for giving a redesigned launcher for Android TV where there is emphasis on content discovery.

Animation styles
This is another subtle feature added. Physics-based animation which is a newer kind of animation is added to Android O. This animation style depends on physics law for achieving increased levels of realism in animation. At times of day to day life changes, there are physical transition which is natural to recognize.

Picture-in-picture
The picture-in-picture support is getting enabled on Android O. This is functional with any app and not just YouTube.