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| android O |
Google revealed more details at last developers conference about upcoming versions of android. Though the official release is not out yet but here are a few eavesdrops.
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| broken emoji |
1. Broken emoji is gone
Android O will help ensure you never miss out on the latest releases. A new feature for developers lets them integrate a new emoji library that automatically fills in missing emoji even if you don't have it available on your keyboard yet.
2. Smart Sharing
Android O has the ability to understand what you have in your photos and recommend specific apps and actions based on what is in it the composition and your prior behavior. "If a user takes a photo of a receipt, Android O can suggest an expense-tracking app; if the user takes a selfie, a social media app can better handle the image," Google says.
This also applicable to videos, URLs, text, and other types of content — your phone can learn what you typically do with different types of content to improve its recommendations.
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| Cleaner Icon |
3. Cleaner Icons
Android developers will be able to create an array of icons to match the styles for different devices. This implies that if you use a phone that defaults to round app icons, apps that have typically used square icons now have the ability to use round ones instead.
4. Notification Snoozing
Android O places a lot of emphasis on improving notifications. One notable tweak will be the ability to snooze a notification for later.
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5. Badge Notifications
One of the most significant changes to notifications is the addition of badge notifications — small dots that appear over an app icon to indicate a new notification from that app. Furthermore, you can long press on an app to check its notifications.
6. Background colors for notifications
Another little but notable method Google applies to redesigning the look and feel of notifications: Developers will have the ability to enable background colors for notifications from their app.
Hope you are not expecting your notifications tray to look extra colorful — Google recommends developers "only use this feature in notifications for ongoing tasks which are critical for a user to see at a glance," like navigation or phone calls.
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7. Notification Channels
Apart from just changing the look and feel of notifications, Android O is now letting users have much more fine-tuned control over which notifications they see in the first place with something called notification channels. Notification channels let you decide which types of notifications you want to see from your apps.
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| TV Launcher |
8. New Android TV Launcher
In addition to getting new superpowers thanks to Google Assistant, Android TV is also getting a redesigned launcher menu that emphasizes content discovery.
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9. New animation styles
Android O is adding support for a new animation style called physics-based animation. "Physics-based animation relies on the laws of physics to manifest a high degree of realism in animation. In our day-to-day life, when a change occurs, it comes with a physical transition that is natural for us to recognize. "
This will manifest in a few different styles of animations, but one is a new type called "fling animation," which helps you slow down motion at the end of a graphic.
10. Picture-in-picture
Android O is getting support for picture-in-picture that works with any app, not just YouTube. It will take some time before more developers start adopting the feature, which is pretty buggy in the current developer preview, but PiP will definitely level up your multitasking.
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