You all have heard about Google’s new Android OS
version Android 8.0 OreoTM. It’s more than a Month from the release
date of Oreo and soon you will see your smartphone getting those updates. Therefore
in this post, we will look at some of
features and updates that we are getting.
Starting from my favorite
is a Picture-in-Picture
mode which allows you to run more than 1 app at a time. Like you can reply
to your WhatsApp messages while doing a video chat. I wish I could have
simultaneously opened my YouTube. Yes, we can do that too but, after upgrading
it to YouTube Red which is currently not available in India.
Another cool feature
is related to our Notification Centre. You can now group your apps notifications and
set them how you want them to disturb you. For eg. You can put YouTube’s
Notification on ping and WhatsApp Notification to Vibrant. Well, you can snooze
notification for some time. Another cool thing done with the notifications is Notification Badge. Now you will not see a dark red color circle
with the number displaying the number of Notifications. Instead, you will see a badge colored the same as that app. Just
tap on the badge and you will see the details of the notification. You can
swipe the details too. Notifications are synched between the dots and the
Notification shade, so tapping on one will clear the other.
The Next feature is Auto-fill. You have already dealt with this in your Chrome browser.
Now Google is bringing this feature to Mobile chrome. You will be asked to save
your details and so the next time you log in
to the App, you will be asked for the
Auto-fill. This includes your username, password, Debit card details, etc.
The next thing deals with your Smartphones Battery
Performance. Oreo keeps a track on all the apps running in the background.
It makes sure that apps don't drain your
battery by using unwanted resources. The System will also flash a badge that
lets you know something’s running in the background, like a tracker and so that
you can force stop it. Oreo also makes the Battery
Information page much Better. Like it will show which app has used how much
of the battery and when you have last fully charged your phone.
This next feature can put a smile on your face, Streamline SMS Authentication. Nowadays you don’t have to manually enter the
OTP to authenticate your Mobile number as the app does it by itself. But never
the less you get the message and it fills up your Inbox. So this new feature sents
a direct token to your app to authenticate the user. You will not receive any
SMS for sure.
The next thing deals with your Apps you install it
from Play store. This new update scans everything and makes sure that all your apps are safe. Google Play Protect will scan
50 billion Apps per days.
This Adaptive
Icons feature is for developers.
Developers can now provide an app into
any shape like square or circle and OEM’s will mask the icon into device compatible shape. Regarding the
shape of icons of the Apps, it will be a circle as you found it on Google pixel
smartphone.
Some of the additional feature of Oreo includes its 2x
faster Boot speed and faster launch of Apps. Re-enable the wi-fi, if you are
close to a wi-fi network. Authenticate your pattern or touch while opening
developer’s option and 60 new emojis.
Well, Nexus and Pixel phones have already got the
update and others like Samsung, Huawei
and OnePlus higher ends smartphones are likely to get the update this month.
These were the
updates that are coming up with Android Oreo. I hope you enjoyed reading this.
Finally, Thank you.
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