Android O: Here are top features you should be happy about Preview 1


Google has just released a developer preview of Android O. We still don’t know what the O stands for, but have a good idea of what are the features being pushed via the new operating system. Dave Burke, Google’s VP of Engineering, says it is still early days and there is still plenty of performance and stabilisation work that needs to be done on the OS.

Lets take a look at the top seven features that one can look forward to in the upcoming Android O :

  1. Battery-life: Google like always, has put in extra effect into improving the battery life through Android O. The new system automatically limits background app activity to help conserve power.
  2. Notification: Android users can now have a tidier set of notifications by sorting them into "channels"
  3. Multi-display support: Users will now be able to watch a video while looking at another app. In other words, the new Android OS provides users with the ability to launch an activity using its latest multi-display support.
  4. Adaptive Icons: Android O introduces adaptive launcher icons, which can display a variety of shapes across different device models. for example, a launcher icon can display using a circular shape on one OEM device, provides a mask, which the system then uses to render all icons with the same shape. The new launcher icons are also used in shortcuts, the settings app, sharing dialog's, and the overview screen.
  5. Media Player: In Android O, Media-player includes new methods implementing these new feature. The ability to improve performance by controlling buffering behaviour, fine-grained control when seeking to a frame, the ability to playback "DRM-protected material". Apart from that, listening to music through wireless headphones with the new audio API is the kind of experience that receive's a significant boost with the latest update.
  6. Wide-gamut colour for apps: Android developers of imagining apps can now take advantage of new devices that have a wide-gamut colour capable display. To display wide-gamut images, apps will need to enable a flag in their manifest (per activity) and load bitmaps with an embedded wide colour profile. 
  7. Keyboard navigation: With the advent of Google Play Apps on Chrome OS and other large form factors, we're seeing a resurgence of keyboard navigation use within the apps. In Android O, the company focused on building a more reliable, predictable model for"arrow" and "tab" navigation that aids both developers and end users.  

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