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Apr 10, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Background Limits Will Lead to Improved Battery Life and Performance

Since the release of Android Lollipop, Google has been relentlessly working on improving the efficiency, performance, and battery life management of Android. With Marshmallow, the company introduced Doze and with Nougat, it introduced an even

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Apr 9, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Custom Ringtones and Notification Tones Can Now Be Easily Set

For an OS meant for smartphones and smart devices, Android can surprisingly fail at some very basic tasks. This includes the ability to set a custom ringtone or notification sound which is unnecessarily complex in

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Apr 8, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Picture-in-Picture Finally Comes to Phones and Tablets

Google first debuted Picture-in-picture support in Android with Nougat last year itself. Back then, however, the feature was limited to Android TVs only. With Android O, Picture-in-picture will be available for

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Apr 7, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Notification Badges

Taking a cue from iOS, Google is introducing native support for notification badges in Android O. While many Android launchers have been able to replicate this functionality for quite a while now, it was wonky

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Apr 6, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Wi-Fi Automatically Enables Itself When Near a Saved Network

With Android O, Google will make it easier for your device to automatically connect to known Wi-Fi networks. A new feature in Android O, currently hidden and disabled in the developer preview, will automatically

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Apr 5, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Quick Settings Now Act as Toggles

In Android Nougat, Google gave the Quick Settings a major overhaul both in terms of their look and functionality. With Android O, Google is once again tweaking how Quick Settings tiles work. While the Quick

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Apr 4, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Autofill API

This is not a feature per se but a new Autofill API introduced by Google in Android O will allow password managers to work more elegantly in the OS. Using the API, password managers will

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Apr 3, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: You Can Now Snooze Notifications

Google completely revamped the notification settings in Nougat, and with Android O, it is further tweaking things for a better user experience. Aside from Notification channels, Google has also introduced the ability to snooze notification

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Apr 2, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: Custom Lock Screen Shortcuts

Since Marshmallow, Google has used the hidden System UI Tuner menu to hide useful customisation options in the OS. The first Developer Preview of Android O is no different and hides some interesting customisation options

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Apr 1, 2017

Android O Feature Highlight: High-Quality Bluetooth Audio Streaming

Audio has always been one of Android's key weakness. After years of work, Google has finally gotten around to get the audio latency to respectable levels in Nougat. With Android O, the company has

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Mar 26, 2017

Android O Features: All the New and Hidden Features We’ve Found So Far

Earlier this week, Google surprised everyone by releasing the first Developer Preview of Android O. Unlike Nougat, Android O is not as feature packed as Android Nougat. Instead, it comes with plenty of minor enhancements

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Mar 26, 2017

Android O Gallery: A Visual Glimpse of the New Features

At first glance, it might look like that Android O is not packed with as many new features as Nougat was. While the OS surely lacks as many headlining new features as Nougat, it still

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Mar 25, 2017

Here’s How 1Password for Android Will Work on Android O With The New Autofill API

Autofill API is among the major new API being introduced by Google in Android O. As the name suggests, the API will allow password managers and similar apps to easily fill login information in other

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Mar 22, 2017

Final Android O Build To Release in Q3, 2017; Next Developer Preview Build To Release in May

Yesterday, Google dropped the first Developer Preview of Android O. The latest version of Android comes with little user-facing changes, with most of the improvements being related to improving the overall experience of using

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Mar 21, 2017

Google Releases First Android O Developer Preview For Nexus and Pixel Devices

Along with announcing Android O, Google also dropped the first Developer Preview of the OS for compatible Nexus and Pixel devices. Google is not making the first Developer Preview of Android O available to consumers

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Mar 21, 2017

Google Announces Android O With Notification Channels, Background limits, Autofill APIs, More

Google today announced Android O, the next major version of Android and successor to Nougat. The new version of Android does not come with the sheer number of features that debuted with Nougat, but we