Yes, the adjacent version of sugary snack-themed Android as well as the successor to Android Nougat volition directly endure known every bit Android Oreo, the fellowship revealed on Monday.
Google has maintained the tradition of naming its Android operating organisation past times the names of alphabetically-ordered sugary delights commencement amongst Android Cupcake as well as followed past times Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow as well as Nougat.
The novel updated mobile operating system, which has been available for the final few months inwards developer beta, volition acquire far on your Android devices past times the halt of this year.
Here's the listing of features what I similar inwards the novel Android Oreo hence far:
1. No More 'Install From Unknown Sources' Setting
Not all applications installed from third-party sources are malicious, but most of the apps installed from exterior of the official Play Store could nation yous inwards trouble.
Prior to Android Oreo, third-party app installation requires users to enable exactly 1 setting past times turning on "Install from unknown sources"—doesn't affair from where the user has downloaded an APK file, i.e. from a browser, Bluetooth, transferred from a estimator via USB or downloaded using some other app.
Android 8.0 Oreo has completely changed the means this characteristic works, bringing a much smarter as well as safer organisation called "Install other apps," inwards which user has to manually permit 3rd-party app installation from unlike sources.
2. Autofill API Framework
It has already been advised to brand purpose of complex as well as unlike passwords for online accounts as well as alter them frequently, but this makes it hard for users to shout out back them at the same time.
To follow the best password policy inwards guild to maintain their accounts safe, most users rely on notepad/excel files to relieve their passwords insecurely, spell some purpose password managers.
Some password managing director apps for Android allow their users to Autofill saved information into forms on other apps for which they require access to device's accessibility permission as well as features.
However, amongst Android Oreo, password managers volition no longer require Android's accessibility features to fill upwards inwards forms.
Android 8.0 Oreo brings a built-in secure AutoFill API that allows users-chosen password managing director to shop unlike types of sensitive data, such every bit passwords, credit carte numbers, telephone numbers, as well as addresses—and plant throughout the entire system.
3. Picture-in-Picture
How many times does it spill out to yous when yous desire to spotter a video on YouTube spell chatting on WhatsApp?
It happens amongst me a lot of times, as well as I actually acquire annoyed that if I'm watching a video, I tin exclusively spotter that video as well as can’t exercise anything on other apps simultaneously. But this would non endure a work inwards Android 8.0 Oreo.
With Android Oreo, yous tin sentiment a YouTube video spell reading through a study inwards Word or endure chatting on WhatsApp on your Android device—thanks to Picture-in-Picture (PIP) feature.
PIP is 1 of the biggest features inwards the latest version of Android. If yous opened upwards an app as well as start playing a video, exactly press the dwelling button, which volition shrink the video downwards to the bottom-right corner of your covert spell the remainder of the app disappears.
Now yous tin opened upwards whatever app as well as exercise other activities, spell the video continues inwards the background. You tin fifty-fifty movement the video along the edge of your screen, exactly similar the Facebook Messenger icons, as well as tapping on the video volition expand the video dorsum into full-view.
4. Google Play Protect
Android Oreo has been developed keeping 'Security' inwards mind, amongst Google keen downwards on the fastest-growing work of Android malware amongst a novel anti-malware tool called Google Play Protect.
"Play Protect is built into every device amongst Google Play, is ever updating, as well as automatically takes activeness to maintain your information as well as device safe, hence yous don't direct hold to elevator a finger," Dave Burke, Vice President of technology scientific discipline at Google said.Play Protect helps inwards detecting as well as removing harmful applications amongst to a greater extent than than 50 billion apps scanned every day.
5. Wi-Fi Aware (Neighborhood Aware Networking — NAN)
Wi-Fi Aware is basically a combination of WiFi Direct as well as Nearby features to offering to a greater extent than reliable connecter compared to Wi-Fi P2P, allowing users to percentage information at high speed amongst a longer distance communication compared to Bluetooth.
Wi-Fi Aware API gives app developers a great chance to create awesome apps based on the communication betwixt nearby devices.
6. Android Instant Apps
With Android 8.0 Oreo, yous tin directly access a attain of Instant Apps without downloading them.
First unveiled inwards May 2016, a novel characteristic called Android Instant Apps is directly available for to a greater extent than than 500 1000000 devices globally, allowing users to launch for sure apps within Google Play without having to download them.
Users tin access Android Instant apps amongst a unmarried click on a URL, exactly similar a spider web page.
This characteristic could endure to a greater extent than useful for those who are running out of storage infinite on their phone, wants to purpose an app for exactly in 1 lawsuit or intends to accept a prove earlier installing the total version.
7. Battery-Saving Background Limits
Prior to Android 8.0 Oreo, developers tin prepare apps that could remove heed for a wide attain of organisation broadcasts or changes on an Android device such every bit Wi-Fi turning on or a pic beingness taken, which negatively impact organisation functioning as well as battery life.
Now, amongst Android Oreo, Google has blocked apps from reacting to "implicit broadcasts" as well as carrying out for sure tasks when they are running inwards the background inwards an attempt to heighten the battery life of Android device.
Besides this, Android Oreo volition also limit some background services as well as place updates when an app is non inwards use.
For example, if music app is playing music inwards the background, it volition non endure affected, but it volition limit Instagram that doesn't demand to endure refreshing your feed from running inwards the background, allowing apps to purpose less mightiness as well as wake upwards occasionally to start its services.
8. AI-based Smart Text Selection
Android Oreo brings the 'Smart Text Selection' feature, which uses Google's machine learning to discovery when something similar physical addresses, e-mail addresses, names or telephone numbers is selected, hence automatically suggests the relevant information on other apps.
For example, if double tap text as well as select an address of a eating theatre your friend sends you, Google's AI-based machine learning volition figure out what yous desire as well as automatically launch directions amongst maps.
The Assistant characteristic tin perform the same, but it's ever expert to direct hold multiple options to solve the same problem.
9. Notification Dots (Limit notifications)
This characteristic is something I needed badly, every bit I actually acquire annoyed past times hence many notifications I wear a daily basis.
With Android Oreo, this won't endure an issue. Oreo introduces Notification Dots that offers yous to acquire by each app individually amongst "fine-grained control," allowing yous to command how many notifications yous encounter as well as how they come upwards through.
For example, inwards instance of whatever intelligence app, yous volition endure able to select what areas yous are interested inwards hearing about.
So, to cheque your notifications, yous merely demand to tap the 3 notification dots.
10. Find my Device
Google has introduced a novel feature, called Find my Device, which is a similar characteristic to Apple's Find my iPhone as well as allows people to locate, lock as well as wipe their Android devices inwards the termination when they acquire missing or acquire stolen.
11. New Emoji as well as Downloadable Fonts
Android Oreo introduces lx novel emoji as well as a redesign of the electrical flow "blob" characters. The update also offers novel colour back upwards to app developers as well as the mightiness to alter or animate the shape of icons inwards their apps.
The "Downloadable Fonts" characteristic inwards Android Oreo is non for the halt user, as well as instead, this characteristic is meant for app developers, allowing them to unloose their apps without packaging fonts inside. The fonts tin hence endure downloaded past times the app from a shared provider as well as back upwards library.
This same implementation also supports "Downloadable Emoji," hence users tin acquire updated emoji without exactly beingness express to the emoji built into the device.
