![]() What Android was missing for years! Android Marshmallow will allow automatic backups for apps and app settings (while connected to a Wi-Fi network) to your Google drive with up to a limit of 25MB per app. A report from 9 to 5 Google says that while testing the beta on the LG Nexus 5 from 2013, the OS enhanced its battery by threefold. If the device has been left without any activity for a while, it will then take the phone to a deep sleep mode, where it cuts down the background apps, makes the update checks less frequent, while still staying alert to calls, texts, and other important things. The feature uses significant motion detection to learn your phone usage pattern, when it is frequently, mildly and not used. The verge reports that the feature when tested in Nexus 9 tablet, nearly doubled the standby time. This feature helps improve the battery life of devices, resolving the unpredictable standby times on phones. For example, why should you allow a Picture editing app access your contact list? This setting can also be turned off in App settings. For example, suppose you are trying to send a Whatsapp voice message for the first time, the system will then prompt you, ‘Whatsapp is trying to access your microphone, allow?’ It would mean that you simply don’t have to grant permission to an app for an insensible request. This provides user complete control over the applications that they install and protects any privacy issue. Rather than asking permission to access a long list of ‘necessary/ unnecessary’ functions at a time, each app will now get individual permissions to the device functions it needs to work with. Android Marshmallow will have this question moved from here to when you open an installed app for the first time. “The App needs access to the following, Allow?” Every one of us, the Android users has seen this while installing applications from the Android Play store. You can also do a voice search, saying, “OK Google”. Or, if a friend asked you out for dinner in a text message, you can get restaurant suggestions right there. For instance, while watching a YouTube video, this feature lets you get more details about someone in this video, without leaving the app, by simply tapping and holding down the home button. So, regardless of what you are doing, you can use this Android assistant to get contextual information about whatever is running on the mobile screen. This feature simply extends the smart assistant, Google Now’s concept, across the entire OS. The following are the most significant changes we shall see in Android M: While Android’s previous version, the Lollipop, was a design centric update, Marshmallow is going to the basics with more focus on polishing the existing features, improving the core experiences and fixing the swarm of bugs in previous update. So, if you have a phone that currently runs Lollipop, chances are that you get Android M update by the start of 2016 and if not, the choice is yours: do you want a new phone or ignore this blog and count your chickens?Ībout its final update, Google says, ‘ this final API update is fairly incremental compared to previous developer preview version’. As of September 7, 2015, only 21% of android devices got the Lollipop update, where 39.2% were still using KitKat. ![]() Also, there are phones (like HTC One M8 eye,) on which there are no signs of even Android Lollipop update yet. PC advisor reports that the LG Nexus 5 and the Google Nexus 6 (hitting markets by November) will be the lucky ones to first experience the new OS update, in next few weeks.Īre you a Nexus user? If not, there is nothing much to get too excited about, because you may have to wait a little longer before manufacturers make Android Marshmallow available to other compatible phones, like Motorola, Sony, LG and Samsung, probably by early 2016. The developer preview is already available for devices like, the HTC Nexus 9, the LG Nexus 5, the Asus Nexus Player and the Motorola Nexus 6, which is a clear indication that the final update will also land on Nexus devices before any other OEMs. The Android 6.0 Marshmallow (Android M) first announced back in June, at the Google I/O 2015 conference is hatching out the egg in the fall.
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