Android Oreohas at last been amply bake , and given a name , and is now rolling out to those of you with a Pixel , Pixel XL , Nexus 5X , Nexus 6P , or Pixel C ; Google enjoin a caboodle of other handsets will get Oreo by the end of the year too . So what can you depend forward to ? Here are the novel tricks you ’ll be able to make for around with when your update go far .
1) Use picture-in-picture everywhere
The YouTube app for Android has been able to shrink video down into a little windowpane for some time , but now you could do it in any app , with any other app in the background — as long as app developers decide to corroborate it . It works in Chrome for Android already : Just make any telecasting full - screen , slay the Home clitoris , and hey presto you ’ve got a PIP window .
2) Turn on notification badges
Android drug user no longer need to look quite as enviously at their iPhone - total friend , because Oreo lets apps expose notification badges on their home screen icons too : From configurations tap Apps & apprisal then Notifications to find the toggle switch . The badge need to be enabled by developers too , so you might not see them in all apps direct aside .
3) Manage notification priorities
Android Oreo let you finagle notifications in more point using apprisal “ epithelial duct ” , so you may categorise the ones you want to see and the ones you do n’t , even within notifications from the same app — swipe right on a notice then tap the cog icon to see the pick , or dive into the options for a particular app to see what the options are .
For example , some of your group chats in a message app might have license to buzz and light up your phone , while others just display a dumb alert .
Again this is something developers need to enable on their side as well , so you wo n’t see it in every app straight away , and it ’s the app developers who set the different degree of class ( or channels ) .
4) Enjoy better security
Google Play Protect is being promoted alongside Android Oreo , though it ’s actually rolling out through Google Play Services to sometime devices too — drumhead to options , Google , then surety to see if you ’ve got it . The serve scan your incoming and installed apps for malware , sending you notifications if it spots anything suspicious or needs to take activity .
5) Snooze notifications until later
Another notification acclivity : you may snooze notice until you ’re quick to deal with them , rather than dismiss them once and never see them again . Swipe to the rightfield on an alert on the lock sieve or in the notice drawer , pink the clock icon , and edit out the time delay ( if needed ) . This work on all apps direct out of the box with Android Oreo .
6) Save even more battery life
Android has been getting good and intimately at circumscribe the setting bodily function of apps when you want to save battery life , and with the launch of Oreo it goes even further , with new rules on what apps can and ca n’t do in the background . A lot of this should happen behind the scenes , so all you will see ( in hypothesis ) is your barrage fire lasting for a long stretching .
7) Play around with new emoji
A new version of Android commonly stand for a bunch of young emojis , and Oreo is no dissimilar — in fact , Google has redesigned the entire emoji icon set this time around , so the blobs are out and more steady faces are in . young emojis include a thaumaturge , a dinosaur , a poove , and an exploding head for when you learn how long your Oreo update is stay for .
8) Select text more easily
Android Oreo can take text on screen with a spot more intelligence — if you beg and guard on a recognizable bit of text ( like a phone number ) , then Android can mechanically play up the whole lot for you . You also get linguistic context - sensitive shortcuts appearing in the legal profession above , so if you ’ve picked out an address , for example , one of the link leads toGoogle Maps .
9) Use new shortcuts in the camera
The photographic camera app bundled with Oreo has a couple of minor tweaks that might make a major remainder to your photo and video pickings in the hereafter . First , you could two-fold - tap on the covert to soar up in 50 percent ( and double - pat again to zoom along out ) ; secondly , you could interchange between photo and picture way by tapping on the icons rather than awkwardly cabbage , finally .
10) Sync all your data across all your devices
Chrome has synchronise datum across devices for a while now , but Android Oreo is expanding that with a new Autofill feature . With your permission , it allows the syncing of app logins , deferred payment placard details , destination and other information between devices and inside apps ( like your peregrine web browser)—LastPass is one of the first apps tosupport the Modern characteristic .
11) Play around with an octopus
No Android version would be utter without an Easter egg , though admittedly the one in Android Oreo is n’t the most impressive we ’ve ever seen . From configurations , water tap System then About headphone , then tip Android interpretation until you see the cock-a-hoop Android O. Then , tap the O repeatedly before long - pressing it to get an octopus that … just kind of float around a bit .
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