Google unwraps the new opearting system "Android O"

Google has released the developer preview for the next version of its Operating System (OS), Android O,on march 21,2017 it's available for Nexus 5x,nexus 6P ,Nexus Player ,Pixel C and pixel smartphone devices. Which will eventually get a  theme named to follow Lollipop, marshmallow and Nougat.We can expect a better name would come for this new version.

 If you've only just gotten used to the taste of Nougat,Google has another variety of Android ready for you to sample, that is "Android O".

  

The new OS includes suite developement and a few large ones that will make life easier for Android users everywhere.However, there are various other features baked into Android O that fans will want to know about, including behind-the-scenes improvements and plenty of user-facing tweaks.

   

The most significant is a new approach to dealing with apps running in the background, which Google says should markedly improve the battery life of phones, tablets and other devices. Now, apps are automatically limited in what they can do when they’re running in the background, in three specific areas  background services, location updates and implicit broadcasts.

Those three areas are often at fault when it comes to battery draining apps, since they can result in a moderately large power draw on an ongoing basis. In the future, developers will be limited in how much they can do in the background. Location, for instance, will only be updated a few times each hour, while background services  programs which run continuously doing things like checking inboxes while the user is in another app will now be closed automatically after a short period.

If the changes sound familiar, it might be because they’re similar to how iOS handles background applications. The two operating systems have been converging on this ground from opposite ends since their inception. Android once had no limits at all on what apps could do in the background, while Apple once banned every single background process that it didn’t create.

Elsewhere, the new OS has some more obvious user facing updates. Most noticeably, a new notification system should come as welcome news to users who are used to getting a significant chunk of their daily information through app alerts.

Starting with O, Android developers can group their notifications into categories called “Channels”, allowing apps to offer more fine-grained control over how users receive their notifications. For instance, a news app might offer notifications for breaking news, and for replies to comments now, the user can explicitly tell Android to let the former play a sound, vibrate and show on the lockscreen, while quietly sliding the latter into the notification menu.

Smaller, but no less transformative, is the introduction of a “snooze” button to notifications.

 If you’re the sort who needs an empty inbox, but can’t deal with that one text quite yet, Android will now simply resend it a bit later. The new mobile OS also "adds platform support for autofill," which should simplify the process of using a password manager. This way, you'll be able to select an autofill app similar to the way you can select a keyboard app.

 

Android O will also include picture-in-picture display, so you can continue watching a video while answering a chat or doing something else. Also on tap is support for high-quality Bluetooth audio codecs such as Sony's LDAC codec and new Wi-Fi features like Wi-Fi Aware, which lets compatible devices more easily discover other gadgets, apps, and information nearby.

Google plans to release updated developer previews over the next several months. In the meantime, the web giant is looking for feedback on the new features as developers test their apps on the new OS.