android uh
quick uh quick quick bits
no nevermind that's stupid and apparently google agrees because as
of the latest release alphabetized dessert names are out and everyone's
favorite number is in android 10 seems to be a significant step for google's
mobile os in the same way that windows 10 was for microsoft a way to flesh out
refine and unite some of the disparate
ideas that have characterized the platform so far while giving themselves
more flexibility in the way that they provide future updates
so with the full fat version having finally rolled out to pixel devices oh
this is great the top news when i swipe over this way android 10 is a terrible
bug that can't be fixed uh and select other phones i guess that's why they
don't just send it out to everybody all at once there are loads of new features and ui
changes to checkout however as you and i are about to discover calling this the
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dark mode as we noted in our video back in january
android has had a pansy half-assed dark
theme for a while which darkened the notification shade and
some apps to a dark grey in android 10
that gets cranked up to 11 or
well 10 at least the background of the notification shade
and the settings app are now completely black which means that if you're using
an oled screen those pixels will be off for a clean look and some battery
savings and while other built-in apps like messages calendar clock chrome and
the google feed are still dark gray they actually respond properly to the system
level theme now which you can toggle directly from the quick settings menu
we're all huge fans of dark mode around here and while there is always room for
improvement we actually think they've done a pretty good job of it
next up is the new gesture controls
and they're from ios google says that they developed these
gestures based on research and
innovative android partners and i suppose that is possible but at
the end of the day android tens gestures do away with the
pill software home button and work just like the ones on apple's latest iphones
so you swipe up to go home swipe up and hold to access the app
switcher and slide along the bottom to cycle through your recent apps
in android pie a quick swipe on the bottom would switch between your two
most recent apps while swiping and holding would cycle through the rest
kind of like alt tab on the desktop but that is gone in android 10 in favor of
swiping individually now as for that staple of android the back button back
functionality is now handled by a swipe from either edge of your device so
self pause rejoice google says that in their tests users rated the new gestures
higher than the other navigation methods and were able to perform tasks
particularly one-handed tasks more quickly with most people reporting that
after a break-in period of one to three days they didn't want to switch back to
the three-button setup as for our pixel users here in the office
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beauty of android is its customizability so if the notion of having anything in
common with icky ios makes you uneasy or if you just plain don't like change
android 10 thankfully allows you to choose between the new gestures the
previous android pie gestures and even the og three button navigation bar
another really cool looking new feature is live caption which can automatically
generate subtitles for any audio or video playing on your device locally
with no cloud connection required unfortunately it's not available at
launch even though it's listed as a major feature in the launch video and
the android website and even shows up in the recommended search results in the
settings menu but then just clicking it does nothing
for now next up android 10 has upgraded digital
well-being so if you set an app timer the app switcher will tell you how much
time you have left on a given app family links controls that allow you to
set screen time limits view app activity manage content restrictions and see
where your family members are has gotten some upgrades and the new focus mode
allows you to select apps to turn off which hides their notifications
grays them out on the home screen and prevents you from opening them at all
all of this by tapping the button in quick settings android 10 also
introduces some cool new accessibility options
sound amplifier amplifies the sounds of the real world through your headphones
but the special thing here is that it's no longer an app but rather an integrated part of android and live
transcribe is basically a text to speech app that provides subtitles for real
life and certain bluetooth enabled hearing aids can now also be used to
play audio allowing them to double as wireless earbuds
that's pretty cool now our last big feature that we have to
mention is android 10's greatly expanded privacy controls it's obviously a huge
issue in 2019 particularly when it comes to google services so it makes sense
then that android now has a dedicated privacy section
in the settings menu one of the big things here is the
expanded app permissions options particularly for location access so now
you can choose whether an app tracks your location all the time
none of the time or only while you're using it this is a great way to avoid
worrying about whether that flashlight app you downloaded is logging your every
move there's also some consolidation that went on here so you've got things
like web plus app activity and ad personalization these just link directly
to your google account so it's nice to have all that stuff in one place all
right so here's the part where we acknowledge all
the other new features that we really have to mention but there isn't a ton of time to go deep
into so here we go in settings wi-fi networks
you're connected to will now have scannable qr codes and visible passwords
so that you can show them to others so they can instantly connect
it's a freaking life changer for me i love that
smart replies and notifications will now include contextual actions so there
might be an option to open maps when someone messages you an address
long pressing notifications will give you an option to set it to alerting or
silent silent notifications will then be separated when you drag from the top
music or video apps will have a timeline in their notification that you can scrub
through that's kind of nerdy and cool but
yeah highlighting text now has haptic feedback giving you little vibrations
hopefully good ones and when you're connected to bluetooth
audio devices you can switch between different outputs via the pop-up volume
menu freaking thank you
like that okay this has driven me absolutely nuts
at times because sometimes my car does this weird thing where it's like i
turned it off but like the door isn't open yet and it does it still grabs my
audio but the car stereo is off so it's
just going nowhere so having a manual switch that i can quickly access to flip
over to my handset would be great thanks
let's carry on holding the power button will bring up an extra emergency button
to make calls and edit your emergency medical information the battery
indicator will display the estimated time of depletion when you pull down the
notification shade the most recent notification gets a little bell on it so
you can know which one came in last but again
thank you that is so annoying when like okay i'll
get this thing from my garage door that goes hey i've been open for 10 minutes
sweet and my phone buzzes but that notification has no time stamp and
always seems to get buried under a bunch of other stuff and then i'm like i'm
just looking at this like why did my phone go off you can customize the system accent
color in the developer options now you can allow apps to use facebook messenger
style bubbles bluetooth devices will be more easily differentiated by colors and
the built-in android game is pick cross pie cross
pick cross this time neat so so far the story has been pretty
good but you could argue that each new
addition makes android 10's omissions more apparent
earlier versions of the android q beta had a built-in screen recorder something
that's been on ios for years but that has been removed from the public release
now leaks also pointed to a desktop mode in android q and it is actually
accessible in the developer options but uh it is
super bare bones and calling this a feature would be charitable at best and
to add insult to injury android beam is gone
it it's just gone now google is most likely to continue to
flesh out the screen recorder and the desktop mode so we'll probably see those
return in future updates which should be coming thanks to one more really cool
thing i want to talk about that they're calling project mainline basically
project mainline is a framework for rolling out
smaller more modular updates to android devices
through the play store rather than waiting around for device oems and
carriers like your samsungs and your att's of the world to
hand craft their own special version of
a security or feature patch and then give it to you
whenever as long as you happen to be in the correct country and have the correct
sim in your device haha so that sounds great
but it does have a small problem in order for project mainline to get into
full swing google's users need to get
out there and update to android 10.
so with android's track record on getting their users updated i figure
we're looking at uh
shoot where's my uh where's my phone can i get my phone back don't have a watch
i don't know let's say that 20 20 25 for
widespread adoption you know what i'm gonna set a reminder and i'll update you
guys on how that's going okay cool remind me in
2025 to check in on uh project mainline
reminders are currently not available for g suite users
oh right i can't do that uh so this has nothing
to do with android 10 but if there's anyone who works at google still
watching this video fix your sh um as a paying g suite customer i
actually paid quite a lot of money for all of our users i can't have basic
functionality like the ability to set reminders
randomly turning off maybe you can get someone from the hangouts team to swoop in and get that
sorted they certainly don't have anything to do these days
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