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So what's your favorite dessert that starts with the letter P?
Pecan pie?
Peppermint patty?
Pop tart?
Well, we don't know which one Google will pick for its newest mobile operating system
codenamed Android P, but we do know some of the features you'll be able to look forward
to once it hits the phone in your pocket, or the one you're looking to buy.
Let's start with one of the things you're likely to notice as soon as you pick up your
phone, notifications.
Android Oreo introduced the ability to reply to a message directly from its notification
instead of opening the app fully.
But P will take this one step further, showing images in line.
So if one of your friends is a narcissistic Instagrammer who keeps sending you photos
of his or her dinner, you can now feign excitement more quickly than ever.
And on the subject of images, you'll now, finally, also be able to draw and mark up
your screenshot.
If you want to call someone's attention to a certain part of the screencap.
And you also get an option to take one just by holding down the power button if you don't
like having to press down two buttons at once.
And certain apps can take better advantage of newer phones that have a dual camera setup,
enabling functionality like depth detection and more realistic AR experiences.
The visual related changes don't stop there either.
If you stumble upon text that's a little too small to read comfortably, there's now
an iOS-like lens zoom feature.
And there are a number of new features.
The new system animations and visual accents.
So you might notice a bit more color on items that could use it, like different sub-menus
in the settings app, but also a bit less in others.
Battery saver, for example, still shows an icon letting you know it's on, but it no
longer turns the top and bottom of your screen that distracting shade of red.
And Android P also features smarter adaptive brightness, now adjusting the backlight level
based on typical usage patterns, instead of relying solely on how dim your surroundings
are.
And speaking of battery saver, let's move on and talk a little bit more about what's
under the hood.
If you do like the power sipping mode, you can now configure it to kick in earlier if
your phone's battery isn't the greatest.
But you shouldn't be spending as much time waiting around for your battery draining tasks
to complete anyway, since the usual tweaks to the run time are present, with Google hoping
for fastest ever load times with minimal memory usage.
And while we're on the subject of making things quicker, let's talk about gestural navigation.
Gone is the triangle-circle-square paradigm that Android users have gotten used to.
Now Android P has a single home button that you can tap, hold, or swipe to bring up your
app drawer or recently used programs, similar to iOS, which Google was hoping will make
it easier for users to bring up frequently used or currently running apps.
And if you ever get curious just how long you use those apps for, Android P provides
a breakdown of app usage, and how many notifications each one sends you, allowing you to keep up
tabs on just how bad your addictions to Netflix and Snapchat really are.
Now onto something a little more exciting, Android P's indoor positioning feature.
This could come in handy the next time you're in a large indoor facility like a shopping
mall or an airport.
You see, the new Wi-Fi standard 802.11 MC will be able to measure the trip time of your
Wi-Fi signal to and from an access point, which lets it triangulate your position indoors.
It does require hardware support.
But with the right device, it could actually be used for a lot of other things.
So let's take a look.
And finally, we'd be a bit remiss if we didn't talk about a rather important security
tweak.
Android P no longer allows apps to access your camera or microphone in the background.
Now, although that's comforting news, it really makes me wonder what they may have
been watching or listening to up until now.
And it does nothing for the usual vast majority of Android users who will be left behind when
Android P rolls out sometime later this year.
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