another year another new Android release and boy does time ever fly it seems
we've worked our way all the way down to q the 17th letter of the alphabet and
the first one that i can't think of a single dessert name for so if you guys
come up with something post it down in the comments please for now the official
name of the new mobile os from google will remain a mystery regardless of how
sweet sounding it ends up being though there should be a boatload of new
features to enjoy once it actually starts getting pushed out to our phones
so let's have a look at some of the highlights grabbing and sharing a screenshot has
been easy for years but it's been a lot trickier to actually record what's
happening on your screen if you need to send a video of something funny or
instructional now apple has supported screen recording
natively since iOS 11 but on Android
we've had to rely on third-party apps well no more Android q will feature a
native option to capture your display now it's unclear whether you might have
to go into the developer options to enable it or not but either way it
should be a very useful feature another very overdue change is the
ability to alter accent colors now i personally don't think there's
anything displeasing about the default blue but Android q will let you change
key ui elements to black green and purple in the beta and there might be
more colors on the way also if you don't like the new school circular icons for
apps and whatnot you can switch them back to rounded squares or even
teardrops if that tickles your fancy speaking of fancy if you've ever wanted
to use certain Android services on your desktop because you strongly prefer a
keyboard to mashing your sausage-like fingers against a little tiny screen
Android q is going to make that a bit easier by providing a desktop mode
natively so if you connect your phone to a monitor you'll get an interface that's
much more mouse and keyboard friendly so that you can finally use chat snap
without tons of spelling errors or at least without the unintentional
ones perhaps the most useful feature though
will be how Android q lets you share your wi-fi connection quickly and easily
i'm sure many of you are familiar with the hassle of having a friend over and
they ask for your wi-fi password and you don't remember because it's been 18
months since you typed in your own bloody Wi-Fi password and then you gotta
go find that convoluted string of characters and they're gonna check back
well that sucks but Android q can just display a special
qr code that another phone can scan to
instantly connect to the same wi-fi network no messy passwords required if
you're one of those people who doesn't think wi-fi passwords are that complicated and your concerns are more
with the camera though you might like this one Android q is going to have
built-in support for a picture format called dynamic depth which will map out
what it believes is the proper depth information for whatever the camera sees
so that apps can produce more and better bokeh effects as well as even 3d images
on supported hardware finally if you're extra exclusive and you have a foldable
phone Android q will provide better native support for these devices
including allowing two apps to run side
by side when the phone is unfolded with instant switching when you fold it back
up and of course there are a host of smaller extras too if you slide down the
notification tray you'll see that the battery indicator will give you an
estimated time when your battery will die so you won't have to just rely on a
percentage privacy gets an overhaul with Android q
allowing you to specify exactly when apps can use information instead of
constantly sharing data like your location in the background and they've
added easier access to relevant settings without having to leave the app that
you're using so in summary q is shaping up to be a nice little update to make
your device quite a bit more interesting which is all the more reason that i hope
it doesn't end up standing for quiche
i mean i like a good quiche but it ain't dessert
speaking of dessert the dessert for this wonderful meal of tech wiki is this
message from squarespace squarespace's all in one platform lets you create a
beautiful website with a powerful online identity in just no time at all
squarespace provides award-winning 24 7 customer support via live chat and email
and you can also attend a live webinar or check out their help guides you can
transfer your third-party domains to squarespace so instead of working with
multiple vendors to maintain your online presence you can manage all your domain
and billing settings right with squarespace and it has never been easier
to sell products or services online squarespace allows you to easily manage
your products orders and inventory so
head to squarespace.com forward slash Techquickie and use code techwiki to
get 10 off your first purchase why wait everybody's got a website
like my dog has a website just kidding i don't have a dog but if i
did he or she would have a website
so thanks for watching guys like dislike check out our other videos and leave a
comment if you have a suggestion for a future fast as possible don't forget to
subscribe and follow as well because if you do ants will get you
what ants if you do if oh crap