Android 8.0 Oreo as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos it doesn't
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get much better than dunking an Oreo into milk it just adds a little
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something extra namely milk so maybe
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that's why Google went with the name Android Oreo for the eighth version of
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its mobile OS that it's rolling out dunking your smartphone into some
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exciting new features so then let's pull
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the newest version of Android apart and have a taste of what's inside I'll stop
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that now starting out is the significantly revamped notification
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system which you can now organize into channels the basic idea here is to group
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notifications by category and customize
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how your phone gets your attention on a per category basis for example if you're
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using a messaging app like Google Hangouts you can choose to only show
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some chatter from an unimportant group silently while telling your phone to
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vibrate light up and even override do not disturb when you get an angry ping
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from your boss asking where that next Techquickie script is and while we're
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on the subject of notifications Oreo offers iOS style notification badges
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that appear on app icons if they want
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your attention although you won't get a number showing how many notifications
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you have they will be drawn in different colors to match the app icon instead of
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that jarring lurid red that you always get on the iPhone here's another one if
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you've been using a Google pixel you've probably noticed how it uses round icons
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as opposed to the variety of shapes you might see on other Android devices with
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Oreo app developers can now create adaptive icons that your device will
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automatically adjust into a circle square or rounded circular square
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looking thing depending on your system settings another big visual change is
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picture-in-picture that's right the feature that was once a huge selling
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point for sports fans looking to invest big-screen TV for the living room is now
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coming to your pocket the goal
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is to enable users to carry on let's say
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a voice chat for example while looking up something pertinent in the background
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sadly but maybe unsurprisingly though you'll need to shellow for YouTube read
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if you want to watch youtube videos with the feature but the changes to Oreo
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aren't all visual one of the most
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notable under the hood improvements is to battery life management Google is
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promising again but no really it's a lot
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better this time but although the effectiveness of these power
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improvements remains to be seen one thing we are sure of is Oreos ability to
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automatically re-enable your Wi-Fi if you're close to an own network keeping
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you from burning through your data if you turned it off to avoid stupid
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pop-ups about joining cat lady house Wi-Fi when you were out and about last
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but not least if you're an instant messaging aficionado Android stock
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emojis don't look like weird blobs anymore so there's that though at the
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same time Google also apparently decided to use a blob like octopus as a version
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mascot anyway Android Oreo is available for
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these pixel and Nexus devices and non-google phones and tablets we'll be
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getting it in the coming months no word yet though on whether we'll be getting a
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double stuffed revision that has twice the features and twice the regret do you
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ever find yourself needing to control two computers at once well synergy is
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the solution for you it's a software tool that lets you use one keyboard and
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mouse with multiple computers and the craziest thing about it is that it even
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works across different operating systems including Windows macOS and Linux
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features include clipboard sharing and dragging and dropping files between the
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computers custom hotkeys and more it's
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available in both basic and pro versions with the latter including SSL encryption
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to secure the data sent between computers and synergy is offering a 50%
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