Android O: All the new features

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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-O-All-the-new-features_id92262

Android O is, sort of, here.

Google just unveiled a Developer Preview of the next version of Android, which is non-ambiguously called "Android O" and gives little to no hints (that we know of) for its future sweet name.

Back on Android O: this one seems more like an evolutionary update than a revolutionary one, and that's a good thing. Most of the fresh new features on board look like they will further evolve the user experience and make it better across all areas.
[doublepost=1490125138][/doublepost]Android O developer preview will include 4 releases, final version coming in Q3 2017
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...lude-4-releases-final-release-coming-q3-2017/


Android O feature spotlight: Home screen notification badges are now supported
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...ome-screen-notification-badges-now-supported/

Android O feature spotlight: System UI Tuner gets a new navigation bar customizer
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...-ui-tuner-gets-new-navigation-bar-customizer/

Android O Developer Preview Feature Spotlight: New background limits help save battery life
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...new-background-limits-help-save-battery-life/
 
This actually strikes me as a fairly tepid (if welcome) so far, but this is a first preview release. I remember that Google didn't show all its cards with Nougat at first.
 
Home screen notification badges? Haven't TouchWiz and Nova Launcher + TeslaUnread been doing that for YEARS already? I wasn't even aware it was missing in base AOSP for this long.

This, on the other hand, is long overdue given all the OLED screens on smartphones:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...-gamut-profiles-in-apps-for-capable-displays/

Android direly needs some proper color space awareness so things don't look oversaturated when they shouldn't be.
 
Bleh, nothing for me to care about, it's Android as usual.
 
Vermillion said:
No apps support it yet so there are none to show.
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Tons of apps support it if you have a launcher that uses them, been available for years. Standard Android didn't have them.

I have them on mine. To give an example, it's the little bubble that appears in the corner of an app icon to show information (e.g. unreal email count, text message count, missed phone call count).


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What this change is that it'll become a system level thing for app developers to more readily utilize versus a Launcher based thing that app developers had to develop for.
 
Spidey329 said:
Tons of apps support it if you have a launcher that uses them, been available for years. Standard Android didn't have them.

I have them on mine. To give an example, it's the little bubble that appears in the corner of an app icon to show information (e.g. unreal email count, text message count, missed phone call count).


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What this change is that it'll become a system level thing for app developers to more readily utilize versus a Launcher based thing that app developers had to develop for.
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No apps support the Android O way.

I know that 3rd party apps have done it (very hacky and privacy invading ways I might add). He was asking for examples of how it looks on Android O not how something like Action Launcher does it now.
 
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