The five best new features coming to smartphones and tablets with
Marshmallow.
Android 6.0 promises huge improvements where battery life is concerned.
Using a combination of hardware sensors and software tweaks, phones and tablets
running Marshmallow will know when they’ve been sitting idle for a period of
time, and they will disable some background processes and other battery-hungry
features while they’re not in use. You’ll still get notifications, but battery
life will be stretched out substantially by this new mobile application development . If your phone
is sitting idle on your desk next to your computer all day, there’s no reason
your battery should suffer like it does now.
It’s an awesome feature, and it pushes Google Now even further ahead of the
competition. Google Now is already one of the best things about but it’s
getting a huge shot of adrenaline in Android 6.0. Dubbed “Google Now on Tap,
the new feature adds information from third-party apps to the pool of data
Google Now will sift through and act upon.
Hold the home button while in any app and Google Now will analyse it instantly. Here’s an example of how it might be used: your friend texts you with “Hey let’s go to Dante’s Pizza tonight.” Holding the home button will trigger Google Now on Tap, which might show you the restaurant on a map, let you know what its hours are today, and link you to some reviews.
In earlier versions of Android, selecting text would open a series of
buttons at the top of the screen, and many people are still confused about what
each one does. In Android 6.0, selecting text or a photo will pop up a menu
directly above your selection with the words “cut,” “copy,” and “paste,” just
like IOS. This makes things much easier since your finger is obviously already
right there as you make your selection.
Currently, it’s all or nothing with app permissions until you install some
third-party tweaks on your Android device. In Marshmallow, however, you can
pick and choose which permissions each individual app gets. So, for example, if
you want to install Facebook but you never want the app to have access to your
camera or location, you can do that now.
The only bad news here is that killing individual app permissions in the early days of Android 6.0 will cause some problems. Developers have to update their apps in order to ensure that they keep functioning properly with certain permissions disabled, and that will probably take a while.
Switching to a new phone or restoring an existing phone that you wipe is a
huge pain with Android devices. Beginning with Marshmallow, however, that’s
going to change.
When an Android 6.0 device is idle and connected to Wi-Fi, it will automatically backup app data and settings to Google Drive behind the scenes. If you ever wipe your phone or switch to a new one, you’ll finally be able to quickly and easily restore all of your apps as they were previously.
·Doze
·Google Now on Tap
Hold the home button while in any app and Google Now will analyse it instantly. Here’s an example of how it might be used: your friend texts you with “Hey let’s go to Dante’s Pizza tonight.” Holding the home button will trigger Google Now on Tap, which might show you the restaurant on a map, let you know what its hours are today, and link you to some reviews.
· Cut, Copy, Paste
· New App Permission Structure
The only bad news here is that killing individual app permissions in the early days of Android 6.0 will cause some problems. Developers have to update their apps in order to ensure that they keep functioning properly with certain permissions disabled, and that will probably take a while.
· App Backup and Restore
When an Android 6.0 device is idle and connected to Wi-Fi, it will automatically backup app data and settings to Google Drive behind the scenes. If you ever wipe your phone or switch to a new one, you’ll finally be able to quickly and easily restore all of your apps as they were previously.
