The final version of the new major version of Android, which has been developed with the code name "Android P", has been released.The official name is "Android 9 Pie".On August 6 (US time), we started providing OTA (OVER-THE-AIR) updates to the Google smartphone "Pixel" series, and released the source code to Android Open Source PROJECT (AOSP).Devices supported by Android Pobeta programs, such as Sony Xperia XZ2 and Essential Phone, will be updated by the end of autumn.
Android 9 Pie is an update for the 10th anniversary of Android, evolving Android devices into a more useful and useful device.Many new features and new APIs have been added, focusing on new system navigation, personalized user experience, and digital welbying.
The new navigation is designed so that it can be operated smoothly with swipe and tap gestures, which allows three buttons of Android (return button, home button, multitask button) into one home button.However, the conventional navigation is not completely abolished, and when the Pixel smartphone is updated, the conventional navigation is defaulted and the user turns on the new gesture navigation in system settings.
AI utilization includes "Adaptive Battery" and "Adaptive Brightness" developed in a partnership with Deepmind, a subsidiary of the same Alphabet.Optimize the apps and services that users often use and use them comfortably to reduce the overall power consumption.In addition, you will learn how much screen brightness the user needs to the surrounding brightness, and achieve optimal automatic brightness adjustment for each user.
In addition, the "App Actions" that actively proposes the functions of apps that are likely to be needed by users (eg, suggested route guide to the workplace on Google Maps during commuting time), and can receive proposal functions from Google search.You can use slices "(for example, proposal of services that are usually used in Lyft when searching for" Lyft ").SLICES is not yet the final version, but is planning to roll out in autumn.
Digital wellbying is a function to prevent long -term use of smart devices."Dashboard" that summarizes the frequency of use of smartphones, "App Timer", which allows you to set your daily use time, and switches to DO NOT DISTURB mode in the set bed time to gray mode.There is a function such as.The digital welbying is not the final edition yet, but will be provided to Pixel devices in the fall, for Android One and other devices this year.
