As we have already covered the features of new Android P, the next version of Google’s OS in our previous article and the released features are more or less the same.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the most important announcements made at Google I/O 2018 keynote presentation, and Google Assistant is ready to play an even more central role in Google’s ecosystem than it already has over the past few years. Apart from this, Google also unveiled newly updated version of Android P, which is available to developers (and anyone else who wants to install it on his or her Pixel phone).

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At the event, the search giant launched many features across products including Google Compose, which helps in writing emails faster, new Google News app with AI, Android P and more.

With the Android P Beta, Google aims to make Android smarter and easier to use than ever. Android P has machine learning at its core and will help the smartphone learn and adapt as per the usage.

Android P Updates

1. Google has partnered with Deep Mind, the world leader in artificial intelligence, to build Adaptive Battery for Android P.
2. The new App Actions feature – to help the user to get to the next tasks by quickly predicting what they might want to do next. Actions will show up in different places such as the Launcher, Smart Text Selection, the Play Store, the Google Search app and the Assistant. For instance, just as the user connects the headphone jack, the phone will perform an action to resume playing the favorite playlist
3. Slices – available only through Google Search. This feature will show results in slightly larger interactive snippets
4. Look and feel by introducing a new navigation system
5. New and improved Dashboard – shows how the user is spending time on the device including time spent in apps, number of times the phone has been unlocked and more
6. App Timer allows user to set time limits on apps
7. New Do Not Disturb mode that not only silences the phone calls and notifications, but also all the visual interruptions that pop up on your screen
8. ML Kit – a new set of cross-platform APIs available through Firebase which offers developers on-device APIs for text recognition, face detection, image labeling and more
9. A nutrition tracker –  can easily deploy our text recognition model to scan nutritional information and ML Kit’s custom model APIs to automatically classify over 200 different foods with your phone’s camera

The Android P Beta is available in Google Pixel devices, and will be available on a select few partner devices including

• Pixel 2 / Pixel 2 XL
• Pixel / Pixel XL
• Essential Phone PH1
• Sony Xperia XZ2
• OnePlus 6 (coming soon)
• Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S
• Nokia 7 Plus
• Oppo R15 Pro
• Vivo X21

How to install Android P Beta on your smartphones?

1. Go to android.com/beta
2. Sign up for Android P (users need to sign up with the same Google account  that they have signed in on their smartphone)
3. Accept Android Beta Program Terms of Service and share the feedback about Android P with the company from your device and by joining the Android Beta Program Google+ community
4. After you register, you’ll get a notification on your device about a system update being available. That’s Android P

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Android P Next Version Of Google OS – Find Out Top Biggest Features And Redesigns; Google has released the preview of the next version Android P. The new OS version is out in the form of Developer Preview 1 and is likely to get an official introduction in May during Google’s annual developer conference I/O 2018.

Although all the features of Android P are not revealed, yet some of the biggest changes are sought in the developer preview released-

Android P Features

1. Security enhancements

Android P introduces a number of new security features including a unified fingerprint authentication dialog and high-assurance user confirmation of sensitive transactions.

2. New image compression technology

Android P adds built-in support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) VP9 Profile 2, so you can now deliver HDR-enabled movies to your users from YouTube, Play Movies, and other sources on HDR-capable devices. Android P adds support for HEIF (heic) images encoding to the platform. HEIF improves compression to save on storage and network data thus it’s easy to send and utilize HEIF images from your backend server.

3. Multi-camera support and camera updates

Android P user can access streams simultaneously from two or more physical cameras on devices. With this feature, users can see seamless zoom, bokeh, and stereo vision. Other improvements in camera include new Session parameters that help to reduce delays during initial capture, and Surface sharing that lets camera clients handle various use-cases without the need to stop and start camera streaming.

4. Display cutout support

Android P offers support for the latest edge-to-edge screens with display cutout for camera and speaker. The new feature lets you find out the location and shape of the non-functional areas where content shouldn’t be displayed.

5. Notifications

Android P introduces several enhancements to notifications, all of which are available to developers targeting Android P.

6. Indoor Positioning with New wi-fi protocol

Android P adds platform support for the IEEE 802.11mc Wi-Fi protocol—also known as Wi-Fi Round-Trip-Time (RTT)—to let you take advantage of indoor positioning in your apps. On Android P devices with hardware support, your apps can use the new RTT APIs to measure the distance to nearby RTT-capable Wi-Fi Access Points (APs). The device must have location enabled and Wi-Fi scanning turned on.

7. Enhanced messaging experience

User of Android P can add an action to reply to messages or enter other text directly from a notification. Android P enhances this feature with which Android P now displays images in Messaging Notifications on phones, Save replies as drafts, Identify if a conversation is a group conversation and can send smart replies.

Android P simplifies notification channel settings, users can now block entire groups of channels within the notification settings.

8. Client-side encryption of Android backups

Android P enables encryption of Android backups with a client-side secret. Because of this privacy measure, the device’s PIN, pattern, or password is required to restore data from the backups made by the user’s device.

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