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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