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Google Begins Rolling Out Android Pie To Select Handsets (venturebeat.com)
Google on Monday announced that the 'P' in Android P stands for Android Pie, succeeding Android Oreo. It also pushed the source code of the latest version to the Android Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The latest version of Google's mobile operating system, Android 9.0 Pie, is also starting to roll out today as an over-the-air update to Pixel phones, the company said. From a report: If you don't have a Pixel phone, you won't be getting Android Pie for a while (if at all). During the beta testing phase, Android P was made available on the Sony Xperia XZ2, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, Nokia 7 Plus, Oppo R15 Pro, Vivo X21, OnePlus 6, and Essential PH-1. [...] Google wants you to know that Android Pie includes a "heaping helping of artificial intelligence baked in to make your phone smarter, simpler, and more tailored to you."
Android Pie offers of a slew of new features including built-in support for display cutouts (read: notches), a tweaked Quick Settings panel, a notification drawer with rounded corners, messages in notifications when replying inline, smart replies in notifications, a consistent UI for fingerprint authentication, privacy enhancements to limit what apps can do in the background, Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness features (courtesy of Google DeepMind), App Actions for predicting what the user will do next, App Slices for surfacing an app's user interface inside the Google app's search results and inside Google Assistant, a BiometricPrompt API for a system-managed dialog to prompt the user for any supported type of biometric authentication, and multi-camera APIs that let you access streams simultaneously from two or more physical cameras.
Android Pie offers of a slew of new features including built-in support for display cutouts (read: notches), a tweaked Quick Settings panel, a notification drawer with rounded corners, messages in notifications when replying inline, smart replies in notifications, a consistent UI for fingerprint authentication, privacy enhancements to limit what apps can do in the background, Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness features (courtesy of Google DeepMind), App Actions for predicting what the user will do next, App Slices for surfacing an app's user interface inside the Google app's search results and inside Google Assistant, a BiometricPrompt API for a system-managed dialog to prompt the user for any supported type of biometric authentication, and multi-camera APIs that let you access streams simultaneously from two or more physical cameras.
It should be version 3.14 not 9.0.
Its like they haven't heard of another ARM product with Pie in its name. "Be an ass-hole!" is obviously Googles new motto.
Who came up with a naming convention that steps on an entire line of android OS's set up for the raspberry pi? What a mess for no reason.
How about no location services needed for wifi and bluetooth functions? Can we remove some of the evil?
translation: extra snooping and spying included at no extra charge!
That's all.
yeah
I see mostly anti-features and a few truly "meh" ones.
I'm not a minimalist, and can handle a truly powerful OS, but I would like less of whatever direction they think they are going in, and more of the "power to have things automated away in my way" direction.
Actually, that is the case with all of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, KDE, Gnome, etc. They all seem to deliberately head for "full retard". And treat people like retards until they have made absolutely sure they are.
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This version naming scheme seems quite finite.
But I bet people at Google discussed that already.
Anyone else think that this is just terrible.
Looks like it was designed first and only.
Also doesn't seem to be any new useful features.
Power save? You can do that by not installing every shit app out there.
Emojis? Who cares but children.
Good thing my phone isn't supported. Didnt want this shit.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Obviously English is not your first language.
You are welcome.
I’m glad they didn’t skip the number 9 like Windows and Blackberry OS. Let’s see if Google is brave enough to go to 11. MacOS has been on 10 for almost 2 decades. Windows 10 is the “last Windows”. Blackberry OS will never have a version 11.
that is what I wanted tho
Damn the comments here are all crazy contrary and dismissive. I know Android may not be all we would want but it's a new release. It will have some nice new features and UI enhancements....
The summary says:
... but there's reason to think that should be significantly less true than with previous releases. Android Oreo included Project Treble, which defined a hard boundary between the system and device-specific components that didn't previously exist. This only applied to new devices launched with Oreo, but on those ones it should be possible for device makers to simply drop a Pie system image on them and expect it to work. This should make O -> P upgrades smoother and faster than any previous pair of releases.
Of course, the devil is in the details. There is a tremendous amount variety in the Android world, and OEMs have traditionally had almost unlimited ability to modify the system as long as the app-level APIs continued to function correctly (as validated by the Compliance Test Suite). So Treble represents a sea change and there will undoubtedly be lessons to be learned and problems to fix. Also, OEMs who like to customize the system heavily will want to port all of their customizations to Pie, and that will take time, in proportion to the amount of customization they do. Devices that ship stock Android, or close to it, however, should be easy to upgrade.
Should. Over the next few months we'll start to find out how successful Treble was in achieving its goals, and how much more work remains to be done. The relatively large number of devices that ran the preview releases is a very positive sign, but time will tell.
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Plus the word "pie" can have negative connotations
Only if you're afraid of vaginas.
Are you afraid of vaginas?
I believe that should be "Spydroid Pie".
Whenever I see "AI", I think of Clippy and spellcheckers that mangle what I type.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
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Only if you're afraid of vaginas.
Are you afraid of vaginas?
Are you referring to vagenes as in "producers of pie filling"? If that's the case I'm certainly afraid of those.
I just picked up an Android phone this weekend to see if it was usable for me, and I'm shocked that the current version of Android still has a truly terrible interface. It's so bad, that I'm going to continue using my Windows Phone until it physically breaks. Is there a reason that Android (and iOS) have to have interfaces that are from 1995? Am I missing something? All of the Android phones that I've seen all have the identical interface.
I don't respond to AC's.
Slashdot is... well, not ground zero for Gamergaters, MRAs, and other douchey anti-women people, but certainly pretty close by, so yes, there's a good chance he is.
The notion of a limited roll-out of the latest Android OS to just a few select handsets -- vs a September roll-out of iOS 12 that's available to every iOS user using an iPhone 5s or above (or iPad mini 2 or above, or 6th gen iPod Touch). Fragmentation is obviously always going to be more challenging in the world of Android, but I just don't understand why the OS releases don't minimise the problems.
If you got an Android 8.1 phone, I think (?) that you're extremely likely to get updates as it's apparently much easier for the manufacturers to port all the code in, or something like that.
It's one of the few, significantly positive concepts from Google in a while.
I still think they should have a feature and bug total freeze for a solid, 3 to 6 months and do anything and everything humanly possible to make it run, as fast and lean as possible. iOS has several simple 'tricks' which make it feel faster, even when it isn't.
Phones aren't awful slouches but I'd like to see them quicker.
But what's the incentive, handset manufacturers want their phones to feel sluggish at the 12-36 month mark
In other news, Oreo's share among Android installations is just under 13%.
Several hours. Absolutely unacceptable. This version fragmentation has to stop!
Until there are specific commands that can be tied to different biometrics then biometric authentication is terrible. Right now if you lock your phone with a fingerprint then you can be compelled to produce your fingerprint. But if you could tie one fingerprint to "unlock" and another fingerprint to "lock & require password" or even "wipe and reset device" then the courts would no longer want to gamble which fingerprint or other biometric they were obtaining and attempting to use.
A bunch of useless crap that doesn't do a damn fucking thing to make the user experience any better, just a bunch more baked-in spyware.
Eat the rich.
I was so upset when I checked system update and it was 9...
Gamergate was about supporting honesty in journalism, nothing more. That you try to fabricate negative motivations for it is telling of your own unethical nature.
Google have included many optimizations in the last few versions. Since the M version (I think) they've been working on battery usage. Most versions also include compiler and runtime optimizations in the changes list.
Maybe Android it's not as efficient as iOS but Google have put a big deal of work into optimizing it.