10 Best Android N Features : New Android Nutella 7.0 Released By GooGle
- Android
N is the next iteration of Android that will be coming with the most
sought-after features. Though Android N is still under development,
however, we can still anticipate some of the best Android N feature
taking at a sneak preview at the Android N Developer’s preview recently released by Google.
- Some are terming the upcoming new Android N features as a follow-up of the best iOS 9.0 features.
Well, we will take a quick look at those and we will also see how
Android N’s upcoming features vary from iOS features as well. So, here
are some of the new Android N features:
* 1. Multi-Windows Support: The Best Android N features:
- Android
N is going to introduce the much-requested multitasking feature into
the platform — multi-window support. Multi-windows support might mimic
split-screen view of iOS 9.0. Using Multi-Windows support,
- A
user can run two apps side-by-side on phones and tablets running Android
N. In the war of superiority in Android N vs iOS 9.0, this new and the
best Android feature, outruns iOS 9.0.
- While Apple restricts
using two different apps to a fixed screen size like one-third (in split
view mode) and one-half (in Split-screen mode), Android N, on the other
hand, lets users resize the apps by dragging the divider between them.
- On
top of that, on Android TV devices, different apps can be put
themselves in picture-in-picture mode, allowing them to continue showing
content while the user browses or interacts with other apps.
- On
devices with a larger screen, especially on tablets and other
larger-screen devices, multi-window support gives users a freedom of
multi-tasking.
- An Android N user can even enable drag-and-drop in his apps.
- When
we talk more about iOS 9.0 vs Android N, iOS 9.0 does not give you a
virtual freedom to configure split-screen view on all the apps whereas
Android N lets you configure your app as how it handles multi-window
display.
- For example, in Multi-Windows support in Android N, you
can specify your activity’s minimum allowable dimensions. This prevents
users from resizing the activity below that size. Even you can also
disable multi-window display for your app, which ensures that the system
will only show your app in full-screen mode.
* 2. Notification Enhancements: The Smart Android N features:
- By
swiping and dragging down the notification alerts in Android, we often
built an urge to reply then and there instead of tapping and going to
an app like a WhatsApp chat notification. And this time, Google has come
cleaner on this with Notification Enhancements.
- Avatar and Images:
In the notifications enhancement, Google has integrated avatar and
Images so that you can see who has sent you an email or a chat message.
- Bundled Notifications:
Just like tagging in Gmail, you can also bundle your chats and messages
based on a tag or a topic. The bundled notifications feature of Android
N lets you archive the entire mail or chat in one go as you can see in
the image above.
- Direct reply: Now
you do not need to tap in the notification alert and go to the app to
reply a chat, you can directly reply a mail or a chat from the
notification window itself.
- Custom views: The custom views in Android N lets you decorate your notification style in your own way.
* 3. Quick Settings: The handy Android N features:
- Quick
Settings lets you define your key settings and actions directly from
the notification shade. This new Android N feature has enhanced the
scope of Quick Settings to make it even more useful and convenient.
- Pagination:
Google has paginated the Quick Settings tiles which can be accessed by
swiping left or right. Even Google has given freedom to add or move
tiles just by dragging and dropping them.
- From the developers’
point of view, Quick Settings can be used by developers to add tiles for
the apps that are either urgently required or frequently used.
* 4. Data Saver: A Hybrid Child of iOS Background App Refresh and Windows 10 Metered connection:
- Google
has wisely made use of iOS background app refresh and Microsoft Windows
10 metered connection to restrict the data usage by the Android apps in
the background as well as the foreground.
- Android
N Data saver feature takes cues from iOS background App refresh in
terms of the Android apps in the background restricting the background
data usage by the apps in the background.
- On
the other hand, Android N takes cues from Windows 10 metered
connection to restrict data usage by the Android apps in the foreground
by limiting bit rate for streaming, reducing image quality, deferring
optimistic pre-caching, and so on.
- It
should be noted that most of the battery are consumed by the cellular
data plan and battery consumption increases when we are on roaming. So,
in the settings, a user can turn on Data saver to save battery life on
Android.
- Apart from this best Android N features, there are
other significant feature enhancements on Android N. Keep on reading for
them.
* 5. Android TV recording in Android N:
- Android N adds the ability to record and playback content from Android TV. This features can be used via new recording APIs.
* 6. Android Accessibility enhancements:
- Well,
if you do not know, then you should know that some of the apps which
have visual and audial interactions with the mobile users who are
visually impaired or deaf, must comply with certain rules. Developers
have a hard time complying with such rules.
- With Android N new
features, a user will be offered Vision Settings directly on the welcome
screen for new device setup. This makes it much easier for users to
configure accessibility features like magnification gesture, font size,
display size, and TalkBack.
* 7. Call screening feature in Android N:
- Android N allows the default phone app to screen incoming calls. Some the call screening features are:
- Reject the incoming call
- Do not allow the call to the call log
- Do not show the user a notification for the call
* 8. Number blocking:
- On the other hand, Number blocking features are:
- Numbers blocked on calls are also blocked on texts
- Blocked numbers can persist across resets and devices through the Backup & Restore feature
- Multiple apps can use the same blocked numbers list
* 9. Key attestation in Android N:
- Hardware-backed
key stores provide a much safer method to create, store, and use
cryptographic keys on Android devices. They protect keys from the Linux
kernel, potential Android vulnerabilities, and extraction from rooted
devices.
* 10. Network Security Config:
- Android N gives you
the freedom to customize the behavior of their secure (HTTPS, TLS)
connections safely, without any code modification. On the development
side, this Android N feature is going to support the developers a lot
especially in the VOIP, SIP, RTP/RTCP setups.
- Some of the supported features of Network Security Config are:
- Custom trust anchors.
Lets an application customize which Certificate Authorities (CA) are
trusted for its secure connections. For example, trusting particular
self-signed certificates or a restricted set of public CAs.
- Debug-only overrides. Lets an application developer safely debug secure connections of their application without added risk to the installed base.
- Cleartext traffic opt-out. Lets an application protect itself from an accidental usage of cleartext traffic.
Certificate pinning. An advanced feature that lets an application limit which server keys are trusted for secure connections.
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