{"id":127644,"date":"2015-05-28T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=127644"},"modified":"2015-05-28T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:27:40","slug":"android-m-release-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/127644-android-m-release-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Android M release announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has revealed\u00a0the next version of its popular Android mobile operating system, which it is calling the \u201cM release\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dave Burke, the head of Android engineering at Google, went through some of the new features of the operating system on 28 May at Google I\/O, the search giant\u2019s conference for developers.<\/p>\n

A developer preview of Android’s M release will be available immediately, with its public release expected to follow in Q3 2015.<\/p>\n

Burke said the central theme of M is to improve the core user experience of Android, and highlighted the following 8 changes coming to M:<\/p>\n

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  1. App permissions <\/strong>–\u00a0Number of permissions decreased to 8. Apps will ask you permission the first time it tries to use a feature, rather than during installation.<\/li>\n
  2. Web browsing <\/strong>–\u00a0Chrome custom tabs lets developers include the browser in their app without having to build in webview. Users can access saved passwords, autofill, and all Chrome\u2019s other features.<\/li>\n
  3. Linking to apps <\/strong>–\u00a0Verified links introduced which will automatically route to correct apps (e.g. Twitter links to the Twitter app) without first displaying the disambiguation dialog.<\/li>\n
  4. Android pay <\/strong>–\u00a0Standardise support for fingerprint scanners.<\/li>\n
  5. Doze <\/strong>–\u00a0Trading off \u201capp freshness\u201d for battery life by having Android\u2019s background sync back off exponentially when a device has been inactive for long periods.<\/li>\n
  6. USB Type C<\/strong> –\u00a0Support for the new reversible USB plug standard, as well as the ability to act as a power\/charge source.<\/li>\n
  7. Word selection <\/strong>–\u00a0Better word selection for copy and paste.<\/li>\n
  8. Volume controls <\/strong>–\u00a0You can get a drop-down to control different volume levels, and the ability to properly silence devices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    More Android news<\/h3>\n

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    Twitter\u2019s Periscope live video streaming app launched on Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Android crushing its competitors in South Africa\u2019s mobile race<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    MixRadio launched on Android, iPhone in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Windows 10 can get Android, iOS, Mac apps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Google has announced the next version of Android, along with a developer preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[397,30674,167,35],"class_list":["post-127644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-android-m-release","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127654,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127644\/revisions\/127654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}