{"id":135446,"date":"2015-08-18T08:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=135446"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:59:07","slug":"android-6-0-marshmallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/135446-android-6-0-marshmallow.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 6.0 Marshmallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled the title of its new version of Android using\u00a0a statue at its headquarters. Called Marshmallow, it will replace Android Lollipop.<\/p>\n<p>Android 6.0 Marshmallow was first unveiled at Google I\/O on 28 May, and is set to be released in the third quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Android Marshmallow will introduce a redesigned permission model with only eight permission categories, and permissions will not automatically be granted.<\/p>\n<p>An opt-in system is now used, in which users are prompted to grant or deny individual permissions to an application when they are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Android 6.0 Marshmallow will also provide native support for fingerprint recognition, and a new power management scheme will reduce a device&#8217;s background activity.<\/p>\n<p>Marshmallow supports USB Type-C, including the ability to instruct devices to charge another device over USB.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of the Android names from Android 1.5, courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cupcake (1.5)<\/li>\n<li>Donut (1.6)<\/li>\n<li>Eclair (2.0\u20132.1)<\/li>\n<li>Froyo (2.2\u20132.2.3)<\/li>\n<li>Gingerbread (2.3\u20132.3.7)<\/li>\n<li>Honeycomb (3.0\u20133.2.6)<\/li>\n<li>Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0\u20134.0.4)<\/li>\n<li>Jelly Bean (4.1\u20134.3.1)<\/li>\n<li>KitKat (4.4\u20134.4.4, 4.4W\u20134.4W.2)<\/li>\n<li>Lollipop (5.0\u20135.1.1)<\/li>\n<li>Marshmallow (6.0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pct9Hl7l4E4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Android<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/134564-massive-android-vulnerability-means-hackers-can-take-over-your-phone.html\">Massive Android vulnerability means hackers can take over your phone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/133430-your-android-smartphone-can-be-hacked-with-one-message.html\"><strong>Your Android smartphone can be hacked with one message<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/129782-massive-samsung-security-vulnerability-are-you-affected.html\"><strong>Massive Samsung security vulnerability: are you affected?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed the name of the new version of Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":135448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,32208,32210,167],"class_list":["post-135446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-android-6-0","tag-android-marshmallow","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135446"}],"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=135446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135450,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135446\/revisions\/135450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}