{"id":203634,"date":"2017-03-22T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=203634"},"modified":"2017-03-22T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:05:58","slug":"android-o-promises-better-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/203634-android-o-promises-better-battery-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Android O promises better battery life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google has unveiled<\/strong><\/a> the developer preview of Android O, which introduces a number of new features and APIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding on the work we began in Nougat, Android O puts a big priority on improving a user&#8217;s battery life and the device&#8217;s interactive performance,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>To make this possible, Android puts automatic limits on what apps can do in the background, in three main areas: implicit broadcasts, background services, and location updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese changes will make it easier to create apps that have minimal impact on a user&#8217;s device and battery,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Android O also introduces new notification channels, autofill APIs, font resources in XML, adaptive icons,\u00a0Java 8 Language APIs and runtime optimisations,\u00a0WebView enhancements,\u00a0AAudio API for Pro Audio, and Wi-Fi Aware.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/202616-the-iphone-case-that-runs-android.html\">The iPhone case that runs Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled the developer preview of Android O, which introduces a number of new features and APIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,42082],"class_list":["post-203634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-android-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203634"}],"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=203634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203654,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203634\/revisions\/203654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}