Yesterday and without prior notice, Google released what will be the next version of Google's operating system for mobile devices. As usual at the moment, the only thing we know of its final name is the initial N, but until it is officially presented at the next conference for skinners to be held at the end of May, we will not know with any luck, as Google will baptize this seventh version of Android. In keeping with the tradition of using candy names, Nutela was likely one of the selected names, but until it is officially released, all names that are spoken will be speculation.
As usual, this new version will bring new functions, some of them already available in the devices of some manufacturers thanks to the layers of personalization that they include in their devices to personalize them, as is the case with Samsung with multitasking.
Here are some of the pmain news that the seventh version of Android will bring usSome of them are already available in iOS 9, so this time it would have been Google who has copied to iOS.
Multitasking
With the arrival of iOS 9, the most modern iPads, allow you to use two applications on the screen and interact jointly with both, something that iPad users have been waiting for a long time but that until now Apple had not wanted to implement.
Jailbroken users could do it, but eThe result was not so intuitive like the one now available natively. Multitasking is one of the novelties that Android N will bring us but as in iOS 9, it will only be available in the version for tablets.
PIP Picture-in-Picture
Another of the functions that Apple already offers from iOS 9 also only to iPad users and that allows us to watch videos in a floating window. This function was available in Samsung terminals, like multitasking but with this update, It will also reach all Android tablets that can be updated to this latest version.
Improved notifications
And they go 3. Android N will offer us the ability to respond, archive or postpone the notifications that we receive from the applications we have installed. This function came with iOS 8 but really until the arrival of iOS 9 developers have not been able to take full advantage of it, since Apple did not allow it.
Battery management improvements
The battery, the happy Achilles heel of mobile devices. Twelve is the energy saving system that Google launched with Marshmallow, it allows enter our mobile into a kind of hibernation when we are not using it, that is, when it is on a table without connecting it to the power. If we put it in our pocket or backpack, the motion sensors will prevent it from entering this type of hibernation. With Android N, Doze will run whenever we turn off the device's screen, warning only of important notifications.
Improved memory usage
Google has worked to improve memory use especially in applications that are always working in the background, in order to improve the use of Androoid N in devices that have less memory, although the current trend of new smartphones is to offer between 3 and 4 GB of RAM, in order to more efficiently manage the applications found in second plane, which depending on the type of users we are, can be many.
Performance improvements
As is logical, this new version will also bring improvements in the performance and operation of the system by offering greater stability to the entire system. Performance improvements that in many cases, as they are not visual, tend to go unnoticed by users, which are a very important part of the experience of using all operating systems.
There comes a point where adding new functions to operating systems is not so easy, and the sensible thing to do is to copy attractive functions found in other operating systems to include them in your own. Nor is it the first time Google is inspired by iOS, nor will it be the last time that iOS is inspired by Android. All companies are copied or inspired by the competition. The good thing about it is that we are always lIt is end users who are the winners.
Now IOS10 needs to be inspired by Android N, with the shortcuts, by external apps and modifiable by the user.
- Set the default app in operations (browser, mail, contacts, call, launcher)
- A Micro File System, for not always depending on the cloud and having an internet connection
- Put a fixed app on the screen for children that can only be unlocked by pattern, touch, etc.
- Multi-application on screen for all apps,
The penultimate function you mention to fix an application has been available in iOS for a long time, it is called "Guided Access" and can be activated from "Accessibility", as for multiplication, the SplitView is already on the iPad, it is not possible. to what extent it makes sense on an iPhone, it may be interesting but it will be seen if Apple incorporates it ...
Webserveis each application has its own file system, many of these files can be accessed from iTunes or even via Wi-Fi in the case of FileMaster. Putting a fixed application on the screen can be done from iOS 8, it is called Guided Access. In iOS 9 you can open any file in any application that supports it, it is quite similar to what you say "by default". What is on-screen multiplication for all apps? You have an Iphone?
The default I mean that if you click on a link and you have, safari, chrome, firefox, it asks you with whom you want to open it "once, or always" by email, the same if you click send email that lets you choose or the app that you establish by default, maps etc ...
The files you always have to send "share with" to open the file with another app, but if it had a mini internal document, where it is housed, photos, music, downloads etc ... it would be more productive, think that IOS if one day it has a multi-window native for all apps, right now you have to do it by sharing the file in the cloud, but if you don't have internet you can't.
For example, if you need to edit photos with two different apps, you will not start sending RAW photos with the data rate on an ipad pro
Well, badly they go if they are inspired by iOS 9. It would be better that they had been inspired by iOS 6.
Both systems copy each other, iOS took longer than Android to introduce third-party keyboards and widgets, and Android after that included Android Pay, Fingerprint API and some other things, it is not worth debating who is copied from whom ...
we are cold
if we talk about copying…. apple goes ass with it.
In these 3 years, Apple has copied a lot of aspects of Android, notifications panel, widgets, keyboards of 3rd division of the screen.
Do you expect that now they will put 4k on the screens or 2k with Amoled and waterproof? hahahajjjajajajajjaja
The fanaticism just hurts ... I honestly do not see anything innovative in iOS or Apple products
Please have these types of articles written by someone who knows a little more about Android and what it is talking about. Multitasking has been native to Android since time immemorial, what is being talked about now is the multiscreen that is not the same and is something that Samsung implemented before Apple, therefore, in any case, iOS will have been inspired by Samsung. Talking about Android notifications being inspired by iOS is, to say the least, blushing. And another thing, the battery saving system is called Doze, with Z, not Twelve.
I see that the Doze thing is a typo because later it is well written.