Google rolled out its latest 9th major version of the operating system
Android P, It's a second beta release, and initial was reserved for developers.
It has introduced many new features to excite youth who are always keen to
adopt something new in their mobile phones. In Android P, AI is integrated as a
core operating system with the collaboration of Machine Learning to simplify
the user experience mobile app
development.
For mobile app
developers, this new version of Android has come up with many
advantages to increase the engagement of an app. Now Androids users can avail
the beta version of Android P on all the latest devices like Nokia, Vivo, Oppo,
Xiaomi, and others. Let’s discuss briefly how is it different from other
versions of Android?
The new features of this amazing version improve device power management
and ensure that system resources are given to the apps that need them the most.
The power-management features are divided into four categories:
- App Standby Buckets
- Background restrictions
- Battery saver improvements
- Doze
Let’s discuss all these in detail.
The
power-management features
1.
App Standby
Buckets
It’s a new battery management feature, introduced by Android P to help
systems to prioritize applications requests for resources based on the basis of
their use. On the basis of app usage patterns, each app is placed in the
buckets, most frequently used app will pace in first bucket and least will
place in the five buckets. According to the priority of the app, the system
limits the device resources available to each app. App standby buckets are
categorized into four parts:
- Active
An app is in the active
bucket if the user is currently using the app,
- Working Set
An app is in the working
set bucket if the user uses it on a regular basis.
- Frequent
An app is in the frequent
bucket if the user often uses the app.
- Rare
An app is in the rare bucket if the user not uses
it.
2.
Background
restrictions
This feature allows a system to notify a user about the excessive use of
resources by the app and give them an option of restricting the app's actions.
These background restrictions are divided into two parts:
- Excessive wake locks:
This lock held for an hour when a mobile screen is
off
- Excessive background services:
If the application has lower API levels and has
excessive background services
3.
Battery saver
improvements
Android P has made a number of refinements to battery saver mode and its
limitations are determined by the device manufacturer. For example, on AOSP
builds, the system contains the following restrictions:
- When the screen is
off, the location services will get disabled automatically.
- Background apps do not
have network access
- Background execution
limits apply to all applications
- The system can put the apps in app standby mode hostile, instead of waiting for it to be idle.
4.
Doze
Doze reduces the consumption of a battery by adjourning background
activity for apps when the device is idle for long periods of time. It also
manages the behavior of all apps running regardless of whether they are
specifically targeting API level 23.
Depending on the capabilities of the app, Doze affects apps differently,
some of the apps function normally across Doze cycles without modification.
With the help of this amazing feature, apps can efficiently manage multiple
activities during each maintenance window.
Benefits of Android P.
version
It makes smartphones smarter with the help of machine intelligence to
offer satisfying experiences. There are enormous features coming with Android
P, let’s discuss a few of them:
- Adaptive Battery
- App Actions
- Slices
- Text Classifier
- Simplicity
- Text Magnifier
- Enhanced audio with Dynamics Processing
- Biometric prompt
- Background restrictions
Let us know what you think about this new version of Android.
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