A Quick Guide About Android P

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:

1. App Standby Buckets
2. Background Restrictions
3. Battery Saver Improvements
4. Doze

Let’s discuss all these in detail.

The Power-Management Features

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:

1. Active

An app is in the active bucket if the user is currently using the app.

2. Working Set

An app is in the working set bucket if the user uses it on a regular basis.

3. Frequent

An app is in the frequent bucket if the user often uses the app.

4. Rare

An app is in the rare bucket if the user not uses it.

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:

1. Excessive Wake Locks

This lock held for an hour when a mobile screen is off

2. Excessive Background Services

If the application has lower API levels and has excessive background services

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.

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.