While users are just beginning to get used to Android Nougat, Google the company is already in full has been developing the next version. Layfhaker published the first information about the new Android 8.0 features.
As the data from the Android Developers site, while only about two percent of users switched to Android Nougat. But it does not stop Google in its quest every year to release new versions of the operating system.
Exit Android 8.0, according to rumors, it is planned this summer. As long as there is no clarity about the name, but it is unlikely the company will give up the tradition of assigning the release of "sweet" names that start each time to the next letter of the English alphabet.
Perhaps this time it will be the Oreo, at least this is what suggests a recent tweet of one of the department heads in charge of the development of Android.
@dcseifert? pic.twitter.com/u8nMzjTIO1
- Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) February 20, 2017
Publication VentureBeat managed to get the first details about the new features that should be available in Android 8.0.
The first of these is the code name Copy Less. It is designed for automatic substitution of the required data while typing.
For example, you make an agreement with a friend chatting about the meeting in a cafe. Android will analyze your conversation and pick up a suitable institution, based on your location and the history of the movement. At that moment, when you only will be going to write in the chat name and address of the institution, keyboard Gboard already fills in the chat all the relevant information, including from Google Maps driving directions. You will only need to click on the "Submit" button.
The second function is already well known to iOS users. It allows single tap to view the location of any address in a chat, document or letter. When you touch it a pop-up window Google Maps c detailed map. This is one example of how all of Google applications in the new version of Android will be linked together.
In conclusion, the sources mention the appearance in Android 8.0 features gesture control. You will be able to draw on the screen, for example, the letter "C" to view the contacts or the letter "M" for the emergence of cards.
And what features would you like to see in the new version of Android? Draw up a wish list of Layfhakera readers?