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JR Raphael/IDGĪndroid 9 introduced a short-lived setup for getting around phones with a mix of both gestures and buttons. Pie's most transformative change was its hybrid gesture/button navigation system, which traded Android's traditional Back, Home, and Overview keys for a large, multifunctional Home button and a small Back button that appeared alongside it as needed.
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Android 9, wafted into the Android ecosystem in August of 2018. The freshly baked scent of Android Pie, a.k.a.
#SNAPDRAGON BATTERY GURU FOR MARSHMALLOW SOFTWARE#
The 2017 release also included some noteworthy elements that furthered Google's goal of aligning Android and Chrome OS and improving the experience of using Android apps on Chromebooks, and it was the first Android version to feature Project Treble - an ambitious effort to create a modular base for Android's code with the hope of making it easier for device-makers to provide timely software updates. Oreo added several significant features to the operating system, including a new picture-in-picture mode. Android version 8.0 and 8.1: OreoĪndroid Oreo added a variety of niceties to the platform, including a native picture-in-picture mode, a notification snoozing option, and notification channels that offer fine control over how apps can alert you. The Assistant would go on to become a critical component of Android and most other Google products and is arguably the company's foremost effort today. Perhaps most pivotal among Nougat's enhancements, however, was the launch of the Google Assistant - which came alongside the announcement of Google's first fully self-made phone, the Pixel, about two months after Nougat's debut. JR Raphael / IDGĪndroid 7.0 Nougat and its new native split-screen mode. Nougat added some smaller but still significant features, too, like an Alt-Tab-like shortcut for snapping between apps. Google's 2016 Android Nougat releases provided Android with a native split-screen mode, a new bundled-by-app system for organizing notifications, and a Data Saver feature. Marshmallow and the almost-brilliance of Google Now on Tap.Īndroid 6.0 did introduce some stuff with lasting impact, though, including more granular app permissions, support for fingerprint readers, and support for USB-C. Google never quite perfected the system and ended up quietly retiring its brand and moving it out of the forefront the following year. Marshmallow's most attention-grabbing element was a screen-search feature called Now On Tap - something that, as I said at the time, had tons of potential that wasn't fully tapped. But it started the trend of Google releasing one major Android version per year and that version always receiving its own whole number.
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In the grand scheme of things, 2015's Marshmallow was a fairly minor Android release - one that seemed more like a 0.1-level update than anything deserving of a full number bump.
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