The new Android P

The newest features on Android P is called App Actions.

Now you might be asking yourself:

What is App Actions? What can it do

So let’s summarize it all up.

So, on this new OS version App Actions can predict the next action that you might take in certain apps.

It can do it at certain times of the day or depend on different contextual signals like if you plug in a set of headphones.

So there are different types of ways and the actions are surfaced.

The first one is essentially in your app drawer:

For an example, if you open maps it can directly give you directions to your workplace if it predicts that you do it a lot.

The second example it can predict what music you might want to listen to.

Another way actions can be useful is when you’re doing a search.

So for an example, if I type something on ”Machine Learning” it will hand out some suggestions as like a book on Mchine learning or even links to some courses.

What if you want a car ride?

Easy. You can type on google “uber” and it will hand out where you want to go without using the app.

In Gmail

You’re maybe making dinner plans, you can simply highlight some of the text and then the action will know if it’s a restaurant it can book a place or if you highlight a music artists name it can open Spotify to play a song.

Android P also has a new way to navigate your phones:

All you need to do is:

swipe up and it gets to the app switcher

swipe up again and it gives you the app drawer

Smart Replies

This is something the app developers have to build into their apps, so not every sing app will have this feature right now

You might start receiving a bunch of messages or a message and smart reply predicts what you might want to reply.

Other cool features

You can open up the app switchers and go onto any app within the app switcher and:

tap and hold

copy and paste any text

Also, you can:

press and hold the power button

you will receive an option to screenshot or

restart the device

turn off

Another thing is you can enable disturb mode and it essentially locks all notifications.

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