Latest features in Android P

In year 2018 at I/O Developers Conference, Google revealed the all features that will be in the next version of Android. Android P has artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core and focuses on digital wellbeing and simplicity. This AI powered OS will change the way we use our smart phones.

“Android P makes a smart phone smarter, helping it learn from and adapt to the user. Your apps can take advantage of the latest in machine intelligence to help you reach more users and offer new kinds of experiences,” Google said in a blog post.

Let’s take a look at the brand new AI-powered features that are coming the latest android operating system Android P:

1.   Adaptive Battery

Every mobile phone user wants great battery backup to stay connected with their loved once. Android P uses machine learning to give a consistent battery experience. Google developed a new feature parented with DeepMind called Adaptive Battery.   

Adaptive Battery uses machine learning to prioritize access to system resources for the apps the user cares about most. It puts running apps into groups with different restrictions using four new "App Standby buckets" ranging from "active" to "rare". Apps will change buckets over time, and apps not in the "active" bucket will have restrictions in: jobs, alarms, network and high-priority Firebase Cloud Messages.

2.   Adaptive Brightness
Don’t worry about changing your brightness — your phone learns how you like to set it and automatically adjusts. Easy as pie. Android P uses machine learning to learn from your manual adjustments to automatically adjust the screen brightness the level suits you and also saves time and battery.

3.   Efficient User Interface

App Actions predicts what you’re about to do, so you get to your next task more quickly. If you do something like connect your headphones, the play list you were listening to earlier is front and center.

4.   Slices

Slices bring relevant parts of your favorite apps to the surface. Next time you search for Amazon, you can see prices and product right within your results

5.   Digital Wellbeing
This new AI feature in Android P will prevent your smart phone addiction. It will understand users habits, help us focus on what matters, suggest people to switch off their phones and wind down to find more time for our family. It includes:

Dashboard: This feature will show you how much time you have spent on your device and what you have been doing with it.
App Timer: It allows you to specify how much time you spend time on certain apps and nudge you when your allotted time draws near and grey out the app once the time is up.
Wind Down: This feature will automatically enable Night Light, turn on Do Not Disturb mode, cut down on the blue light emitted by the screen and turn the screen to gray scale mode at your set bedtime.