

Android O is expected to roll out this year with Pixel smartphones and will be made available for other smartphones in 2018.Ĭlick on Deccan Chronicle Technology and Science for the latest news and reviews. Google is testing a new SystemUI Tuner menu for users to change the default lock screen shortcuts to an application or activity of their choice. The new Android update aims to bring improvements to the battery life and device’s interactive performance.

This should be quite useful when users receive notifications from games or alerts that are of little importance at a certain moment in time.ĭevelopers will set the timeouts for various notifications and when the countdown ends, the notifications will disappear from the screen. Google on 23 April 2017 introduced the first code for its new feature 'Copyless Paste' in its Chrome app running on Android OS. The new feature will enable notifications to dismiss themselves automatically, if the user hasn’t interacted with them in certain amount of time. The new feature is dubbed as the ‘notification timeout’. With the new update Google plans to enhance the OS’ design, functionality and upgrading the notification centre. One of them being the disappearing notifications, which self-dismiss after a certain period of time. Separately, Google recently released the developer preview of the Android O revealing some new features of the upcoming operating system. Dubbed Copyless Paste, the feature is accessible under Chromes flags. It is believed that Google could announce the new feature at its I/O developer conference, scheduled for later in May. Google is testing a new feature for the Android version of its Chrome web browser.
