What you should know about Android Marshmallow
Android Marshmallow (formerly M) is the name of the successor of Android Lollipop. On May 28, 2015, during Google I / O 2015, the new Android version was officially unveiled by Google. Since it became known that the update focuses on improvements and the quality of the operating system. That does not mean that Marshmallow introduces no new features. All we know so far about the new Android, you read on this page.
The latest news about Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Below you will find the latest news related to Android Marshmallow. Further on this page we show you what is possible is all new in this Android version
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Android Marshmallow in a nutshell
Android introduces Marshmallow many improvements that are visible and less visible. The main points we have listed below for you to put a row. This page features regular updates, as more learn about the Android version.
- Android is more energy efficient by Doze , a smart power-saving mode
- You can now separate app permissions to approve or reject
- Google Now on Tap feature uses the context on your screen relevant information
- Standard support for Android Pay and fingerprint scanners
- Support for USB c smartphones and tablets
- Simpler options for adjust the volume
- Handy flying clipboard to cut and paste text
- Various bug fixes and Stability improvements
- Preview Version since May 2015 available Android Marshmallow release in Q3 2015
The above information is based on the first three preview versions, so it is possible that the change a few things in the run the official Android Marshmallow release later this year. Keep an eye on this page for the latest news.
The innovations in Android Marshmallow
At the start of Google I / O 2015, which includes Android Marshmallow was officially unveiled, gave Google that the new Android version is mainly focused on fixing bugs. There are, implemented in Marshmallow thousands of bug fixes, some stability and security benefits of the operating system.
Google made after Google I / O a preview version of Android Marshmallow available, as the search giant that last year did with Android Lollipop. The Android Marshmallow release of the consumer version has a few months later, in the third quarter, occur. But what innovations Marshmallow introduces exactly? We will elaborate on below.
Better battery life by ‘Doze
The new Android release focuses on improved performance and is smarter with features that require a lot of battery . So should Google Apps minimize ask users of the site, relieving the memory as much as possible and background processes (when the device is not charging or the display is off) become even more limited. To achieve this, the Google Play Services will also be taken care
Android Marshmallow is thanks to a new feature called “Doze” more efficiently with the battery of your smartphone. To reduce battery consumption, Marshmallow used smart motion detection to see if your Android device is moved. If this is not the case, then the sleep mode is switched on. Which uses less data and power, which is in Google ensures that Android devices (the Nexus 9 is given as an example) twice to do so long with one full battery charge.
Thanks Doze is Android Marshmallow smarter with the battery of your device
Application Permissions itself approve
What app permissions are concerned, it is still all or nothing for Android. When downloading an app you see what permissions to these calls, but you must all accept them in order to use the app even make. IOS users already have the ability to determine which applications can and can not have access to, and that from Android 6.0 finally be possible.
From this version you do as Android user no longer sorts app -permissies accept when you install an app. Only when the app will get access to a specific permission, such as contacts, location, camera or photos, then the user has to give permission to a permission through a pop-up window. Once done, the app always has access to this permission until the user him off again.
In the settings (see above), a new section where users can view the permissions of all the apps and customize . For each permission you can indicate whether the app should have access to here. Hopefully, the new feature is not new problems, for example when users Facebook block access to photos, but according to not see immediately why they can upload photos to the social network.
Google Now on Tap
Android Marshmallow also introduced Google Now on Tap. This is a new feature that analyzes what is displayed on your screen, and on this basis shows the right information at the right time. Now on Tap can set reminders, information on restaurants and directly retrieve the correct phone numbers for you.
Now on Tap works in all apps without the app developer so without having to make special adjustments. So you can while playing a certain song the real name of the artist displayed using a voice command. Exemplified Skrillex, a DJ who in real life Sonny John Moore called
When you push the home button on your Android device in and say ‘Here I need help, “Now on Tap will provide you based on the context information. And you have opened an e-mail that is about a particular movie, Now on Tap will display relevant information at the touch of a button (remember the trailer, actors and IMDb information). So you can quickly check whether the film worth watching is worth
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Android Pay and fingerprint authentication
Another major innovation of Android Marshmallow Pay is Android. The payment platform was previously drained and should be particularly easy to use. Simplicity, security and choice are key. The latter is partly because your credit card number is not shared with shops where you pay.
Android Pay works with any Android phone with NFC and requires Android 4.4 (KitKat) or newer. Pay is still deployed in the US alone; it is still unclear whether and when users from other countries with the payment platform can work
A focus of Android 6.0 Marshmallow which connects to Android Pay, is the native support for fingerprint scanners. Android 6.0 makes it possible to unlock your phone with your fingerprint and make payment in Google Play. An API for developers is made available to implement the feature in apps.
Other small improvements in Android 6.0
Android 6.0 also brings some minor features and improvements. An example of this is the USB-c-terminal. At Google I / O 2015 was stopped briefly at the new terminal, but Google promises that we hear more about soon get here. The advantage of USB-c is that this connection allows faster throughput and data flow as possible. So you can quickly recharge your phone and transfer files.
Finally, new to the simpler options for customizing the volume and flying pasteboard. With the latter cutting and pasting into text easier. Text selection comes with Android 6.0 word-for-word (rather than letter-by-letter), so you can work faster when writing.
Anticipated Android Marshmallow release and name
The Android Marshmallow preview images are now available. The consumer release of the new Android version will take place in the third quarter of this year, and then will finally know what exactly has all changed and improved.
Android Marshmallow preview: this brings the new Android version
Google Android 6.0 Marshmallow during the Google I / O revealed and reported that the new Android version especially a lot of bugs dissolves. Planet Android install the Developer Preview and look at what’s changed.
Meanwhile, there is already a new version of the Developer Preview, making some things have changed again. The preview below relates only to the first version of the Developer Preview, but it gives a good idea of the new Android version.
First impression and performance
The first thing you notice is Google uses a new font and wallpaper for Android Marshmallow. Also, the phone icon at the bottom left of the lock screen replacement by an icon of a microphone, which will open soon Google Now. The smart assistant Google is still to be found to the left of the home screen. The home screen has not changed much, except that it is now possible to remove apps from the home screen directly from your mobile device. You do not have this first go to the app drawer.
The app drawer is also renewed and scroll vertically. At the top you find your recently used apps and if you look closely you can see a search icon. When you tap it, you will see a search box where you can search for an app. This is useful if you have installed many apps. By displaying the green characters to the left of the icons the app drawer looks a bit messy, but the future can still be changed by Google. It often happens that many users had during the Developer Preview on a critical component, and Google has adapted it for the official release.
Android Marshmallow runs quickly and smoothly and has some new animations. When you open an app it is from the app icon expanded to full screen – as in KitKat – but with a Material Design-like animation. It is flowing, but looks a bit tighter and faster than before. Pressing the home button will still allow the app to slide down the screen. The multitask window is not, however, changed
Android Marshmallow runs quickly and smoothly
So far, there is one app crashed:. Twitter, and then only at a very specific act. Some Android users complain about application crashes, which included Uber and Evernote are called. However, I use these two apps do not.
What perhaps not everyone immediately noticeable is that the hotspot feature of the Nexus 6 shows a 5GHz option. As avid hotspot user in the train, this is a fine addition, partly because 5GHz is faster and more stable in crowded areas. With 5GHz you even during a conference easily tether without you have trouble with all 2.4GHz networks.
Settings and do not disturb
The quick settings panel is not really renewed, but it is possible to find a new button: ‘do not disturb’. If you press this, comes a new window where you can select three modes. The first is the only priority, “where you can choose what priority messages. Would you like to be disturbed only by messages from specific people? Then you can set. The same applies to calls where you have the option in Android Marshmallow – if the same number twice in quick succession belt – the second time or to allow the sound. Handy if you normally only want to be disturbed by contacts but want to hear urgent calls as well.
The priority mode and silent mode we already know Android Lollipop. Android Marshmallow adds one mode and turns quiet mode “total silence”. Sounds no alarm, no call, no message: absolutely nothing will disturb you. If you want to mute everything except the upcoming alarm, select ‘only alarms. This allows the sound settings easier to use and are also most apparent, but they are still somewhat tucked away in the quick settings panel.
The ‘only alarmen’ mode mutes now all sounds except the alarm
If you’ve enabled a mode, you can turn this quickly by pressing the volume buttons. Then under the volume slider a message to stop the mode directly. The slider is moreover adapted something where you can move the icon of the volume slider now flowing over the bar. That’s no longer in specific steps, as previously
The settings can be shown in two color schemes in Android Marshmallow:. Light and dark. On the screenshots above is to see the dark variant. This has the advantage of AMOLED screens with this color scheme consume less energy and that it is more pleasant in the evening to see. Since Google has taken into account and there is also an automatic mode color scheme present that matches the colors on the basis of time. So the daytime and clear in the evening and nighttime darkness. Also in the settings to find a separate section for Google, where you can see all kinds of Google settings.
Multi Window
It works tremendously simple: you activate multi-window and multi task list is now see an icon that you can add an app to the screen, under the app you have open at that time
Google Now on Tap and permissions <. /> h2>
Google Now gets into Android Marshmallow a more important role than before. So you can print via the new Google Now on Tap one second on the home button to instantly see additional information about what your screen. Suppose you listen Spotify and Google Now on Tap used the smart search assistant displays relevant information about the artist you are listening to, such as the latest albums and when ‘he is acting in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, Google Now on Tap still not available in the Android Developer Preview Marshmallow, and have so far only Google employees available to this function.
Another important change that brings Android Marshmallow, is the ability to fast -instellingenpaneel customize to your liking. You can add and remove tiles, and change the layout of the tiles. Since the introduction of the quick settings panel in Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) Android users have been asking for the ability to customize the buttons, and Google now seems finally to respond.
Also shows Android Marshmallow called domain URLs in apps. These are links that are associated with apps, giving you faster to the right page is headed in the right app. Suppose you open a PayPal link in the browser. Then automatically the ING app – or other supported banking app – open, allowing you to complete the payment. This is possible since lollipop, but Android 5.0 you have to press after the opening of such a link to the app in the list of compatible apps. Android Marshmallow you can set the app is opened directly, what the experience for example a PayPal payment makes a lot smoother. It integrates with the Chrome apps on your smartphone or tablet.
The biggest change that brings Android Marshmallow, is the ability to set the right apps. When you install an app you simply do not agree with all permissions, but you can assign permissions each app when an app needs it. Facebook wants access to your location? Then the app first asks, and you must explicitly give permission. In the App list of Android Marshmallow you can see the press emissions per app and change.
In the Developer Preview of Android Marshmallow the feature does not yet work as advertised. That’s largely because developers have not yet adapted their apps for the new app-justice system. If you disable a permission of an app in the Developer Preview, the app may crash for example. It must also approve you yet all permissions during installation. So it is to wait for the developers to update their apps for this.
The energy efficient Doze
To be sure that some apps are allowed to wake the device zoalsWhatsApp to avoid the association with WhatsApp Web lose, you can add “ignore optimizations” app to the list. Here you also find the example download app from Android; otherwise the download will be truncated during Doze mode.
In practice, I notice very little Doze
In practice, however, I note little Doze. As you can see in the screenshot to the right, my Nexus 6 has experienced a lot of wake locks; times when your device is awakened by an application or process. That was at Lollipop quite different, where I got my wake locks well under control. However, it is too early to judge based on one day use and a Developer Preview, but a real improvement I do not see yet.
Smart Lock and Google Photos
Google also SmartLock after the release of the Android Developer Preview Marshmallow updated with a very interesting feature. This is not specifically available for Android Marshmallow, but we’ll discuss it anyway love. SmartLock now also offers the ability to automatically log you into web sites and apps. This works via the password manager of Google. So many people store their credentials websites on Google, and it can also be linked to apps. The log of the Netflix website is indeed the same as the app.
Apps that support the new SmartLock like Netflix (see screenshot above), sign up after installing the app automatically. Just press the app. This also applies to websites where Google credentials to find. It’s very handy and even has something magical. It is also quite logical that if you have registered for a service via the desktop browser and then download the app on your smartphone, you will be logged in automatically.
Google Photos of the update features and already For all devices with Android version 4.0 and higher. Besides the new unlimited backup option – in up to 16 megapixels or 1080p – also design taken in hand. Photos are automatically sorted by days but by spreading two fingers apart on the screen zooms out so that days turn into months or years. So you can quickly switch to the past and in your archive to search images.
Impressive is the search of the new Google Photos app. When Google recognizes me all kinds of pictures with beer, food or bike on it, and the results of search terms that I provide very accurate. I can search for example ‘snow’ or ‘smartphone’, after which pictures are displayed with the relevant concepts
Android Marshmallow preview:. Conclusion
In our Android Marshmallow preview we have all kinds of parts of the upcoming Android version treatable, but still not all. Ranging from Bluetooth-scan to find your location more quickly to the ability to set notifications at the top of your screen set by app: Android Marshmallow offers lots of small new things. As Android Marshmallow make something clear is that Google is satisfied with Lollipop and the direction it is taking with the new Material Design. Thus this version of Android Marshmallow feels not as new or innovative as the Developer Preview Lollipop, but as an improved and refined version of Android 5.0.
Android Marshmallow is improved and sophisticated version of Lollipop
As a user, you might be pleased with the ability to set permissions each app, but it is the many small improvements that Android Marshmallow so interesting. That not-disturb mode works well and clearly. Or that Google Now with a small addition of a sudden going to play an extremely important role within Google. And this is not all that Google Android Marshmallow plans. In the coming period we will see through updates to the Developer Preview what Google still has in store for Android users.
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