Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) – What’s new? – Total Computer

The previous Android version (5.0, Lollipop) was a big visible change. This version had a brand new visual style called Material Design. No major visual changes do you see reflected in Android (6.0, Marshmallow). But it makes the update less intrusive? Certainly not. Read also: Google unveils two new Nexus smartphones

Permissions withdraw

The only major shortcoming of Android versus iOS was that it is not possible to deny access to apps from your address book for example, location, agenda, and other system resources. Many apps in the Play Store were there from abuse by requiring too many permissions during installation to rake in as large amounts of user data. For users it was sink or swim: if you install the app (and give all your data rate) or you do not install the app. In Marshmallow there last change came in. If an installed app itself first attempt to give access to a resource, you can indicate if you find this desirable or not. You will also find an overview by permission access to settings / apps to the cog in the upper right hand corner and select App rights. An indispensable for added safety feature and privacy that Android should actually much earlier.

Finally you can get apps like Facebook fend off your privegegens

REM

Ever since Android 4.4 Android developers try to make it as energy efficient as possible. That happened mainly because of the cheese slicer on the code of Android itself to get going. Android 6.0 will analyze installed apps to reduce their background processes. There is also a battery save mode to benefit from this. In Settings / Memory can a user see exactly how heavy all apps overload your system, short and long term. So you also have more insight into the performance and consumption and you know which apps your Android accelerate properly if you delete them.
Smartphones and tablets are equipped with bewegingssenoren. Android 6.0 converts it smarter to spare the battery. When the system notices that the machine is stationary on a table or a time is in the pocket, the ‘doze’ mode activated, a kind of deep form of standby.

System UI tuner

Android 6.0 has a small, hidden menu settings. In this example, you can display the remaining battery percentage in the notification window. You come here by the notification screen to bring down and keep the cog top right button. You will receive a message that the System UI tuner is available in the settings menu.

The Time

Additionally, Google has brought the operating system up to date with new features. For example, fingerprint scanners are supported so. There are already quite a few Android devices with a fingerprint scanner to unlock the device, but the software support should be developed by the manufacturer itself. Which is not always a good idea. As recently revealed that HTC did not take seriously the security and fingerprint data unencrypted store on the device – when a fingerprint is actually an immutable password. The developers of Android take it more seriously: the fingerprint is stored encrypted and nobody has access to it. But it has the added advantage that app developers have to build an additional security element in their application by the fingerprint scanner to speak (this of course without access to your fingerprint data). A nice addition, although to biometric security still are some snags. The security is as good as the quality of the scanner – with a PIN or password, you will be responsible itself makes

Another novelty is Android Pay, which like Samsung’s and Apple’s payment service works via NFC.. Just tap your phone against a payment terminal in the store and you’ve paid. Google is hardly the first with such a service, but drowsy is that Android Pay in the Netherlands temporarily unavailable.

Big absentees : Android Pay and still get Google Now

minor edits

When you have Android 6.0 looks for the first face you’ll see a lot of minor changes. . Selecting text to cut then, copy or paste is (finally) no more tears. The application list (app drawer) has become a vertical scroll list, people who use Android for a while know that even old versions. The automatic backup of apps has been given a much needed update. When you sign up a new (or restored to factory settings) device, not only your installed apps, app data are also included. The innovations in Google Now notice little in practice because most of this functionality simply not rolled out in the Netherlands.

The support for memory cards is also underway. Memory cards or attached external storage can be included in the main storage. As a result, for example, easier to install apps on memory cards.

Another useful feature that is worth mentioning is the Network Settings reset. Lets forget you’re in one fell swoop all of your known Wi-Fi networks. Sounds awkward, but it is useful to avoid getting hijacked traffic by a hacker who sets up a wireless network with a known name, such as WiFi on the train, McDonald’s or Starbucks.

At first sight there seems little changed on Android

Conclusion

The update to Android 6.0 makes. the operating system finally a lot safer, a catch that had to be made much earlier. Especially compared to competitor iOS. But it is far too short-sighted to call it a security, because the battery there is a huge noticeable difference and the Android version is full of small but useful innovations.