Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by nsriv » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC

Introducing Android 9 Pie
android-developers.googleblog.com

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by mikeevans » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

Interesting that the Digital Wellbeing features that were teased at IO aren't being launched today, but part of _another_ beta that you have to opt in to. (And Pixel series only?)

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by stephengillie » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

What happened to the "3rd party brand" naming convention? No payday for PayDay?

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by mmastrac » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:45 PM UTC

One of the quieter features of Android 9 is that they are reducing the API surface of Android by explicitly black-listing and white-listing various APIs and fields that previously required reflection to access. None of these APIs were documented, but none of them were explicitly "off limits" before Android P.

That suggests that the life of Java as Android's primary language might be really coming to an end, even though Android is very much a platform built on Java/C++ at its core.

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by abhiminator » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:46 PM UTC

Surprised with the naming, did Google just miss a great opportunity for collaborating with candy manufacturers like they did with Nestle for Android 4.4 'KitKat'?

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by unethical_ban » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:46 PM UTC

* It looks like they've taken away the "apps" homerow button and swapped it for "swipe up from anywhere". So that is one less gesture available to apps, unless you install an alternative desktop.

* Wi-Fi RTT sounds pretty neat, I had not heard of that before.

* Shutting mic, camera and sensor data off for idle/background apps is neat, though I'm shocked that wasn't an option before.

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by DennisAleynikov » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:46 PM UTC

I'm no longer surprised that Samsung doesn't feel the need to update to the latest version of Android! Grace UX (their skin) already had all of these features as of last year. I do not see anything worth upgrading for here.

Potentially huge for people buying the notched phones. The support for that did improve in this update.

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by tjungblut » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

abhiminator wrote: post #5

Surprised with the naming, did Google just miss a great opportunity for collaborating with candy manufacturers like they did with Nestle for Android 4.4 'KitKat'?

me too, but what would be a world-renowned candy that starts with 'P'?

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by jkaplowitz » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

abhiminator wrote: post #5

Surprised with the naming, did Google just miss a great opportunity for collaborating with candy manufacturers like they did with Nestle for Android 4.4 'KitKat'?

Only KitKat and Oreo have been branded. The rest have been generic dessert names.

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by mikeevans » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

tjungblut wrote: post #8

abhiminator wrote: post #5

Surprised with the naming, did Google just miss a great opportunity for collaborating with candy manufacturers like they did with Nestle for Android 4.4 'KitKat'?

me too, but what would be a world-renowned candy that starts with 'P'?

Pez?