Android P Thread

Google's Android P is all about notches and notifications
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-android-p-is-all-about-notches-and-notifications/
The search giant’s new mobile software -- right now only a preview version -- also brings upgrades in security and indoor mapping.

Google is preparing its Android mobile software for something Apple popularized with its iPhone X -- the notch. That's the little cutout at the top of phones with screens that take up almost the whole handset.
The search giant on Wednesday announced Android P, the next generation of its mobile operating system. And one of the biggest changes in the software is Google's catering to those cutouts. Because, well, the notches are coming. Both Huawei and LG are also rumored to have phones with notches on the way.

Android is the dominant mobile software on the planet, powering 85 percent of smartphones shipped globally, according to IDC. So Google's big focus on notches signals a change in where hardware design is headed.

Right now, Android P is still unfinished. It's only in preview mode and meant to give software developers a leg up before Google officially releases it.

At this point it's anyone's guess what the P will stand for. Google typically names its new flavors of Android alphabetically and after something sugary. For example, the previous Android version was called Oreo. Before that was Nougat, then Marshmallow. So Google is hoping its newest Android version will make using your phone easy as ... pie?

Still, not every phone maker is going notch crazy. Samsung, the biggest Android device maker on the planet, has opted to avoid notches in its devices. Last year's Galaxy S8 -- which hit the market about eight months before the iPhone X -- featured a screen that stretched across the entire front of the display. And this year's Galaxy S9 is the same. "As always, there's no notch," Justin Denison, Samsung Electronics America's senior vice president of product strategy and marketing, said during the company's Unpacked Galaxy S9 launch in Barcelona.

Aside from optimizing for notches, here's what else is new:
Notifications are getting an upgrade. Now you'll be able to see images in notifications, something that could help you more quickly tell who you're chatting with. You'll also have the option to use Smart Replies, Google's AI-powered responses to texts that are already available in Gmail and its chat app Allo.
Android P also allows for indoor mapping, like if you're in an airport or conference hall. That feature could have a potential impact for retailers and other vendors who want to lead you to a specific product in a store.

The software also focuses on improving battery life and making the phone more secure. Now Android will restrict access to your phone's microphone and camera while apps are running in the background, which could keep bad actors and hackers at bay. Android P also should make it easier for third-party password managers to autofill usernames and passwords. That's important given how many of us are turning to utilities like LastPass, 1Password and BitWarden to help bring a little order to our password chaos.
But while Google is introducing all these new features, it has one major challenge: making sure people actually get to use them. That's because Android's got several different hardware and carrier partners that like to add their own flourishes to the software, so getting them all to update to the current version is a constant headache for Google. It's a problem the industry calls "fragmentation."
As of the last month, only 1.1 percent of Android users are on the current version of the software, Oreo. The vast majority of them, more than 81 percent, are on three previous versions: Nougat, Marshmallow, and Lollipop.
The oldest of those, Lollipop, was first released in 2014. By comparison, Apple's got 65 percent of users on iOS 11, the most current version of its software for iPhones and iPads.
This version of Android is specifically for software developers, but the company will detail the features in more depth at its annual software developer conference, Google I/O, in May.

 

It baffles me that android manifacturers always manage to copy the worst that apple does. First was low to no repairability and no battery swapping, then no headphone jack and now this ugly useless thing. That an entire android release would be concentrated mainly on this whole notch melodrama is mind-boggling. Seems overall like a fairly weak release with the usual "something something lower battery consumption something better performance something" that are rarely ever noticed in practice.

 

Very little number of smartphones even adopted Android O...

 

Yes you are right, but they announce the new Android to give the developers the chance to innovate and use all the new functions.

 

Very difficult to compare between Apple and Google, completely different Ecosystem schools. Apple Ecosystem is so closed with very high walls, no one can get out of it, at the other side Google Ecosystem is the most opened one, you can use it almost anywhere. Each one of them has it's advantage and disadvantage.

 

Google is pissing on the community. With this iOSification of Android. The below Quick Settings UI is changed massively, they don't animate anymore just that blue highlight and nerfed that UI completely (check below) like Apple's Kid friendly UI..

Spoiler: Android vs iOS image

Icons are irreparably damaged as well since Nougat..Duarte was responsible for the Material Design but he's not the one leading the team anymore and thus we have this murder of Android to blandness and stupidity.

Spoiler: Icons

Two quotes, Second one is mine showing all the regressions to the Android.
Article is from Ars

Why does every one need to follow the damn Apple ? BGA thin and light, Notched phones, loss of headphone jack. Android OS itself, Microsoft Surface targeting dumb users with that Windows 10...I don't like this direction we are headed nor the damn Apple corporation focusing on the marketing and stupidity.

 

Looks to me a lot more like Touchwiz (now Samsung Experience) than iOS, specifically, the version that shipped with the S7 Edge, before the Note 7's aesthetic redesign and subsequent updates to the S7 Edge. It's got circles around the toggles, yes, but with the opaqueness of Samsung as opposed to the blurred transparency that Apple focuses on nowadays.

 

android should take minimally if not at all from IOS.

 

The State of Bezels! (2018)

 

Android P better not integrate and codify the Apple Notch.

I can't believe the Apple Notch is being copied, it's the worst UI blunder in a long time, and needs to disappear by the next generation of Apple and Android phones that have it

Reviewers should start measuring the "usable" screen space starting under the Notch, at the point of side to side full screen coverage, as I suspect that makers are measuring from the top of the Notch corners.

The top to bottom of the Notch black area, side to side, should be called the Status Bar, or some such, as it's not usable screen space.

 

They are all trying to make the ultimate Bezel Less phone, but not yet. Only Vivo concept did that with many concerns about durability and practicality.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/vivo-apex-concept-phone.814026/

 

That's why I am hopeful this Notch-gate crap will be gone within a generation, with through the screen fingerprint reading and camera pixel integration. It may take a full year, but at least I can enjoy my "notch-less" S7 Edge in the meantime.

Another reason to get the iPhone 8's or better screen coverage Samsung 9 and 9+, and wait out the era of the Notch.

 

And google doing a good job to go with the market step by step, and give the developer all tools to innovate,
The hidden futuristic technologies already their in their pipelines, but they just want to slowly get all our $$$ first .

 

Android P: Exploring Android 9.0 + what it means for Google Pixel 3

 

Top 5 Android P Features!

 

I don't get what Google is thinking. A dock is supposed to look neat, complementing your wallpaper, not add a massive shade over it. More light colours everywhere for increased OLED battery consumption and burn-in? How will this look on 16:9 screens? Putting the large search-pill below the app row already looked maladroit to me. Why dumb down quick-tiles (long-press removed), making them less quick, while adding granular control to the volume pop-up?

I wouldn't be too worried about Android supporting notches natively. Phone makers will still go the direction they feel is right in terms of hardware, and supporting all the variations out there as best as possible has always been Google's mission. Just because the Essential PH-1, LG G7, Huawei P20, Asus ZenFone 5, and Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S have notches doesn't mean all future phones will. It's important for the OS and its apps to be adaptable to common screen variations. Even the iPhone X can struggle in that regard.

 

They already knows about almost everything coming in the future, they have so deep communications with their partners as I guess. Don't forget that's only an early version for developers and testing purposes, and they can change/modify it and add or remove functions.

 

Oh yes, and I wasn't saying we wouldn't see more notched phones. A notchpocalypse is hopefully a stretch though... I would raise an eyebrow if it turns out as popular as ditching the headphone jack, another "feature" that similarly receives bad press. I'm also aware that the developer preview is indeed for developers to get a leg-up on development before the update reaches consumers. Just as with previous iterations, Google will make changes and I'm curious to see how much of the initial feedback they take to heart this time.

 

LineageOS cheif developer allready said, androidP is a revamped androidO, a thing happend similiarly between androidL and androidM.

And the worst of the worst, the new P wont support dual bios(Bootloader+recovery config that traditionally all manufacturers used), meaning for a guy like me who roots phones and uses a custom rom always, things are going to get pretty ****ty

 

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There has been a continuous rise in the smart phone users mainly due to the increased adoption of mobile services such as mobile apps and websites in all sectors; hence it has resulted in propelling the growth of smart phone operating system market. Simultaneously user friendly service provided by the operating system has resulted in gaining more popularity thereby enhancing the market growth. For instance Android is regarded as the most users friendly and popular operating system and hold about 80% share in the mobile operating system market followed by Apple iOS and others.

 

Android P developer version: What we know so far

As the fiscal year comes to an end, and companies make way into the new year, Google has dished out the latest offering in the form of a developer version of its new cellular operating system. Android P, as its is being called as of now, has got the tech community all excited. Heres what we know so far. Google has released this version strictly for developers and this is in no position to run the daily driver version of your smart mobile device. Now that the disclaimer has been put forward, let analyse the basics.

In the user interface department, structurally no major change is being seen on the OS. Its more of a “Look and Feel” upgrade we reckon. Notification system has been tweaked. Message notifications now show the last messages and give the user an ability to “quick reply” in the notification drop down itself. Settings menu is cleaner and crispier than before. Icons in the settings tab get colour. Quick settings menu corners are rounded. Volume slider menu shifts from top of the screen to a vertical bar in the middle side screen position. So do the silent/vibrate buttons and the power on and off tab on the screen.

From a UI standpoint, the topic that is being discussed the most is on screen notch. Following the footsteps of the mighty X from Apple, Google gives its UI a “customisable notch” on screen, depending on the Android device one might use in the future. And that is going to be a regular in the phones that get released this year. The Android P can be customised to have a notch as small as the one seen on the Essential Phone to as big as the Apple X itself.

Software updates though, being as less as they are, disappoint at some level. There have been radical improvements in the years past. The biggest disappointment though is, the Android P still doesn’t support multi window like the one Oxygen OS supports on the One Plus 5 and 5T. But maybe they are still working on it. However, there is a screen rotation on “use by use” option. So even if your phone is set to portrait mode, you can tilt and activate “rotate screen” for certain apps like youtube etc.

Android P comes with a built in support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) VP9 Profile 2. In addition to that, it provides support for HEIF image encoding formats, because I guess folks at Google have made up their mind about JPEG format getting obsolete in the near future.

Another big feature in the brand new OS, is the Indoor Positioning System with WiFi RTT which is accurate to locating the device about a couple of meters in terms of precision GPS. But in all honestly, since this system uses WiFi triangulation, for users in India, they will struggle with this feature, given the low band infrastructure they are forced to operate the device and internet on it.

Other API upgrades are, built in Image Decoder for Bitmaps, Animations etc. but mostly that is for Application designers & developers, for whom this version has been launched in the first place.

Security wise there, seem to have been some radical steps taken by Google. The most talked about feature is that the P will block out access to sensors, microphone and camera to applications running in the background. Conspiracy theorists can now take a breather. Additionally, the P will also fake MAC addresses when you are connected to a public WiFi, thereby making it difficult for someone to trace you and hack into your details. The upgraded security will also protect the UDI information better, which will deter bogus transactions and frauds on the platforms like Google Playstore, Google Music, etc.

Connectivity has been beefed up as well. This new OS allows you to connect 5 different Bluetooth Audio devices to your phone simultaneously.

All in all, it looks promising. A step in the new direction if you must. But since this is a developer version, and the first DV in a line of many DVs to be realised in the coming months, there will be additions and subtractions to this OS. Google says the final product will be available for the end user, sometime in the third Quarter this year. And it will be first seen in the Pixel line up. But we are sure that a lot of deadlines and targets would have changed in the next six months and there might even be a release for Nexus variants by then as well.

 

Android P: Cheat sheet
Google's Android P is rumored to include security upgrades, a multi-camera API, a notch, and much more. Here's what developers, businesses, and users need to know about Android 9.0.

Android is the most widely used mobile platform on the planet. With over 80% of global mobile market share, it seems nothing can stop Google's operating system.

Since the release of Android 7.0 (Android Nougat), the platform has been one of the most reliable, flexible, user-friendly, and powerful OSes in the mobile landscape. Recent reports indicate that Android users are more loyal to their mobile OS than iPhone users, and Google has put its platform in a perfect position to continue its current trajectory. Android 9.0 (aka Android P—the name of the latest iteration has yet to be announced) should go a very long way in solidifying Google's position at the top of the mobile heap.

Read this Android P cheat sheet to get up to speed on Google's latest offering. We'll update this resource periodically when there is new information about Android P.

What is Android P?
Android P (Android 9.0) will be the next Android OS released from Google. Since the initial release of Android, Google has used names of various desserts for the platform. These are the names that Google has used for Android versions. (Before its release, Android 1.1 was called Petit Four internally.)

• Android 1.5: Android Cupcake
• Android 1.6: Android Donut
• Android 2.0 - 2.1: Android Eclair
• Android 2.2 - 2.2.3: Android Froyo
• Android 2.3 - 2.3.7: Android Gingerbread
• Android 3.0 - 3.2.6: Android Honeycomb
• Android 4.0 - 4.0.4: Android Ice Cream Sandwich
• Android 4.1 - 4.3.1: Android Jelly Bean
• Android 4.4 - 4.4.4: Android KitKat
• Android 5.0 - 5.1.1: Android Lollipop
• Android 6.0 - 6.0.1: Android Marshmallow
• Android 7.0 - 7.1.2: Android Nougat
• Android: 8.0 - 8.1: Android Oreo

 

Peanut butter cup!

 

But... dessert... how could Google Skip "Pie" ??

 

What kind of pie?

 

Targ Pie, with Unlimited Data.

 

The pie, has to be filled with something starting with P or it don't work. Peanut butter cup is going to be it's name.

 

I really can't believe you are arguing against "Pie" as a dessert name for Android, there can't possibly be a better name, well, maybe "Parfait"

Qualifying the flavor of the dessert name "Pie" doesn't fly either, check the previous Android names, many can be multiple flavors, and are names that refer to the dessert name generically:

• Android 1.5: Android Cupcake
• Android 1.6: Android Donut
• Android 2.0 - 2.1: Android Eclair
• Android 2.2 - 2.2.3: Android Froyo
• Android 4.0 - 4.0.4: Android Ice Cream Sandwich
• Android 4.1 - 4.3.1: Android Jelly Bean
• Android 5.0 - 5.1.1: Android Lollipop
• Android 6.0 - 6.0.1: Android Marshmallow
• Android 7.0 - 7.1.2: Android Nougat
• Android: 8.0 - 8.1: Android Oreo

Even "Oreo" comes in many flavors:

Spoiler: Wow!!, that's a lot of flavors!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreo_varieties
Other flavors[edit]

Peanut butter and chocolate Oreos

• Android Oreo, special cross promotional Oreo cookie with Google Android logo on one side and "green" flavoring.[6][7]
• Chocolate Oreo
• Coconut Delight Oreo, introduced in Indonesia.
• Strawberry Milkshake Oreo, introduced in Canada, and sold for a limited time in the United States, is an Oreo cookie with strawberry flavoring.[8]
  • Strawberry Oreo, introduced in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore.
• Green Tea Oreo, introduced in China and Japan.[9]
• Lemon Ice Oreo, introduced in Japan.
• Organic Oreo, introduced in 2006, are plain Oreo cookies made with organic flour and organic sugar.
• Blueberry Ice Creme Oreo, introduced in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia in 2010. Also sold in Thailand and China.[9]
• Orange Ice Cream Oreo, introduced in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in 2011.
• Golden Oreo, introduced in Indonesia in 2011. Oreo's chocolate cookies replaced by milk-flavored cookies
  • Double Stuf Golden Oreo, introduced in late August 2009. As the name indicates they are Double Stuf Oreo cookies with Golden Oreo biscuits instead of normal chocolate Oreo biscuits.
  • Golden Oreo series have vanilla biscuits with other fillings such as vanilla and chocolate as Uh-Oh Oreo until its re-branding in 2007. Introduced in Indonesia in 2011 with cookies and creme.
  • Oreo Heads or Tails have vanilla creme filling with a chocolate Oreo wafer on one side and a Golden Oreo wafer on the other.
  • Creamsicle Oreo have vanilla and orange creme filling with vanilla Oreo wafers.
  • Ice Cream Oreo Rainbow Shure Bert have rainbow sherbet filling with vanilla Oreo wafers.
• Oreo DQ Blizzard Creme, a limited edition Oreo released in April–May 2010, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Dairy Queen Blizzard
• Double Delight Oreo, introduced in 1987, have chocolate cookies with two fillings, notably peanut butter and chocolate, mint and creme, and coffee and creme flavors.
  • Also there are ongoing fruit series: orange and mango, raspberry and blueberry, grape and peach in China.
• Cool Mint Creme Oreo are a Double Stuf Oreo with a slight minty creme filling.[10]
• Peanut Butter Oreo are a Double Stuf Oreo with a peanut buttery creme filling.
• Pure Milk Chocolate Covered Mint Oreo are similar to Milk Chocolate Oreo but have a mint-flavored filling.
• Banana Split Creme Oreo with a light yellow banana flavor filling, were available for a limited time in 2008.
• Brownie Batter Oreo introduced in August 2015, two chocolate cookies with brownie batter flavored creme filling.
• Sugar Free Oreo, introduced in 2006, cost over twice as much as regular Oreo cookies, and had only trace amounts of sugar, 10 fewer calories per serving, 0.5 grams more fat and 450% more fiber.[11]
• Reduced Fat Oreo, introduced in 2006, cost the same as regular Oreo cookies, had as much sugar, 10 fewer calories per serving, about 35% less fat and the same amount of fiber.[11]
• During springtime, around Halloween, and Christmas, special edition "Double Stuf Oreo" cookies are produced with colored frosting reflecting the current holiday (blue or yellow, orange, and red or green respectively). Also, one side of each seasonal cookie is stamped with an appropriate design: the spring cookies feature flowers, butterflies, etc., and the Hallowe'en Oreos bear a jack o'lantern, ghost, cat, flock of bats, and/or broom-riding witch.
• Chocolate and Dulce de leche Oreo, sold in Chile and Argentina, has chocolate or Dulce de Leche instead of the usual creme.
• Oreo cookies with red creme, introduced in 2010, as a promotion for the movie How To Train Your Dragon
• Birthday Cake Oreo cookies were a limited-edition release in February–July 2012 to celebrate Oreo's 100th birthday, made up of two chocolate Oreo cookies with a birthday-cake flavored filling and sprinkles inside. This edition replaced the traditional design on one of the two cookies with a birthday candle and the words "OREO 100". The flavor has been reintroduced, with "double stuff" amount of creme filling, in both chocolate and golden Oreo varieties, except that the cookies no longer display the "OREO 100" print.[12][13]
• Birthday Cake Oreo - Fudge Dipped Vanilla were a limited-edition release in February–July 2012 to celebrate Oreo's 100th birthday, made up of one vanilla Oreo cookie with a birthday-cake flavored filling and sprinkles inside. The cookie and frosting are then dipped in fudge so that the entire cookie is covered.
• Candy Cane Oreo was first released for the holidays in 2012, later returning as Peppermint Oreo in the years following.
• Candy Corn Oreo cookies are a Halloween-related flavor, made up of two golden Oreo cookies with a flavored filling that was half yellow and half orange. They were a limited edition release in 2012 that returned in 2013. They made another return in 2016 at Target stores only.
• Gingerbread Oreo cookies were a limited edition release made up of two golden Oreo cookies with a mild gingerbread flavored filling.
• The American Creme were a limited edition release in 2012 made up of two golden Oreo cookies with red-and-blue colored creme.[14]
• Berry Oreo cookies were made up chocolate cookies with berry flavored filling.
• Lemon Twist Oreo cookies were a limited edition release in 2012 that returned in 2013, made up of two golden Oreo cookies with a lemon flavored filling.
• Neapolitan Oreo cookies were a limited edition release in 2012, made up of three golden Oreo cookies with a double sandwich of chocolate and strawberry creme fillings.
• Prime Berry Creme Oreo was released on June 27, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. They consisted of the usual two cookies, in between which was a layer of blueberry Ice Cream-flavored filling. They were inspired by the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction[15]
• Ice Cream Rainbow Sure, Bert! Oreo cookies were a limited edition release in 2013, made up of two golden Oreo cookies with a double stuf-thickness layer of tri-color raspberry and lime sherbet flavor creme filling.
• Watermelon Oreo cookies were a limited edition release for the summer of 2013, consisting of two golden Oreo cookies with watermelon-flavoured filling.[16]
• Strawberries n' Creme cookies were a limited edition release in 2013, made up of two golden Oreo cookies with a creme consisting of two halves, one strawberry-flavored and one similar to traditional oreo creme.[14]
• Banana Split Oreo cookies were a limited edition release in fall 2013, made up of one golden and one chocolate Oreo, with a double stuf-thickness layer of strawberry and banana flavor creme filling.[17]
• Limeade Oreo released in 2014, two vanilla cookies with a lime flavored creme inside.[18]
• SpongeBob Oreo limited edition release in 2014, featuring chocolate cookies with yellow creme and one side of each cookie donning a SpongeBob SquarePants character design.[19]
• Fruit Punch Oreo limited edition release in 2014, featuring vanilla cookies with fruit punch flavored creme.
• Cookie Dough Oreo limited edition release in March 2014, featuring chocolate cookies with cookie dough flavored creme.[20]
• Caramel Apple Oreo limited edition release in August 2014 exclusively at Target stores, featuring vanilla cookies with caramel apple flavored creme.[21]
• Pumpkin Spice Oreo limited edition release in September 2014. Golden Oreo cookies with pumpkin spice flavored filling.
• Red Velvet Oreo limited edition release in February 2015. Red Oreo cookies with creme cheese flavored filling.
• Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Oreo, introduced in May 2014, similar to peanut butter Oreos, but with half peanut butter and chocolate filling.
• Cotton Candy Oreo limited edition release in April 2015 exclusively at Target stores, made of two golden Oreo cookies with cotton candy flavored pink and blue creme filling.
• S'Mores Oreo limited edition release in May 2015, made of two graham flavored Oreo cookies filled with both chocolate and marshmallow flavored creme.[22]
• Root Beer Float limited edition release in July 2014, made of two gold Oreo Cookies filled with root beer flavored creme.
• Key Lime Pie limited edition release in July 2015, made of two graham flavored Oreo cookies filled with key lime creme.
• Marshmallow Crispy limited edition release in March 2014, made of two gold Oreo Cookies filled with marshmallow flavored creme and rice crispies.
• Cookies & Creme limited edition release in July 2015, featuring chocolate cookies with cookies & creme ice cream flavored filling.
• Toasted Coconut Oreo limited edition release in September 2015, featuring vanilla cookies with toasted coconut flavored creme and flakes of toasted coconut.
• Oreo soft cookies - sold in Japan, soft cookies with various flavors, eg [23] chestnut, Matcha green tea, lemon cheesecake, Blueberry cheesecake, vanilla
• Oreo Thins, released in 2015, are thin versions of these cookies. They come in chocolate, golden, mint, chocolate creme, lemon and tiramisu kinds.
• Cinnamon Bun Oreos limited edition released January 2016, featuring distinct cinnamon cookies and "frosting flavored creme." [24]
• Filled Cupcake Oreos limited edition released February 8 2016, with chocolate cookies and a ring of chocolate creme with a dollop of vanilla creme in the center, similar to the Hostess CupCake.[25] The cookie can be removed allowing one to lick the filling out of the center. [26]
• Fruity Crisps Oreo limited edition released June 2016, featuring vanilla cookies with a creme interspersed with fruit-flavored "colorful rice crisps" similar to Fruity Pebbles (but without the Post brand name.[27]
• Blueberry Pie Oreo limited edition released June 2016, featuring vanilla cookies with "Blueberry Pie" flavored creme. Originally distributed exclusively through Target.[27]
• Chocolate Strawberry Oreo spotted in December 2016, featuring "chocolate creme that surrounds a strawberry center." [28]
• Swedish Fish Oreo released in August 2016 combined chocolate cookies with creme flavored to resemble the red-colored Swedish Fish candy. Originally released exclusively through Kroger stores.[29]
• Peeps Oreo limited edition release in February 2017, made of two vanilla cookies filled with "Marshmallow Peeps flavored creme"[30]
• Firework Oreo limited edition release in May 2017,The cookies appear to be the original chocolate Oreo with vanilla creme filling, but the filling has bits of red and blue popping candy throughout [31]
• Mississippi Mud Pie Oreo limited edition release in May 2017,The cookies are a mix of Oreo's chocolate creme filling with a lighter whipped creme. Exclusive to Dollar General stores[32]
• Jelly Donut Oreo limited edition release in May 2017, using golden Oreo cookies with a ring of vanilla creme with a dollop of jelly-flavored creme in the center
• Waffles & Syrup Oreo limited edition release in May 2017, using golden Oreo cookies with a ring of vanilla creme with a dollop of maple-flavored creme in the center
• Dunkin' Donuts Mocha Oreo limited edition release in July 2017, using chocolate Oreo cookies and mocha flavored creme filling.[33]
• PB&J Oreo limited edition release in August 2017, using golden Oreo cookies with both peanut butter flavored creme and jelly flavored creme
• Cookie Butter Oreo limited edition release in September 2017, using graham-flavored Oreo cookies with cookie butter-flavored creme
• Apple Pie Oreo limited edition release in September 2017, using graham-flavored Oreo cookies with apple pie-flavored creme
• Mystery Oreo, released in October 2017, contains a chocolate cookie with a mystery flavor filling. It had a contest on what the flavor was, until December 2017.. it was confirmed to be Fruity Pebbles Oreos as the mystery flavor.
• Chocolate Hazelnut Oreo, Spicy Hot Cinnamon Oreo and "Hot Cocoa Oreo" are three different flavors that were released on January 1, 2018.

Coming Soon, new limited flavors including Cherry Cola Oreo, Kettle Corn Oreo and Pina Colada Oreo thins are planned for a May 2018 release.

 

Look at the naming scheme. Every version the FIRST word is the next in the letter series. É clair, F royo, G ingerbread, H oneycomb, I ce cream sandwich, J elly bean, K itkat, L ollipop, M arshmallow etc.....

There for it has to be something like P ecan Pie. Pie alone will not do it. There are hundreds of sandwiches. But in order to have the android sandwich it had to be ICE cream sandwich. Because it was android I.

see?

 

Is it that important how the new version of Android will be called?

 

FRIGGIN RIGHT!

If you don't see the humor in this conversation, then, there's no hope. ha ha ha!

 

Android P hands-on: Google’s most ambitious update

 

"Do you know what those are? That’s right, they’re popsicles. Do you know what popsicles are? That’s right, they’re desserts. So, either Android P going to be called “Android Popsicle” when it’s released this fall, or Google just trolled all its Instagram followers (and the rest of us) with the least subtle misdirection the company has ever employed. Only time will tell. In the meantime, you can learn about the biggest Android P changes Google has announced so far in this post."
http://bgr.com/2018/04/13/google-android-p-update-latest-android-version-name/

ANDROID P NEWS
http://bgr.com/tag/android-p/
http://bgr.com/google/

 

Android P Gestures vs. iPhone X: What's the difference?

 

I dont know if this has been done, but i want each app to remember it`s screen brightness and volume level as i am sick of having to adjust when i switch between my video player and my music player as an example.

John.

 

Wow. SMH. I should have figured that POPSICLE was the obvious choice. Probably because I was eating a peanut butter cup when I was thinking of naming. Ha ha. Popsicle is ideal, colorful, yummy, easy to use!

 

Which can be done through a 3rd party deamon app. Reasonably designed it should be almost as efficient as a native OS feature.

Why screen brightness though? Once the lighting chances (which happens a lot with a phone) you'll have to manually change the setting for every app you use. Do you want a two-layer brightness settings system with a global brightness value multiplied by an app-specific one?

 

(Properly coded) smartphone video player app should have a separate brightness setting a priori (which plays around OS brightness setting, of course).

 

Android P as Fast As Possible

 

Android P Beta 2 includes 157 new emoji and has gender-neutral options
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17435622/google-android-p-beta-2-new-emoji-gender-neutral-options

 

Android P Beta 2 and final APIs!
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/06/android-p-beta-2-and-final-apis.html

 

Android P Beta Devices
https://developer.android.com/preview/devices/

 

Android P Beta 2 (DP3): What's new in Android 9.0 June 2018 Preview

 

Samsung Good Lock 2018 Review - Android P 9.0 Features!

 

Google releases ‘near-final’ Android P beta
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/2/17527196/android-p-beta-3-early-release-candidate-released

 

Android P Beta 3 (DP4): What's new in Android 9.0 July 2018 Preview

 

Android P Beta 3: Dark Mode Is Here!

 

Google Fuchsia could replace Android and Chrome OS in the next five years (Update: Maybe not)

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...d-in-five-years-update-google-says-no.821309/

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-fuchsia-os-android-chrome-replacement-887812/

 

This "update" is exactly like so many others I've seen, they put it out there that they are "working on it", and then pull back from committing to shipping it.

Update, 07/19/18 at 2:43 p.m. ET: Google hasn’t completely denied that it’s working on replacing Android, but it did debunk Bloomberg’s timeline. The company reached out to CNET to confirm that there is no five year plan to replace Android with Fuchsia.

 

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