Android 8.0 Oreo: Rumored features and updates

James Falconer

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Post your rumored features and updates for Android O right here. It's all a bit fuzzy at the moment but as we get closer we should have a better picture of what we're looking at. New notification system and badges for app icons are a couple of the features I've heard about so far.

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Re: Android O: Rumored features and updates

There are a couple features that I've heard about. The first one is "Copy Less" and here is how it could potentially work:

If you and a friend are having a conversation in a chat about where to eat dinner and you find a good restaurant in the Yelp app, when you go back to your conversation and type “it’s at,” one automatically generated suggestion in Gboard would be the restaurant’s address.”

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The second feature which I'm very interested to try out is called "Improved gestures". So maybe we can draw the letter 'A' and open up AndroidCentral? :D

Today you can quickly call up your contacts using Ok Google, but in Android O you will be able to draw onscreen the letter C to open your contacts menu

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The third one I've heard about is 'Picture In Picture". So you could grab and move a small video screen around your screen and watch it while tying a text or thing like that :)

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I think Nougat is feature packed already and 'Oreo' (working title) is more of a refinement over Nougat. :)

What do you guys think?

Would you use the above 3 features?
 

anon(10181084)

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Re: Android O: Rumored features and updates

These features look quite cool , but using them is not exactly the most practical thing (in my opinion). I cannot wait for the day I get to taste Android 8.0 O(reo), but google seems to be implementing these things to ENSURE that Android O runs sluggishly on weaker devices (these features are such a waste of CPU cycles and RAM ). No offense, but I think google should be focusing on useful features such as combining multiple internet connections and making Android more efficient.
 

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Lol. Fix the text message notifications and I'll be a happy camper. Put it back on the individual and not the conversation and I'll be done.
 

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