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Show Notes
- Android O Preview
- The Files App now shows in the app drawer
- Granular Battery Usage is gone.
- Install source permission limited to user authorized apps
- Expandable quick settings only work when tapping the text, not the icon.
- Battery percentage inside the battery icon is no longer an option
- Status bar in Notification Shade gets a bit more dense.
- Custom Shortcuts can be added to the lockscreen via the UI Tuner
- Android might be getting native support for themes.
- Settings app has been completely overhauled
- Individual notifications can be snoozed for 15m, 30m, or 1hr.
- Home screen notification badges are now supported.
- Autofill API
- New background limits help save battery life
- Hardware keyboard improvements
- Support for aptX bluetooth streaming
- PiP for all devices and new windowing features
- Network Aware Networking mode for wifi
- Android News
- Shielding MAC addresses from stalkers is hard and Android fails miserably at it.
- Securing Your Devices: Android Year in Review
- Google Talk is dead, Hangouts is the new Slack, Project Fi users are screwed and everyone hates Allo
- Google to streamline Android Security Update Platform further, only about 50% of Devices get Patches
- App News
- Vudu’s mobile app can now do DVD to HD digital…$2 for a ‘like’ conversion, $5 to upgrade a DVD to an HD digital copy.
- Google Maps adds new improved parking spot saver.
- More news in Google News & Weather
- Nova Launcher beta includes ‘dynamic icons’ that pull badges from notification content
- Hangouts is losing SMS integration on May 22
- Google Duo getting an audio only option
- Location Sharing is coming back to Google Maps
- In Other News
- FedEx will give you $5 to support Flash.
- Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for 30000 misissued certificate
- Dig Once Bill could bring fiber internet to much of the US
- LastPass Security flaw responsibly disclosed and not yet patched.
- FCC Plan to let phone companies block more robocalls moves forward.
- Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court case on Toner Cartridges
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