El Google I/O is in progress and the time has come when we have to talk about Android 9.0 P: we detail the most interesting that those of the search engine discover about the next big update that our smartphones and tablets will receive (or perhaps the one that will run the next one we buy).
What's new for Android 9.0: artificial intelligence, navigation gestures
If there is anything we are hearing about today in the Google I/O It is undoubtedly one of the advances that the seeker has made in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and this includes news from Android 9.0 P of which has been spoken on this occasion. For example, it will use what it knows about our habits (which apps we use the most at what times and similar issues) to control background consumption of apps and help us prolong the battery of our devices. Another example is a new automatic setting of the gloss which is going to be based on what the system is learning from how we adjust it manually.
The other great novelty of which they have spoken to us at the moment is the new control by gestures, something that does not take us by surprise because an accidentally filtered capture had put us on the trail of the changes that were being planned in Montain View in this sense: indeed, as that capture had shown us, the navigation bar is going to change a lot, with more prominence for the home button and with the disappearance of the multitasking button. From what we have seen in the demonstrations, from now on when we drag up from the home button, we will remove the multitasking screen (with an active view of the open apps), repeating the same gesture we go to the application drawer. And if instead of dragging up we do it to the right, we go to the apps that we have open.
News also in Google apps: Google Photos, Gmail, Google News ...
When we did a review yesterday we warned you that we would also see news for the apps of Google and the predictions on which would be the ones that would go on stage have been quite correct, although the reality is that the protagonism has been all here also in the background for the advances in Artificial Intelligence of Mountain View. For practically all the big apps in Google we are going to see new features (some will arrive in the next few weeks, others will take longer) based on the use of these new capabilities aimed basically at making us need fewer steps for the most frequent tasks.
The most prominent examples give us a good idea: gmail It will offer us options to complete our emails as we write, Google Photos you will be able to recognize people in photos and immediately suggest sharing them with them or suggest specific editing guidelines depending on the type of photo (such as coloring a photo in black and white), Google News (an app that has been completely renewed, as expected) will suggest new media, YouTube He will propose that we take a break when (depending on our habits) we are spending too much time hooked ... And, of course, Google Assistant it keeps getting better at recognizing the natural language we use with it, and we've seen demonstrations of how it can make calls for us.
And you can already take a look at Android 9.0 P without a Pixel
Although to test the new functions of the different apps we will have to wait for the corresponding updates, we end with good news for the most impatient (or curious), since it will be possible to take a look yourself at Android P and without having a Pixel: you just have to follow these explanations to sign up for the Android P beta program and install the second beta.