th just about two months to go until I/O, the Android 8.0 rumor mill is just about ready to start churning at full speed. And right on cue, 9to5 has the first report, with just enough juicy tidbits to whet our appetite for more.
Each version of Android seems to bring changes to notifications—most recently, Nougat delivered direct replies bundling— it looks like Android O will continue to tweak the system. But 9to5’s tipsters didn’t supply any specifics as to what will be new or different, though it infers from a separate Andromeda rumor that will involve syncing across devices, which would certainly be a welcome change.
The site has also been told that will be adding app icon badges for active notifications. There are already a few launchers manufacturer-specific skins that offer badges, but for some reason has resisted them in the pure version of Android. so, the site reports that is considering bringing picture-in-picture mode to Android O, like Apple added for the id in iOS 9. esumably this would be limited to tablets, but with phone screens getting bigger bigger, that might not necessarily be the case.
Another feature reportedly on tap for Android O is smart text selection. Earlier this month, VentureBeat described a feature called Copy ss that would be smart enough to remember the last thing you were doing without actually needing to mess around with text hles. For example, as the site explains, if you leave an Android Messages conversation to look up the address of something, Android O would automatically store the address from Chrome onto the clipboard, ready to paste it when you return to your conversation. The same rumor said that was looking to add the ability to recognize contextual items like addresses inside texts as well.
Further rumored enhancements for Android O include a Assistant-integrated toolbar widget, live icons (like the Calendar icon on the xel), low-power background apps, improvements to the MedaRecorder A, “tons of enterprise stuff.”
will presumably announce the next version of Android at its keynote presentation to kick off I/O, being held at the Shoreline Amphitheater from May 17-19.
’O’ really: ile there isn’t a ton of detail here, there is just enough in this report to get us excited about the next version of Android, which we have to assume will be called Oreo. Hiroshi ckheimer, senior vice president of all things Android, has already teased such a pairing on Twitter, earlier this year, the search giant cookie purveyor partnered on the Oreo Space Dunk mobile VR experience. But whatever it’s called, we can’t wait to see it.