**Top 5 Features of Android P**

The latest version of Android, codenamed "Android P", has been released and it's packed with exciting new features that will enhance your mobile experience. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the top 5 features of Android P.

**1. Device Connectivity Display**

One of the most notable changes in Android P is the new way devices are displayed on the home screen. With Android P, all connected devices will show up as separate tiles on your home screen, making it easier to manage and connect with them. For example, if you have Bluetooth speakers or wireless headphones, they'll all appear as separate tiles on your home screen, allowing you to easily access and control them. We like this layout, as it's clean and easy to navigate.

**2. New Settings App**

Another significant change in Android P is the new Settings app. This is one of those features that seems to change with every new version of Android, but the developers have finally gotten it right. The new Settings app has a fresh design, with big round colorful icons that add some visual interest to the interface. However, once you dive deeper into the settings menus, everything looks familiar and unchanged. We're glad to see that the developers have aimed for a clean and minimalist look.

**3. Rounded UI Elements**

The new Settings app also features rounded UI elements, including the search bar at the top of the screen. This is a subtle but noticeable change, and it's not hard to see why some people might find it more visually appealing than traditional rectangular icons. However, for those who prefer a more traditional look, this might be a bit jarring.

**4. Developer Preview Features**

The Android P developer preview also includes some exciting new features that will be available in future versions of the operating system. One of these is the ability to simulate a notch at the top of the screen using different themes. This allows developers to test and optimize their apps for devices with notches, which are becoming increasingly popular. We're excited to see how this feature will evolve in future versions of Android.

**5. Notch Support**

Speaking of notches, Android P includes some features that support these new screens. One of the most notable is a virtual notch cut out on the top of the screen, which allows developers to test and optimize their apps for devices with notches. This feature is available in the developer preview version of Android P, but it's clear that the operating system will be getting more robust notch support in future versions.

**Other Features Worth Noting**

In addition to these top 5 features, there are a few other changes and additions worth mentioning. For example, when you have rotation lock on and then rotate the screen, you'll now see a button in the corner that allows you to manually rotate what you're doing. This is a handy feature for anyone who likes to use their phone as a tablet.

There's also now a built-in way to mark up screenshots, which is a great feature for anyone who wants to highlight something on a screenshot and share it with others. Additionally, battery saver mode can now be toggled automatically at any battery percentage between 5% and 70%, which is a welcome change for those of us who like to keep an eye on our battery levels.

Another new feature worth mentioning is lockdown mode, which disables fingerprint recognition and other smart unlock methods until you put in your pattern or pin. This is a bit of a redundant feature, but it's nice to know that the developers have added this option for users who want to add an extra layer of security to their phone.

Finally, text selection now has a suite zoom lens, which allows you to more precisely select text on your screen. This is a small but useful change that will make a big difference to anyone who spends a lot of time typing and editing text on their phone.

**Easter Egg**

As an Easter egg, the Android P developer preview includes a little surprise at the end of the settings menu: a virtual notch cut out on the top of the screen. This is a nod to the future of Android, and it's clear that the developers are already thinking about how the operating system will evolve in the coming months. With so many exciting changes and additions, we can't wait to see what Android P will bring when it's finally released.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what is up guys I'm kabhi HD here and welcome to a new version of android already this is Android P it's one of those incremental updates again new letter versions aren't those like massive drastic changes anymore like they used to be back in the day but that makes sense when they've been refining Android for so long they're kind of tweaking things at this point but that's never stopped us and we have the Developer Preview on this pixel too and it's worth noting that there are some actually pretty cool new things so these are the five biggest new feature changes to Android P so number one is the new visuals and there's just a couple smaller things it's just a general look and feel of a few tweaks you might not even notice them if I didn't point them out but first of all the clock is over to the left corner now it used to be on the right and still it changes color if you have a dark wallpaper it'll be a light clock if you have a light wallpaper it'll be dark and that's also along with all the buttons on the bottom the date and the weather the app drawer also now has this more defined dock instead of a gradient shade behind it so it's more obvious I think that may affect the way people make their wallpaper choice but again it's obviously pretty minor you might not notice but then the biggest main thing is these quick settings up at the top here everything is first of all in these circles now it's this blue and white look and really what you're gonna notice is this is definitely part of a larger theme here if you pay attention you're gonna start to notice a lot of rounded corners and smoothed off edges in Android P so number two is those quick settings and this is one of those things in Android that they always seem to tweak and like every new version they can't really make up their mind on how they want it to look so they've changed it again here so they have like I said these circles for everything and the new blue and white look that's also new with the color and then now if you have enough quick settings it's this vertically scrolling list now instead of a left-to-right paginate at UI and it has you know this big obvious bar at the bottom so it's generally a little bit cleaner and more obvious where things are at you know what I don't like though is you can't long press to expand these toggles anymore and I get that quick settings are supposed to be quick it's just a one press toggle but that was really useful if you had a bunch of Wi-Fi networks on you long pressed you could get in and explore them or a bunch of Bluetooth devices that's gone for some reason here I don't like that so if you long press and the settings in Android P here it just does what it did in older versions of Android which is just taking you back into the menu alright so number three is the new volume controls this is definitely my favorite change so far so first of all pressing the volume buttons adjusts the media volume by default so that's pretty sweet and you can see here it's in this bar over at the side now it's out of the way instead of that huge thing across the top it goes up and down instead of left to right so now it matches the volume button on the phone which is cool I think you could probably be a little bit smaller just this this whole bar UI is pretty big for just the volume but overall I like you being over here now and then there's this button at the bottom to switch between ringer modes so vibrate or silent or volume on and then that arrow at the top is to view your connected devices so if you have some Bluetooth speakers or if it's connected to your wireless headphones or your car bluetooth or something they'll all show up here so I'm I'm a fan of this layout and then number four is the new Settings app and again this is one of those things that seems to change in every new letter of Android but they've changed it again here so with Android P they got some color in there all the the icons are big round colorful circles on the side but it's not too cartoonish I mean every icon is a different color but then you get into the actual settings menus and they look the same as they were before so it's pretty clean and then up top again you'll notice the Settings search bar is this super huge rounded I don't know it seems like they've rounded every single corner possible mixed feelings about this generally I think it could look cleaner with rectangles but hey that's the way we're gone and then number 5 last but certainly not least is not support in the developer preview it's a little more of an indication of our future than it is a feature so if you go into settings and display and themes there is actually a couple different themes that simulate a notched at the top of the phone and so this is so developers can see what their app would look like on a phone that actually has a notch so they can see what the behavior looks like and make sure everything still works and it's laid out properly so there's a small narrow notch at the top like the essential phone might have or a medium one or even the big unibrow one like the iPhone 10 has so obviously it's it's weird to have a virtual notch cut out on the top of a phone that already has bezel x' but again this is a develop preview and this is a tool for developers to make their apps to support the phones that we know are coming that have notches in them remember there's already some Android phones coming out including the ones that already exist with a notch in the top does this embracing the knotch mean pixel too will have a notch no but it also doesn't mean pixel won't have enough I don't know that's just kind of where we're at right now welcome to 2018 but yeah that's the main gist of it those are the top five I told you it was a small update but uh in case you're curious here a couple of other interesting things worth noting that are also pretty useful so when you have rotation lock on in Android P and you rotate the display anyway it'll give you a little button in the corner just in case you want to manually rotate what you're doing this one time that is handy you can now mark up screenshots as soon as you take them that's built-in so I guess pretty much exactly what iOS just started doing now but it's a welcome addition battery saver mode can now be toggled on automatically at any battery percentage between five and seventy percent so for those of you who get paranoid with a half battery this will make you a little happier and there's also now something called lockdown mode which essentially will just disable your fingerprint reader and any other smart unlock method until you put in your pattern or pin again seems pretty pointless but if someone could in theory walk up behind you and put your finger on the fingerprint and run away they could get away with your info unless you have locked on mode on so again for those of you who are paranoid oh and text selection now has a suite zoom lens which lets you more precisely select text that is awesome and also an important behind-the-scenes change is that background apps cannot use the microphone or camera anymore or any of the sensors for that matter in Android P we had always wanted that to be a thing that we can individually control but now that's an OS wide thing again if we're paranoid we shouldn't be with Android pay Android paranoid is that the new probably not but that's basically it those are your your main changes with Android P mostly those little visual tweaks I think I like the changes for the most part except for I think those circles are gonna take me some time to get used to as far as the naming goes we don't know what the P stands for yet my money is on top look at this Easter Egg how could it not be peppermint with all those swirls in the Easter Egg it's got to be anyway I'm gonna link an Android police post below they do a great job of tearing through new versions of Android when they come out and digging through the code and finding literally every single new feature whether it's been enabled or not so if you're interested in the little stuff I'll link that below the like button but that's pretty much it how many what you guys think of the big stuff the new stuff thanks for watching talk to you the next one peacehey what is up guys I'm kabhi HD here and welcome to a new version of android already this is Android P it's one of those incremental updates again new letter versions aren't those like massive drastic changes anymore like they used to be back in the day but that makes sense when they've been refining Android for so long they're kind of tweaking things at this point but that's never stopped us and we have the Developer Preview on this pixel too and it's worth noting that there are some actually pretty cool new things so these are the five biggest new feature changes to Android P so number one is the new visuals and there's just a couple smaller things it's just a general look and feel of a few tweaks you might not even notice them if I didn't point them out but first of all the clock is over to the left corner now it used to be on the right and still it changes color if you have a dark wallpaper it'll be a light clock if you have a light wallpaper it'll be dark and that's also along with all the buttons on the bottom the date and the weather the app drawer also now has this more defined dock instead of a gradient shade behind it so it's more obvious I think that may affect the way people make their wallpaper choice but again it's obviously pretty minor you might not notice but then the biggest main thing is these quick settings up at the top here everything is first of all in these circles now it's this blue and white look and really what you're gonna notice is this is definitely part of a larger theme here if you pay attention you're gonna start to notice a lot of rounded corners and smoothed off edges in Android P so number two is those quick settings and this is one of those things in Android that they always seem to tweak and like every new version they can't really make up their mind on how they want it to look so they've changed it again here so they have like I said these circles for everything and the new blue and white look that's also new with the color and then now if you have enough quick settings it's this vertically scrolling list now instead of a left-to-right paginate at UI and it has you know this big obvious bar at the bottom so it's generally a little bit cleaner and more obvious where things are at you know what I don't like though is you can't long press to expand these toggles anymore and I get that quick settings are supposed to be quick it's just a one press toggle but that was really useful if you had a bunch of Wi-Fi networks on you long pressed you could get in and explore them or a bunch of Bluetooth devices that's gone for some reason here I don't like that so if you long press and the settings in Android P here it just does what it did in older versions of Android which is just taking you back into the menu alright so number three is the new volume controls this is definitely my favorite change so far so first of all pressing the volume buttons adjusts the media volume by default so that's pretty sweet and you can see here it's in this bar over at the side now it's out of the way instead of that huge thing across the top it goes up and down instead of left to right so now it matches the volume button on the phone which is cool I think you could probably be a little bit smaller just this this whole bar UI is pretty big for just the volume but overall I like you being over here now and then there's this button at the bottom to switch between ringer modes so vibrate or silent or volume on and then that arrow at the top is to view your connected devices so if you have some Bluetooth speakers or if it's connected to your wireless headphones or your car bluetooth or something they'll all show up here so I'm I'm a fan of this layout and then number four is the new Settings app and again this is one of those things that seems to change in every new letter of Android but they've changed it again here so with Android P they got some color in there all the the icons are big round colorful circles on the side but it's not too cartoonish I mean every icon is a different color but then you get into the actual settings menus and they look the same as they were before so it's pretty clean and then up top again you'll notice the Settings search bar is this super huge rounded I don't know it seems like they've rounded every single corner possible mixed feelings about this generally I think it could look cleaner with rectangles but hey that's the way we're gone and then number 5 last but certainly not least is not support in the developer preview it's a little more of an indication of our future than it is a feature so if you go into settings and display and themes there is actually a couple different themes that simulate a notched at the top of the phone and so this is so developers can see what their app would look like on a phone that actually has a notch so they can see what the behavior looks like and make sure everything still works and it's laid out properly so there's a small narrow notch at the top like the essential phone might have or a medium one or even the big unibrow one like the iPhone 10 has so obviously it's it's weird to have a virtual notch cut out on the top of a phone that already has bezel x' but again this is a develop preview and this is a tool for developers to make their apps to support the phones that we know are coming that have notches in them remember there's already some Android phones coming out including the ones that already exist with a notch in the top does this embracing the knotch mean pixel too will have a notch no but it also doesn't mean pixel won't have enough I don't know that's just kind of where we're at right now welcome to 2018 but yeah that's the main gist of it those are the top five I told you it was a small update but uh in case you're curious here a couple of other interesting things worth noting that are also pretty useful so when you have rotation lock on in Android P and you rotate the display anyway it'll give you a little button in the corner just in case you want to manually rotate what you're doing this one time that is handy you can now mark up screenshots as soon as you take them that's built-in so I guess pretty much exactly what iOS just started doing now but it's a welcome addition battery saver mode can now be toggled on automatically at any battery percentage between five and seventy percent so for those of you who get paranoid with a half battery this will make you a little happier and there's also now something called lockdown mode which essentially will just disable your fingerprint reader and any other smart unlock method until you put in your pattern or pin again seems pretty pointless but if someone could in theory walk up behind you and put your finger on the fingerprint and run away they could get away with your info unless you have locked on mode on so again for those of you who are paranoid oh and text selection now has a suite zoom lens which lets you more precisely select text that is awesome and also an important behind-the-scenes change is that background apps cannot use the microphone or camera anymore or any of the sensors for that matter in Android P we had always wanted that to be a thing that we can individually control but now that's an OS wide thing again if we're paranoid we shouldn't be with Android pay Android paranoid is that the new probably not but that's basically it those are your your main changes with Android P mostly those little visual tweaks I think I like the changes for the most part except for I think those circles are gonna take me some time to get used to as far as the naming goes we don't know what the P stands for yet my money is on top look at this Easter Egg how could it not be peppermint with all those swirls in the Easter Egg it's got to be anyway I'm gonna link an Android police post below they do a great job of tearing through new versions of Android when they come out and digging through the code and finding literally every single new feature whether it's been enabled or not so if you're interested in the little stuff I'll link that below the like button but that's pretty much it how many what you guys think of the big stuff the new stuff thanks for watching talk to you the next one peace\n"