Android 6.0 Review – Marshmallow

Android Lollipop was the biggest change in Android OS. It was not only the user facing and visual but also a lot of APIs and developer facing changes. After that The Google announcing their latest update in Android OS the Marshmallow. Now we are talking about some features of Marshmallow.

What’s new in Marshmallow?

Doze Mode

Marshmallow is having a new key feature for saving their device’s battery life. Google calls it ‘Doze Mode’. When you are not using your phone the ‘Doze Mode’ puts your device in deep sleep mode. If your device in your pocket or on your desk and actually it is untouched by you than the device determines by its accelerometer that it’s not using. Then the device switches into Doze Mode where most of applications will be silenced to save its batter life.  You will get your important notifications even your phone is in Doze mode.

Google Now on Tap

‘Google Now’ was started to Android in 2012. But now it is more improved and added features to Google Now. It is Google’s attempt to answer before even the users needed to ask them. Questions like what time is it? Is it good weather to go outside? But the latest update of Google Now is ‘Now on Tap’.  In the previews version of Android ‘Google Now’ start with simply long press in home button. But in latest update of Google Now you get a ‘G’ icon to start Now on Tap after activating it.

Fingerprint API

It was the Desired one for the Android users to have fingerprint reader API in their phone. At last the latest version of Android Marshmallow 6.0 is having that desired fingerprint feature for their user. Android Marshmallow users can enjoy that Google’s fingerprint API. Google’s New fingerprint API allows secure and reliable fingerprint readers into their phones much easier.

Chrome Custom Tabs

Finally, the Marshmallow comes with Chrome Custom Tabs. The developers can easily customize their content with chrome custom tabs. Plus, you get 3 times faster at loading web pages than browsers that utilize WebView. When you click on a link or feed it’ll opened with Chrome Custom Tabs and it pretty great. And you get this features in latest version of Android the Marshmallow.

Notification and Volume Controls

In the latest version of Android OS is Marshmallow bring a great change on their Volume Controls. There you can see the media volume, notification volume and alarm volume in volume panel. And now there a tiny little arrow placed on the right of the panel. Tapping this arrow, you can modify all of the different volume levels.  Also the “Do Not Disturb” setting gratefully improved in Marshmallow.

App Permissions

Though Android has app permission system for their previews version but in the latest version of Android Marshmallow improve their App Permission segment. It was the irritating to take an extra step to install a app from play store. Now in Marshmallow, Android users no longer need to approve to install a app from play store.  After installing the application users can define which are accessed by app or not and it can be instant or later.

Text Selection

The Marshmallow bring the bigger change in Text Selection task. When you select some text and highlight a floating   toolbar will be pop up with the options “Select all”, “copy” and “share”. Also there have a toolbar as a menu button that placed on right side of pop up menu includes contextual options such as a share or insert link depending on the text you have highlighted.

Direct Share

The Marshmallow users can easily share their photo or text directly via their app or contact list. You are getting more facility of sharing experience in Marshmallow. In Direct Share you are getting ability to not only share something such a photo or data with another app, but with individual contacts within a certain app.

Adoptable Storage

Before in Android, users were able to move certain over to the SD card from internal storage. It was very limited for some powered users. There was no way to move private app data to SD card from internal storage. But Marshmallow’s adoptable storage resolves this problem by formatting any SD card then using it the same as internal storage.

Overall the latest update of Android the Marshmallow is a great update to Android and it deserves to be praised for that. There will be some issue that are still google can’t define, but great hope is that if it points out some issue then Google finds solutions those issues as sooner as maybe in Android ‘N’.