In summer 2018
and most probably in the month of May Google is coming up with its
newer version of its android operating system Android P9. The work on
this operating system was going from last year after the launch of
Android Oreo 8. Till now the Google was branding this Operating
System as P9 but as per the media reports suggests that final
decision has been taken about the actual name of the operating system
as Pistachio Ice cream. There was buzz on Social Media about the name
of Operating system P9 about its final name and people were guessing
the name as Android Pineapple, Android Point and Android Pie and many
more.
This will be the
Thirteenth version of Android Operating system which as per the
Google policy to name its operating systems to sweet treats is also
named after the sweet treats i.e. Pistachio Ice Cream. The earlier
version named after sweet treats are Google Donut, Eclair, Froyo,
Ginger bread, Honeycomb, Ice cream sandwich, Jellybean, Kitkat,
Lollipop, Marsh Mallow, Nougat and Oreo Operating system.
With launch of
Pistachio 9.0 operating system Google is planning to take head on to
Apples I-Phone X in the market.
Although the Android 9.0 will be released probably in May 2018, it would be immediately available to all Android devices. Google Pixel devices will be the first to get the updates and then the phones with this operating system will arrive in the market sometime later after the first half of year 2018. Nokia with Vanilla interfaces will be the first to come up with the updates of the operating system 9.0 and then Samsung, Sony, LG and HTC will be rolling out this system in late 2018 or early 2019.
New Features
of Android OS 9.0
There is very
little news about what we can except from this Android version of
operating system. Though XDA suggests Google will remove access to
unofficial APIs and not very good news for the developers.
The changes which
we except to see in this version of Operating system as per some
reports on various sites are as under:
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Support for Wi-Fi Direct printing
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Support for Bluetooth hearing aids
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Better integration for Android Things
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New feature of smaller image file size like apple OS
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It will set to be adapted to support phones with ‘notch’ design as in the apple I-Phone X
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The upcoming OS 9.0 will also support fordable display as that in Galaxy X devices which have multiple displays.
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New feature of Faster rollout and less defragmentation among devices
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Improved Picture in Picture app support
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Further enhancement on battery life and performances
One of the Google’s key goals this year is to persuade more I-phone
users to switch to Android devices by improving the look of its
Android software.