Android 8.0 Features Tipped: Here’s some features we can aspect.

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Android operating system has received a major update every year since 2012, so we expect to see Android 8.0 this year. While 2016’s Android 7.0 Nougat added split-screen mode and direct reply to messages, we’re hearing that this year’s update will add more features that make the OS more efficient to use, and also a candy codename.

Google has been developing new assistive features for its Android mobile operating system.The features might or might not make their debut in the next version of Android, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat.

Google’s working on a feature called Copy Less that would let the operating system automatically copy data to your clipboard in order to save you the time of selecting text and hitting copy. It’s unclear whether the feature would be added to Google’s standard-issue Gboard virtual keyboard app or Android itself.

Accordingly,for instance, if you and a friend are having a conversation in a chat about where to eat dinner and you find a good restaurant in the Yelp app, when you go back to your conversation and type “it’s at,” one automatically generated suggestion in Gboard would be the restaurant’s address. You can just tap it, and the keyboard will populate the text box with the address, which you can send with the send button — instead of using Android’s pointers for copying just the right amount of text in Yelp and then pasting in the messaging app.

Some of the updates could help Google catch up with Apple, which has started enhancing its iOS apps with artificial intelligence, just as Google has done on Android.

Android 8 could also give messaging apps the power to identify addresses in text and let you tap on them to open them in the maps app. But it’s unclear as to whether this would be restricted to the Android Messages app or be made available to all of the operating system’s messaging apps.

The absence of this feature is something of a mystery, as iOS users have had it for several years.

The same source told VentureBeat that Google’s developed a feature that lets gestures trigger actions in Android. An example listed suggests drawing the letter C onscreen could bring up a list of your recent contacts.

Google is expected to unveil Android O at its I/O developer conference in May and then release it in the fall following multiple developer previews.Last year, a developer version of Android 7.0 was released in March, while May’s I/O conference featured a more formal unveiling of the update.

Google’s Senior Vice President of Android Hiroshi Lockheimer has teased that Android 8, which would be Android O, could be codenamed after a popular sandwich cookie recently through a tweet. 

Google will definitely release the Andriod 8.0 first to its own phone brand Pixel and older Nexus phones.

Let us wait till May for the developer conference or before to find out what Andriod 8.0 has in store for us. 

Source:VentureBeats

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