Google Announces Android 9 Pie, powered by AI for a Smarter and Simpler Experience

Google has finally released the latest Android 9 Pie operating system for Android mobile phones. It is highly powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and makes your phone more smarter, simpler and more customized as per your preferences. Google releases Android 9 Pie officially on 6th Aug 2018.  Google has built Android 9 to learn from you and to work better for you as more and more you use it. Some of its highlights are:- predicting your next task so that you can start the action quickly, prioritizing battery power for the apps you use most, helping you disconnect from your phone at the end of the day. Android 9 takes care of your health and adapts to your life and the ways you like to use your phone using lots of AI.
Therefore, it is also a good opportunity for any Android App Creator to use these newly launched AI features in the Android 9 Pie platform and develop more smart, interactive, simpler and amazing Android apps for the users.

Customized to You

Android 9 makes your phone more smarter by learning from you and adapting to your usage patterns. That’s why Android 9 has features like Adaptive Battery, which learns itself which apps your use the most and then prioritizes battery for them. Other feature is Adaptive Brightness, which learns how you like to set the brightness in different settings and implements it for you.
Android 9 Pie also helps you get things done much faster with App Actions which predicts what you will want to do next based on your context and displays that action for your right on your phone.  For example, let’s say it is Monday morning and you are preparing to go to work. Then you will be suggested actions like navigating to work on Google Maps or resume an audio with Google Play Book. And when you on the speakers after work, you may see options to call your wife or start your favorite song. Google has plans to launch more such features later this year.
Intelligent app creator will certainly use these new feature to build AI powered apps to make life of user smarter.

Making Things Much Easier

Although Google always trying hard to make your Android phone more smarter and more adaptive but it also want Android to be more easier to use and more approachable. Therefore, in Android 9 Pie, Google has introduced a new system navigation which has a single home button. This feature is very helpful as after long usage of phone it becomes more difficult to get things done on your phone with one hand. With a single, clean home button, you can swipe up to see a newly designed overview, the place where at a glance you have full screen preview of your recently used apps. You can swipe up from anywhere to see full screen previews of recently used apps and just you need to tap to come back to one of them. Now you can also enable a setting in system navigation in Settings to enable Smart Text Selection. It is useful if you find yourself constantly switching between apps on your Android phone. It recognizes the meaning of the text you are selecting and then suggests relevant actions.

There are many more changes which have simplified the usage of Android phones. For example, look at this one : Changing how you navigate your phone is big thing and even small changes can make a big different. Android P brings a redesigned “quick settings”, a much better way to take and edit screenshots, simplified volume controls, an easier way to manage notifications and more. You will find that these small changes in the Android platform help to make things much easier.

Features Supporting Good Health and Well Being

There is a lot of demand from App Developer to develop such mobile apps which support good health and well-being. There is no doubt that using phone is very useful but many of us want we could disconnect with it more easily and free up some of our time for other healthier things.  Hence Google worked to add key capabilities into Android to help people in achieving the balance with technology which they are looking for.
At Google I/O in May, Google previewed some of these digital wellbeing features for Android, including a new Dashboard which helps you to understand how you are spending your time on your Android device, an App Timer which lets you set time limits on app usage and highlights the icon on your home screen when the time is up, the new Do Not Disturb feature which silences all of the visual interruptions which pop up on your screen, the Wind Down which switches on the Night Light and Do Not Disturb and fades the screen to grayscale before you goes to sleep at the bedtime.

Digital Wellbeing will be officially launched on Pixel Phones later this year but these features are available now in beta for Pixel phones running Android 9.

More Inbuilt Security Features  

Improving the security has always been the important priority for Google. In Android 9 Pie, Google has hardened the platform and improved security model for biometrics. Android 9 also enables industry leading hardware security capabilities to allow protecting sensitive data like credit card information using a secure and dedicated chip. Android 9 also brings important privacy improvements like TLS by default and DNS over TLS to help protect all Internet communications and keeps them private and safe.

Conclusion

Android is the flagship platform and operating system for mobile phones created by Google. Google has been doing lots of research in AI and related technologies and now is the right time to use AI to launch many new features. Therefore, Google has incorporated AI into the Android 9 Pie and released many features which makes the user experience more smarter, simpler, healthier and more secure.