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What Can You Expect from the Newly Released Android 10

Your primer for the new Android 10 is right here

What Can You Expect from the Newly Released Android 10

Codenamed Android Q during the development and beta testing period, Google has finally released the much-awaited Android 10 for smartphones. Quite surprisingly, this is the first time in the last 10 years that the company has not named its operating system after a dessert. Still, its features are just as sweet as they can be.

 

Now that Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is also here, this is indeed high-time for Google to be releasing the new version of its signature operating system. Based on our tests, it looks like Google has taken gesture navigation quite seriously in this new version.

Furthermore, an all-out dark mode has been released as a feature specific to the new Android 10. This feature allows you to apply the ‘dark mode’ to both the applications (in case you allow it) and the system UI. Previously, this feature was also present in the Android 9 Pie. However, it was only applicable to a limited number of user interface elements such as menus and the settings panel. Nevertheless, on Android 10, dark mode is on by default in the battery-saving mode.

 

Google and Apple both have been competing really hard in terms of accessibility. For instance, recently, Google rolled out the Live Transcribe feature in its Google Pixel phones. This feature transcribes the audio in your immediate environment, live as it is being heard. Now, it has released the Live Captioning feature, which is somewhat different from Live transcribe. In Live captioning, the text gets applied to videos that are prerecorded.

Android 10 is going to feature yet notable feature known as the Focus mode. This feature will simply allow you to select the most distracting applications, and pause all the notifications from these applications. Essentially, it is designed to help you increase your focus (such as when studying or working).

A number of security and privacy features have also been rolled out with the Android 10! For instance, now you can select location tracking only when a particular application is open on the screen. Otherwise, the location tracking will stay off. In comparison, Apple is bringing out the location-tracking guardrails which provide ‘allow once’ permission options to users.