From InfoWorld: Forging ahead with its bread-and-butter mobile platform, Google is offering a developer preview of its upcoming Android M OS, which focuses on improvements in areas ranging from app permissions to mobile payments.
With Android M, Google is focusing on six areas to improve the core user experience, including changing app permissions to give users more choice in control of the data and hardware that apps access. "We're greatly simplifying app permissions to smaller set of easily understood things," like microphone and location, said Dave Burke, Google's vice president of engineering, at the Google I/O conference yesterday.
Also with Android M, Google is standardizing support for fingerprints, which could be used to authorize mobile payment transactions or unlock the device. Developers can use fingerprint APIs for their own applications as well.
In the upcoming release, Android will get smarter in managing power via a feature called Doze. Motion detection determines if a device has been left alone for a long time, and app refresh pace is traded off for longer battery life, though the device still can respond to incoming chat requests.
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