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this episode of Edward authority is brought to you by domain.com so let's talk marshmallow and all the improvements we hope it brings to our beloved Android now the number one thing especially for all as hardcore fans out there is customization while Android M offers such features as arranging quick toggles and having a possible dark theme it's still no match compared to custom roms theming and changes to the core look of the OS are nothing new to the rooting community in his time Google allows this deep customization in stock Android now number two is way overdue a better tablet UI Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich had a dedicated tablet UI which made the tablet and phone experience very different jelly bean unified the tablet and phone UI to look and act very similar while keeping them separate and lollipop basically made them indistinguishable this is a good and bad thing while the experience is now the same no matter what device you're using there are any special software features that make having a tablet worth wild which leads into our next section now number three is a big one if tablets are going to become a serious tool for productivity and that comes down to multitasking and RAM management multi window multitasking is nothing new for owners of smartphones that come with customized versions of Android like those from Samsung or LG but until now it has not been included in stock Android while still in the experimental stage this feature is now in the Android M Developer Preview it enables apps to be opened simultaneously in all four corners or two side by side the only problem is that it doesn't necessarily look good and closing apps in this way may reveal others that are behind it this can lead to a confusing experience which I'm hoping will be addressed in coming updates also the RAM management issues that should have been addressed in KitKat still exist today and without these issues being fixed multi window apps and heavy multitasking do not seem possible on stock Android just yet and can we talk better lockscreen and widgets Google introduced lock screen widgets in Android 4.2 and sort of remove them in lollipop swiping left or right now opens the camera or phone there's no option to add widgets and swipe between them like you could in jelly bean or KitKat however the notifications are actionable so there is still the ability to change songs and do anything that you could in the notification shade this method works but is not as pretty or as useful as it used to be having the ability to add widgets like in jelly bean or KitKat with actionable notifications would be a very nice improvement now a big issue really big is privacy and permissions a pops made a slight appearance in Android 4.3 jelly bean it let you control which apps you can take advantage of with permissions if you didn't want Facebook being able to see your location you could block the app from being able to do so unfortunately this feature was removed in Android 4.4.2 KitKat being able to control app permissions is a must-have and it would be a welcome addition to Android M or any future Android release and a big issue for the geek community is full backup and restore now this is nothing new in the root community one of the best things about being able to unlock or root the phone is the ability to install a custom recovery CWM recovery and TW RP both offer ways to make Android backups which back up the whole system in case something goes wrong this only takes a few clicks and the options provided are very customizable restoring it is also a breeze with just a few steps Google is getting closer with the ability to backup app data in Android M and the ability to add accounts and the home screen layout using tap and go this is relatively convenient compared to old versions of Android but it doesn't compare to a full system or store or a dedicated app like titanium backup now I know that this is a bit of a pipe dream but we would love the ability to remove bloatware without rooting our phone carrier branded devices are known to come with a lot of bloatware 18t installs apps and the double digits on branded devices and even the Nexus 6 when it came out AT&T is not the only one at fault however most of the carriers have come with some sort of bloatware that you can't get rid of no matter how hard you try unless of course you root your phone disabling the apps and settings will get rid of them in the app drawer and prevent them from doing anything but they still take up precious space on your device so what do you think am I missing something let me know in the comments below what you'd like to see in Android M so someone asked me the name of my website I told them and then they promptly forgot but they were able to find it because they assumed as 90% of the population does that there was a dot-com extension so they were able to find it without getting distracted going to someone else's website that's the power of a dot-com 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was entirely fair criticism as someone in my position that is part of my job a wearable to be worn if you think about that is redundant a wearable means something you are able to wear a wearable to be worn is then redundant that's like saying a drink to be drunk a car to drive a light to turn on it's ridiculous it's it doesn't mean anything what exactly does it mean and Huawei with their budget and size should have known that I don't know how that made it past their marketing department if they're filled with people who are not native English speakers and I realize if you're not a native English speaker that may seem kind of appropriate but it's not it's redundant it's absolutely horrible it's a very poor choice of words so I want to put that out there it was not racist because I'm not criticizing Chinese people I'm criticizing the marketing department that put that copy out let me know what you guys think in the comments below you don't forget about my brothers and sister Android 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