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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy from android authority calm and in this quick video we're going to take a look at the Android M preview okay folks this video is going to be broken up into two parts part one will be the stuff I did see in part two will be the stuff I can't see but I know it's coming soon let's get right into it so real quick the first thing you'll notice is that Android M doesn't look all that different from lollipop it's more or less the same in the notification shade the home screens most apps and in the settings if you've used stock lollipop before you'll be able to easily find your way around some of the minor changes we noticed for some graphical changes in the app drawer to include letters for easier navigation hey Do Not Disturb button in the notification shade and the simplified volume which kind of melts all the various volume modes into one thing and it actually looks a bit more simple in the settings you can tap the Android version to get your background with a fairly nondescript m in the middle if you tap it a bunch of times a little dude will pop up all like I don't know what's going on I see what you did there Google no clues as to the name of Android app in the developer options you'll notice that you can now switch between a dark and a light theme this is handy although not the theme customization we were all hoping for I actually prefer the dark theme it's a little bit easier on the eyes well we're in the developer options you can now enable the system tuner which allows you to rearrange your notification quick settings including trashing them if you don't want them and you can always reset if you mess up to bat the new google now on tap is in the M preview kind of for those who don't know that now on tap is google now's new feature to ascertain what's going on and then give you suggestions based on that the functionality is there but the ability to use it is currently turned off for the time being they'll turn it on eventually i'm sure some other minor things you'll notice are some slight animation changes here and there keith myers on google+ noted that on the nexus 9 the notification shade will drop down in different places depending on where you slide it down for easier access with your thumbs little stuff like that is everywhere for what it's worth the new google photos application is in clue the Android M build in a weird role reversal Josh Vergara is actually going to take a look at that application in another video so keep an eye out for that it is there and it is freaking awesome the last thing I'll talk about here are the Apple Inc's during google i/o they talked about how applications will be able to take control of links to their content and automatically open their application for it this is kind of included in Android M as you can see this Twitter link goes directly to Twitter without asking me first and it's also there in the settings it's a small thing but it is there okay I'd lied there is one more thing there is a thing called ignore optimizations in the app section from what I can tell this allows applications to ignore battery saving optimizations and continue to function at full power it may be part of the doe's feature I'm not quite sure I do know that Google Play services is turned on and locked that way which I'm not happy about it all the google play store and download manager are also locked on here's the thing folks this is day one of the Developer Preview so there are some things there and some things that aren't Google will surely update over the course of the coming months as new features become available the api's are all there but no apps use them yet so it's kind of hard to look at the deeper features with that said let's get on to part two during my testing I wasn't able to check out the new permission system because it's not available just yet in this new permission system you won't agree to permissions when you install applications but you will agree to them when the application actually needs them and you can approve or deny them then however part of this system is in the preview you can go to the settings and check out which applications have which permissions and then turn them off from there so the back end is present just not the google play store part of it you can in fact deny app permissions without root in Android M another feature I looked for and couldn't find is the chrome custom tabs this is a built-in version of the Chrome browser that app developers can add to their applications so they don't have to build their own in-app browser while still retaining the features of google chrome during i oh they showed it on the Pinterest application as you can see the version I have access to still uses their custom and app browser so that's something we'll see as more developers support it unfortunately Android pay is not in the Developer Preview at least we couldn't find it the tat pay section is still in the settings but it's essentially empty there are any applications that use those features anyway so it makes sense that Android pay was not present while I'm on the topic I couldn't play with the fingerprint scanning capabilities either because they are also not included even if they had been my Nexus 5 doesn't have a scanner so I couldn't use it anyway that's something that'll probably come in a future release whether or not the power saving feature called dozes here is unknown to me currently I've had the preview installed for three hours now but the phone has been on the entire time so I haven't seen it yet more testing will be needed to see if it's even there even if it is it won't be all that useful for phones anyway it's really more of a tablets thing the last little bit that I couldn't find include the direct share and the new copy paste they mentioned in the i/o keynote it's still the old copy paste methods and if direct share is there I guess I haven't shared enough for it to pop up or it's simply not there yet that about does it for this video folks I'll leave you with one last thing and that is that the preview works really well I haven't had any system crashes or apps acting up except for the one thing with the system tuner I only installed about 20 applications so there are probably issues here and there that I don't know about yet but moving around the interface is pretty slick and I didn't find anything that warranted a mention if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe to android authority and don't forget to check out android authority combo will be covering as much android and stuff as we possibly can thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day