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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by domain.com hey what's going on guys the Markman sangin from TechnoBuffalo and Google i/o has come and gone headlined by the announcement of Android M we did a video in Google's new OS shortly after it came out which will leave a link down below this video but today we'll be showing you guys five features secret features that Google didn't show off during a keynote number one on our list is the dark and light theme Google's overall UI has been steadily getting brighter and brighter with a move to a white system theme in Android lollipop luckily Android M now offers an option to switch between a light and dark theme the theme option inside developers option has settings for light which is the default dark and automatic if you enable dark mode all the settings screens will switch over to material dark and as far as we can tell it doesn't affect any other apps or any part of the device also we're not entirely sure what automatic setting does but we're assuming it'll somehow switch from light to dark at a predetermined time like at night keep in mind that this is a Developer Preview so what we're showing you right now could be scrapped altogether hopefully we'll see this in the final release and Google if you're watching this please keep this feature number two is to turn on or off doze on a per app basis one of Google's big projects for Android M is battery optimization and it's doing this by implementing a new feature called doze that essentially puts unneeded apps into an ultra low power state those should be smart enough to wake apps up when they have a high priority action and perform so even if your alarm app has been dozing it'll still work however if you want a certain app to ignore doze and want it to run in the background at all times you can disable doze on a per app basis by heading into settings battery ignore optimizations and going into all apps it's a nice feature to have though we don't really see an advantage for this feature just yet number three on our list is the new RAM manager Android does a pretty decent job of managing its memory but unfortunately it doesn't really show you what app is using the most RAM and Android M there's a new brand manager that shows a detailed overview of what apps are always running and how much memory an app uses on average here you can check up on what app is eating all the memory and you can of course stop or for stop the app if you're experiencing slowdowns now to get to this page you can head on over to the Settings app going into apps tap three dots at the top going into advance and going to memory number four on our list is do not disturb mode during Google i/o Google highlighted two simplified volume controls which now brings up the volume slider with an arrow that expands the menu to give you controls over alarms notifications and media separately one thing that Google didn't talk about is the addition of do not disturb mode DND first arrived with Android L though the final version of lollipop refer to this functionality as priority interruptions DMD and Android M pretty much offers the same basic functionality as previous interruption options but there's a few interesting changes as well including a new repeat callers option that lets the caller through if they call back within 15 minutes and automatic rules that give you some basic options of when to turn on do not disturb mode automatically you like on the weekends weeknights or during weekly meetings you can enable do not disturb mode by either holding the volume button down or toggling it through the quick settings menu now to access the new D in these settings you can head on over to sounds and notifications and go into do not disturb let me stop the video real fast and thank our friends over at domain.com it's the place to go when the next great idea hits you so one-stop shopping for all your domain names and web hosting email needs domain want to hook our 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an app and disable peaking and that's about it Android M is of course still in beta so everything that we showed you today could potentially be scrapped we're still playing around with Android m and if we notice any other major changes we'll be sure to keep you guys in the loop if you guys enjoy this video make sure to give it a thumbs up and we will see you guys in the next one Oh