Gadgetory

google i/o 2015 started today and at the keynote much to nobody's surprise they showed us Android M the version of the Android operating system that's following Android L which we found out was called lollipop we still don't know what M is going to be called but we do know that a developer preview is now available and we've got it running on our Nexus 6 this is our Nexus 6 that we bought through the google play store and as you can tell we've got a tmobile sim plugged in however this is not the t-mobile version of the phone good thing though we do have t mobile Wi-Fi calling baked into this image so let's go ahead and unlock this and see what we've got we've gone ahead and set everything up already the setup process is almost identical to Android lollipop so you're not missing out on anything they're looking right here we've got android version em just like android version l did when it was a developer preview and this is building number m p z for 4q so let's take a look i have done virtually nothing to this this is just set up and restore from my account so I've gone ahead and said okay to Google now and it's all set up my widgets were automatically put in place all of my other stuff here has automatically downloaded and installed so let's go right into our app drawer where you're going to see the first change up at top you'll see the the recent or commonly used I don't know exactly what that is yet but it could be the most frequently used apps or it could be just the app that you opened a little bit more recently than the others this has been updating as I've been using it so I don't know if over time this will stabilize and it'll become your top four most commonly used apps or if it's just going to be the last four apps that you used but nonetheless there it is your apps are now organized into alphabetical order which is very nice and in my opinion long overdue you can also come in and search your apps so if you want to you know what it's called you just can't find it for some reason like my Wi-Fi analyzer right there really really helpful to jump right to what you're looking for new so you could tell that was pretty snappy that alphabetical stuff carries over as well to the widgets so if you do this you can see here that there's no kind of ABC on the side but it is alphabetically ordered and the widgets for each one of them are included here and you can scroll side to side you want to see what else is in there so we'll go ahead and open up YouTube and we'll go through this the first time I've run this so let's go ahead and look at san andreas so here's that video come over into landscape mode and now let's go ahead and adjust the volume so here it thinks that this is media volume that I'm adjusting which I am there's muted a lot more responsive than what we're used to with lollipop but the other thing is if you'll notice there's a down arrow that shows me my alarms my notifications and the media all right there and then I can close that so it's still trying to be smart you'll also notice that this is the active color and then the others are gray but as soon as I switch over to that it switches to to highlight that so you can tell which one you're adjusting just because it's the one that's got the focus color set on it next up we saw Android pay showed off today at the the keynote however there is no Android pay on the device and Google Wallet is the only thing that comes up when we search for android pay so we'll probably have to wait to see that until a little bit later on next up let's go to our notification shade one thing that's new is a do not disturb mode so you can tap on that and it will bring up do not disturb for whatever you want to set it to it for until you turn it off or for a specific amount of time that you can change you can also jump into more settings you can go into total silence or priority mode and there are some hints and tips in there that tells you what each one of those means so really nice the way that they've done that we got to wait and see how it plays out in practice to see if there's really any improvement there another thing that was mentioned in today's keynote is some improved copy and paste abilities so here are some of the notes that I took today it's just a text file I'm going to long press and if I can stay in one place on the page you can see that long press selected the word that I was pressing on and now i've got this floating bar that i can select all copy share or some overflow buttons i can do a web search and whatnot on it if i want but i don't want just that word so let's drag this out and you can see it's snapping to wherever I am so it snaps two words by pull down it snaps two lines so a lot better a lot faster than you know what we've had in the past one of the other things that we saw about Android M was the new permissions manager and how apps can have various permissions that you can turn on and off now I don't have any here that I've been able to see and if you notice that says show and hide legacy you come back in here to security I think this is where we're going to see them when you sort by permission type right here in security and down underneath apps with usage access again my list is empty reason for that as far as I can tell is we were told in the keynote that for apps to take advantage of this new app security model where it asks for permission to access in a location or text messaging or something like that it'll ask at the time that it's requesting that permission rather than it install well to do that the app has to be compiled against the new M SDK the Android M software developer kit and it doesn't look like I have any of those apps installed so I can't show you that here that will come over time of course but it's one of the features that I really really like really want and can't show it to you right now this is an early preview I've had my fair share of problems I've already had a few crashes I don't think this can be my daily driver but I didn't have Wi-Fi calling before and I do now so I'm really kind of tempted to to keep this at least for the time being and see how we do and see if I can't just live with some of those crashes what's your favorite thing about Android M make sure you go down to the comments and let us know of course follow us on your favorite social networks we are on all of them at pocket now I'm at Joe Levi thanks very much for watching give the video a thumbs up if you liked it if you haven't subscribed we've got lots more Android M related stuff coming you won't want to miss out on that subscribing is the best way to stay in touch for pocket now I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching