Gadgetory

another year another new Android release and boy this time ever fly it seems we've worked our way all the way down to Q the 17th letter of the alphabet and the first one that I can't think of a single desert name for so if you guys come up with something post it down in the comments please for now the official name of the new mobile OS from Google will remain a mystery regardless of how sweet sounding it ends up being though there should be a boatload of new features to enjoy once it actually starts getting pushed out to our phones so let's have a look at some of the highlights grabbing and sharing a screenshot has been easy for years but it's been a lot trickier to actually record what's happening on your screen if you need to send a video of something funny or instructional now Apple has supported screen recording natively since iOS 11 but on Android we've had to rely on third party apps we'll know more Android hue will feature a native option to capture your display now it's unclear whether you might have to go into the developer options to enable it or not but either way it should be a very useful feature another very overdue change is the ability to alter accent colors now I personally don't think there's anything displeasing about the default blue but Android cue will let you change key UI elements to black green and purple in the beta and there might be more colors on the way also if you don't like the new-school circular icons for apps and whatnot you can switch them back to rounded squares or even teardrops if that tickles your fancy speaking of fancy if you've ever wanted to use certain Android services on your desktop because you strongly prefer a keyboard to mashing your sausage-like fingers against the little tiny screen Android q is going to make that a bit easier by providing a desktop mode natively so if you connect your phone to a monitor you'll get an interface that's much more mouse and keyboard friendly so you can finally use chat snap without tons of spelling errors or at least without the unintentional ones perhaps the most useful feature though will be how android cue lets you share your Wi-Fi connection quickly and easily I'm sure many of you are familiar with the hassle of having a friend over and they ask for your Wi-Fi password and you don't remember cuz it's been 18 months since you typed in your own bloody Wi-Fi password and then you got to go find that convoluted string of characters and they can check back well that sucks but Android Q can just display a special QR code that another phone can scan to instantly connect to the same Wi-Fi network no messy passwords required if you're one of those people who doesn't think Wi-Fi passwords are that complicated and your concerns are more with the camera though you might like this one Android Q is going to have built-in support for a picture format called dynamic depth which will map out what it believes is the proper depth information for whatever the camera sees so that apps can produce more and better bokeh effects as well as even 3d images on supported Hardware finally if you're extra exclusive and you have a foldable phone Android Q will provide better native support for these devices including allowing two apps to run side by side when the phone is unfolded with instant switching when you fold it back up and of course there are hosts of smaller extras too if you slide down the notification tray you'll see that the battery indicator will give you an estimated time when your battery will die so you won't have to just rely on a percentage privacy gets an overhaul with Android Q allowing you to specify exactly when apps can use information instead of constantly sharing data like your location in the background and they've added easier access to relevant settings without having to leave the app that you're using so in summary q is shaping up to be a nice little update to make your device quite a bit more interesting which is all the more reason that I 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