The two biggest news of Android M not been presented … – Hypertext

He said yesterday that Android M is not a major update of the operating system of Google. What great is said to have been two in history, ICS and Lollipop. Nevertheless, he said that Android users M bring more satisfaction than those obtained with these two so new versions. And I say again. Having a nice and homogeneous system long ago in the face of experience, but what really determines is convenience, and this give you the pure functions. And that for me is the two largest and most beneficial News Android M have not been shown in the presentation.

Auto Backup for application data

I can say without doubt that I have five years waiting for this day, and last year I asked already. Terminal change much, and although the activation process has improved over time, I can not say I have to hand insert all the data in the applications is fast and pleasant process. Android has long been a backup system, but its implementation by developers is not easy.

Although it has gone unnoticed, backup can be the star feature Android M

The backup on Android M is a reality. Comes an automatic system whose greatest virtue is to be as compatible with applications that today can be downloaded from the Play Store, which means that developers do not have to modify code necessarily. The backup process is done daily when the device is idle, connected to the stream and a Wi-Fi network. Each application can use up to 25 MB for backup to Google Drive , but these data do not occupy user space, unlike Apple with iCloud solution. It can run both when we activate a terminal as when uninstalled and re-install an application.

For developers, there is some evidence, such as those in external storage, which are excluded from the backup, so in certain cases if there is to schedule. Also noteworthy it is that application data will be encrypted . I leave here are two screenshots taken by +supercurio showing backup settings:

Multi Window

The real surprise. came to Android with the Galaxy Note , and is increasingly extended to other brands, as for example with LG. However, Google has never shown much interest in implementing it (Cyanogen tried to do in their custom ROMs and Google threatened to banearles the Play Store , which attempt remained in words).

Still, he had found some evidence that the multi-window coming to Android officially end, and so it proved. It is not found in the preview released yesterday or accessible to the user, developer itself in the emulator settings. This suggests that is still under development , as permits, hidden under the name 4.3 App Ops. A Reddit user has changed some details in your Nexus 6 and has managed to make it run, and she says, has enough functionality. We were waiting for Google to formalize, although it could still take a long time.