Tuesday, August 30, 2016

11 things you can do in Android Nougat and before you could not – Gizmodo in Spanish

Android 7.0 has begun to reach the Nexus devices around the world, and sometime during the next few months will reach other devices brands. Whether that you’ve already installed on your phone, or you’re waiting for your update, these are some of the new features you’ll want to take advantage of. Here are 11 things you can do with Android Nougat and before could not.




run two applications simultaneously on the screen

Finally the split screen mode has come to Android, allowing you to run two applications simultaneously on your screen. This is very useful in the tablets, but also works great on smartphones

Go to the multitasking view by pressing the button with a square in the lower right corner.; there you just have to click on an application and throw it to the top (or left) of the screen, and throw one on the bottom (or right) side.

If you hold down your finger on the black bar which lies between the two applications you can adjust the screen space that have occupied each application. But if you drag it all the way to the top (or right) side return to normal view of a single application, or you can also do this by holding down the button multitasking.




Salta quickly one app to another

This is a minor feature but also quite useful. If you touch the button twice multitasking (the square) you can jump to the application that you used before, and if you ever touch twice will return to the original application.




Enjoy more battery life

“Doze” was one of the most important features in Marshmallow, as allowed conserve battery power by putting your mobile and your apps in a low power mode when detected that you were not using (eg, to be located on a table). Apps in general were updated less frequently, which extended mobile battery.

But with Nougat the Doze system has become more intelligent, since now know when you’re not using your phone, even when you take bouncing back and forth in your purse or pocket.

as before you can exclude your favorite or essential applications Doze from the section “Battery” in the setup menu Android. There press the button shaped three points in the upper right corner of the screen and access “Optimizing Battery”.




Get many more details in your settings

the Android settings menu Nougat has been renovated and now displays important information directly on the home screen, so you do not have to access the menus. It is another small but very useful change.

Now you will see details about the status of your battery, volume, free storage capacity, the WiFi network to which you are connected and the amount of memory that your mobile .’re currently using


Customize your Quick settings menu

The menu Quick settings is a very important part of Android, and upgrade to version 7.0 of the mobile operating system Google gives you more control than ever in terms of appearance and personalization.

access the settings panel fast sliding two fingers from the top of the screen down, and press the button “Edit”. There you can select which applications you want to see this menu by pressing and holding your finger on the icon and drag it to where you want to locate.

You will notice that some adjustments will always remain at the top of the Notification Panel, which will allow (for example) you can activate or deactivate the “Do not Disturb” faster than ever.

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Add your emergency information to the lock screen

This feature has been available for iOS for some time, but finally came to Android Nougat hand. The idea is that if someone takes your mobile know who to call (and can do) without unlocking the screen.

To set this you must access the settings menu and there the section “Users” and select the part of “emergency information”. There you can choose what information to display, including personal details such as your blood type and number of emergency contacts.

The information you add in this section will be available for anyone who touches your phone and press the word . “Emergency” on the screen lock


Crop mobile data use

Android already had some very useful options to manage how the mobile consume mobile data, but Nougat has improved with a dedicated option “Reduce data” in the section “Use of data” settings menu.

it is something like the “Doze” of the data, which restrict which applications can connect to the mobile network in the background, so theoretically it prevents return from your vacation with a bill from your operator rather inflated


Best updates

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One of the biggest changes brought Nougat not you can see at a glance: the updates are downloaded and installed in the background, so now will seem much faster. In addition, Google promised more frequent updates.

This means that these durable updates will end and will not see the screen of “optimizing applications.”




Answer your messages directly from notifications

earlier versions of Android already had some quick actions from the notification center, but Nougat it goes a step further and now lets you reply to messages directly from the notifications. In other words, you not have to access the application to do so.

Of course, to do this the application must enable the feature by. Google has opened the doors, now is the turn of developers enable the feature in their apps.




More emoji to your conversations

there are now many more emojis available on Android (72 new, to be exact), so that in total have at your disposal approximately 1500 emoji. Some of the new ones are avocado, a shark and gold, bronze and silver.




Decide the priority of your notifications

Android notifications are not all equal. Some remain at the top of the list, while others are sent at the end. Now you can decide for yourself the priority of your notifications Nougat, if you wish.

To do this you must activate the section “Tuner UI system,” you can do to keep your finger pressing gear-shaped button at the top of the screen in the Quick settings menu. This section is available from the Android version Marshmallow, but now has a section to customize and manage notifications.

In the section “Other” access “controls enable notifications” and there you customize the level of priority in the apps you want. For example apps with Level 5 can cause interruptions in full screen, while my level 0 will not display any notifications. Yes, be very careful when changing these settings


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