16 features and news in Android Pie

Android Pie news

Android P it officially arrived a few weeks ago and here we will reveal the best features you can try in android version 9. In this long list we will tell you many options to learn about Android Pie and in some cases you will have to unlock the developer options of your mobile to use the features.

For now there are very few mobiles that have access to this new android p update, and this guide will most likely be of great help to some users, for now. If you own a Google Pixel or Essential Phone, surely you already have Android Pie on your mobile, among other brands that are updating them. Although most likely, you want to get the most out of the best features and here we come in to help you discover them.

Android Pie, news and improvements that you can use

A new way to rotate the screen in Android 9 Pie

En Android 9 Pie you can rotate the window of an application, without having to pull down the notification bar and look for the setting to activate it. Now it will be a little easier, since we only have to place the mobile horizontally and you will see that a small rotate icon next to the recent apps button.

rotate screen android pie

Obviously, you will have to touch the button so that the application is rotated and placed horizontally. In case you want to see the application vertically again, you just have to touch the same icon and that's it. Without a doubt, it is a very easy to use tool and essential in some cases.

Battery power that adapts to you

Something that we liked a lot is that the battery adapts to your use, so that we can use a little more battery on our devices. Especially those of us who have a mobile with very little battery capacity, and we do not have a top-of-the-range super mobile. The function Adaptive Battery Feature de Android Foot, It helps us to manage the energy of our mobile device. To verify it, we just have to go to the terminal settings -> Battery -> Adaptive Battery.

Adaptive BatteryAndroid Pie

Once you start using Adaptive Battery, the system will learn which apps to prioritize for use and which ones can remain idle. However, if there is an app running out of the ordinary in the background, the system will ask if you want to prevent it from happening again. On the other hand, Android Pies will also preload the apps you use most often, so they don't take up resources from your system when you activate them.

Ban nuisance notifications in Android 9.0 Pie

Another of the novelties of Android 9 Pie and very particular that many users may like and the rest of them dislike, because it is about ban annoying notifications. There are a lot of Android notifications out there, which can get overwhelming, especially since those icons clog up the screen. status bar and increase their number throughout the day.

Android 9 Pie annoying notifications

A very useful tool in Android 9 is that we can tell which notifications to dismiss immediately when they arrive on our mobile. In addition, you can configure in the notification panel manually, which ones should be shown and which ones should not.

Familiarize ourselves with new gestures

Android 9 has new gestures and you should get familiar with them so you know how to use them efficiently. Initially there was some hesitation in the Android community because new gestures are swipe that include a new modification in the part of recent applications. It scrolls from left to right instead of up or down. Although we have to tell you that once you experience the usefulness of the new gestures, you will not want to go back to the old 3 buttons.

New Android Pie gestures

In the display settings we can manage the new gestures as follows. The first thing we should do is go to the Settings -> Display -> Manage -> Swipe up on home button. This will remove the recent apps shortcut and replace the navigation dock with a button that looks like a mint tic-tac. Now you'll have to swipe up from there, to see recent apps, and then swipe up again to see the app drawer.

Although alternatively, you can swipe left on the navigation bar to see the applications or swipe up in a quick motion to enter the app drawer. It is a super useful trick for all those phones that have large screens.

Download the Android Digital Wellbeing app

Google at its developer conference that was held earlier this year, boasted of its new functions Digital Wellbeing. But unfortunately it is not officially part of Android 9 Pie, although it can be downloaded on Google Play.

Digital Wellbeing
Digital Wellbeing
Developer: Google LLC
Price: Free

The new tool offers a lot of useful functions for our mobile. Once you have downloaded and activated it, Digital Wellbeing continuously aggregates data about our usage habits, including how often we use different apps. In addition, it will tell us how many notifications we receive throughout the day and how often we use the mobile.

Digital Wellbeing app

The results can be very disturbing and if you feel guilty about seeing them, you can activate a daily app timer to set limits. It also has a function called Wind Down that reminds you to turn off your smartphone at night and sets a schedule to dim your screen to grayscale before you go to bed and after you wake up.

Easier screen fixing

We can configure the screen of our mobile from Android Lollipop, but Android Pie gives us a better way to lock the screen in an app. For this, we have to go to the Settings -> Security & location -> Advanced -> select Screen pinning.

Pin on screen Android pie

Once done, you will see a feature called “Pin” appear when you tap the icon on the recents screen.

You can interact with your recent apps

A task that was not easy in previous versions of Android, was share texts or images between applications. However, in Android Pie's new Recent Apps screen, you can select text or share images from the app area.

interact with recent apps

To do this you must press and hold the area you want to copy and the interface will respond. This feature was initially enabled in the first generation Pixel phones. Although it was never activated as such until now it works on all mobiles.

Silence your mobile device

Android Pie no longer defaults to the ringtone when you press and hold the volume rocker up or down. Instead, we can adjust the media volume of our device. Also, we can prevent it from ringing in quiet places by pressing the volume up and power buttons at the same time. And you don't need to unlock the screen to make it happen.

Get rid of the new animations in Android P

The android transitions were animations that very few users liked, and in Pie that changes to offer new elements in the interface. The menu screen now slides up from the bottom of the screen. Plus, it features a bounce effect as it goes in and out. Yes, it's a simple feature plugin, but if you don't like it you can remove it in settings.

remove Android Pie animations

For this you must go to the Settings -> Accessibility -> press the “Remove animations” button. Once you have done so, they will disappear and you will also disable the animations of other applications.

Lock the lock screen on Android 9

It may sound weird, but it is very annoying that you are on your way to a place and your phone keeps unlocking in your pocket. Android Pie offers a setting called lock, which effectively locks your phone so that only a PIN or pattern reaches the home screen.

This function disables Smart Lock, and hide notifications from the screen, in case you're worried. In order to do so, you must go to the Settings -> Security & Location -> Lock Screen Preferences -> Turn on “Show Lock Option”. Once done, you can access this ability by long pressing the power button and tapping the lock option. And to make sure that it works, you will see that a lock screen empty to indicate that the interface is blocked.

Use developer options

For experienced Android users, we have to tell you that it's amazing how many developer options that the Android 9 panel has. To access the developer options, we must go to the Settings -> System -> About phone -> Press several times on “Build number”. Once ready, we go to the options to discover all that there are. Of course, not all of them are designed for you to use daily, since Google explicitly labels them as experimental.

android 9 developer options

  • Turn on bluetooth automatically while driving: It is one of the many options that has caught our attention. And to activate it you just have to scroll down to touch the option “Function flags”, and there you must activate the option “settings_bluetooth_while_driving”. Every time your mobile detects that you are driving, it will turn on the bluetooth to connect to the stereo or headphones.
  • Night mode: Android Pie offers a dark theme, but it also features a night mode that forces third-party apps to implement their native night themes. In the developer options, a section will appear where you can activate or deactivate it.

One touch access to your alarm

With sleepyheads you can quickly check all your alarms or access the stopwatch from a shortcut in Android Pie. For this you must swipe down the notification shade -> tap on the clock at the bottom corner. To check the next alarm, just swipe down twice from the top, and you'll see it appear above the screen brightness control.

Quickly edit screenshots

Most users take screenshots almost daily, and most likely they will need to crop them. On Android 9 Pie, we have an option to quickly edit the screenshots we take. The screenshot will remain on display for one second with shortcuts to share, edit or delete.

Quick edit screenshot Android Pie

Tapping on the second option will obviously take you to a screen where you can crop, highlight, or markup your screenshot. It is ideal for when we don't have time to use another image editing application.

You can connect up to five Bluetooth audio devices

En Android 8.1 you could only pair up to 2 bluetooth audio devices at a time. But in Android 9 Pie you can connect up to 5 devices at once, but there is no simultaneous playback. So you can't start a block game or play something with all 5 smartphones.

Try the new dark theme

Many people prefer to have a dark interface and Android 9 has added an option for automatic light and dark themes. On your device you can choose the color you want for your wallpaper. We have already mentioned this particular feature in the developer options.

dark theme on android 9

But you have to understand that if you select the dark theme, it will only apply to the home screen, quick settings panel, app drawer and other parts of the phone.

Disable Hotspot “automagically”

En Android Floor you do not have to worry about data excesses. This is because there is a new feature that automatically turns off your WiFi point if there are no users connected. To do this you must go to the preferences of your WiFi Zone and select the option "Disable hotspot automatically".

Shared Wi-Fi on Android 9

For us these are the things that you should take into account when having a mobile with Android Pie, version 9 of Android. In addition, they are novelties and features that very few users know or know about this new version of the operating system. Which of all these novelties or functions did you like the most?

Will my mobile phone receive Android Pie?

This is the million dollar question for Android users. If what you have is an iPhone, we assure you that it will not receive updates to Android Pie 😉

You can download the Beta today on Pixel phones via a free over-the-air update. It began 'rolling out' on Monday, August 6, according to Google. You should already see it in the software update menu, if you have a Pixel, of the graceful models.

The Essential phone is also getting Android 9 Pie out of the box, with the essential ad, “We are proud to bring Android 9 Pie to Essential phones the same day it is released! Check your phone now for the update', and adding a cake emoji to the bottom of the tweet.

Phones that will receive Android Pie

The phones that will get Android Pie first:

  • Google Pixel 2
  • Pixel 2 XL
  • Google Pixel
  • pixel XL
  • essential phone

Android Pie release date: around December 21, 2018. Available for:

  • Sony
  • Xiaomi
  • HMD global
  • Oppo
  • Living
  • OnePlus
  • phone selection Android One

Do you hope to get your hands on the latest version of Android Pie soon? Leave a comment below, if you have a mobile with Android Pie and you can contribute some more news. Also comment on which of these new features and functions of Android Pie 9 has caught your attention the most.

And to finish, a good video, although in English, of the main novelties of the new Android Pie version, from the friends of Androidcentral:

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