Android 10 Launches Today, and Pixel Phones Get the Day One Update

'Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which
we've been examining for most of the year as the "Android Q Beta,"
starts rolling out to devices today. As usual, Android 10 is arriving
on Pixel phones first (even the three-year-old Pixel 1), and Google
says it is "working with a number of partners to launch or upgrade
devices to Android 10 this year." Google has introduced a new branding
strategy for Android, by the way, so there's no "Q" snack name with
this release. In 2019, it's just "Android 10." Android 10 brings a
number of changes to the world's most popular mobile operating system.

First up, devices are getting "fully gestural" navigation, which lets
you navigate around the phone with swipe gestures. Just like the
implementation on the iPhone X, gesture navigation removed the need
for a dedicated space for navigation buttons, allowing for more space
for app content. There's finally full support for a dark theme, which
will turn the entire system UI and any supported apps from the usual
black text on a white background to white text on a black background.
(That option significantly reduces the amount of light a phone puts
out and saves battery life on OLED displays.) Google has also promised
dark mode support for "all" of the Google apps in time for Android
10's launch, so we should be seeing updates to Gmail, Google Play,
Google Maps, and a million other Google apps sometime soon.

Other features of Android 10 include a faster share sheet, a "bubbles"
API for floating apps, 230 new emoji, improved security and privacy
options, and smarter notification panel.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/09/03/218224

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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