hey everyone I'm Mike Simon I'm from PC 00:01 world and I'm here at Google i/o where 00:03 they just introduced a new preview of 00:06 Android P and I got a phone running it 00:08 now and I'm gonna take you through the 00:09 best feature
[ADAM PATRICK MURRAY]
it's right here nice well 00:15 what are you gonna show us first
[SIMON] so 00:17 there's three that are three features 00:19 that are kind of new the first thing 00:21 you'll notice when you swipe down for 00:22 the notification shade looks different 00:24 we got some rounded corners and some 00:27 some more definition between the quick 00:28 settings and the notification panel 00:30 quick settings are now a little bit more 00:33 pronounced as there's blue when they're 00:35 on there they're clear when they're off 00:37 and you can just like before swipe down 00:39 and get a list
[MURRAY] what about the over here 00:42 like the other screen
[SIMON] click the settings 00:45 you got there 00:46 oops sorry oh that was that was a 00:48 mistake well we'll get to later
[MURRAY] oh yeah 00:55 is there any new settings
[SIMON] because that 00:57 looks the same and ya know they look all about 01:02 the same okay as far as the options it's 01:05 mostly just a visual change mostly just 01:07 a visual change it's a little cleaner 01:08 and a little clearer to see what's on 01:10 and what's off yeah 01:13 so a couple of changes they made to this 01:17 the Do Not Disturb button right now it's 01:21 off so you can see all of your 01:22 notifications that turn it on and bang 01:24 they're gone
[MURRAY] so don't get any notifications 01:27
SIMON] right if you get these three 01:28 buttons here they set up this too to 01:31 show you notifications so if you press 01:32 one of those it sends one but you're not 01:34 gonna see it until you turn that off and 01:36 there's your new one of those is new it 01:39 says now I'm not sure which one so if 01:41 everything's still there everything is I 01:43 can't see it so it's like just shuts 01:46 down the phone also a new setting when 01:49 you put your phone down face down and 01:52 automatically turns that on so you 01:54 you know won't be kind of inundated with 01:56 messages because if they're just 01:57 assuming if you put it facedown you 01:58 don't want to look at your phone so 02:00 that's that's just so just a fun little 02:01 setting I like that so okay now I just 02:06 did that by accident but that's another 02:07 new setting of the volume you put it up 02:11 and it automatically controls the media 02:13 first oh perfect so you won't be 02:15 lowering and raising your ringtone but 02:17 you don't want to do it which is 02:19 something that we do all the time but 02:21 what if you want to do change your 02:22 ringtone was a little setting button 02:24 click on that gear and there you go 02:25 you've still got your three options ring 02:28 but when you see if you can see media is 02:30 the one that's that's the primary one 02:33 the high-level one so you know nine 02:35 times out of ten probably nine and a 02:37 half times out of ten you want to lower 02:38 the volume on a video or something so 02:40 just press down and now you're 02:42 controlling so that that's awesome 02:44 so you can't get the three sliders in 02:46 the notification shade anymore huh I 02:47 don't see it yeah and I don't see it he 02:50 really you get you gotta press that okay 02:53 go into the sound settings but at least 02:54 it looks like for phone there's at 02:56 least a toggle between vibrate bring it 03:00 up and then there's a toggle right right 03:02 up here you can click on vibrate click 03:03 that for no and that's the regular 03:06 ringer okay also if you get though 03:07 there's a there's a new little um 03:09 gesture if you want to just turn on 03:12 silent mode you hold down the volume 03:14 down and the power button or power-ups 03:18 volume up in power and that turns on 03:24 vibrate mode so that says if have 03:26 volume on and you just want to quickly 03:27 turn it off instead of a mute switch 03:29 like like the iPhone has and 1 Plus 03:31 Has, so you just press volume up and 03:34 power I think it let me let me just 03:36 double check their volume down in power 03:40
[murray] so okay so it still isn't 03:44 volume down and power screen screen show 03:46
[simon]
yeah um I still hold it a little bit 03:49 longer a let me just try that 03:55 one more time 03:55 hold on no you're right it is oh there 04:03 you go 04:03 oh call your mom and volume down in 04:05 Screen still it's a great job 04:07 you want to keep sliding out though or 04:09 you got to get used to I gotta get used 04:10 to this but I use it on the 04:12 iPhone 10 and as you I'll show you in a 04:14 minute it's quite a bit different from 04:15 the way the two things function it's 04:18 still a button yeah so this we're on if 04:21 you use an iPhone 10 it has a home 04:23 indicator you can't press it you have to 04:25 gesture this is still a button if you 04:27 want assistant you hold it down and you 04:30 know it brings up that and if you want 04:32 to go back to the home you press that 4:34 it brings up brings goes back to that as 04:35 [murray]
well it looks like it still has a 04:37 contextual back when you when you need 04:40 it [simon] when you need it yes so and sure so 04:42 if you're in Chrome or something to get 04:44 back here
[murray]
which is something you don't 04:45 get on the iphone
04:47 [simon]
yeah it will bring up the 04:49 back button but the rcents button is off 04:52 and these are all customizable there's a 04:54 there's a preference pane and 04:57 settings where you can turn on the the 04:59 the new gesture based navigation if you 05:02 don't like e you can go back to the old 05:03 one with the recent button the back 05:04 button and the regular circular homeland 05:07 oh nice so this is the new home you know 05:11 this this new elongated home button so 05:14 if you want to get to your recent apps 05:16 there's no more recents the square 05:18 button so you kind of just push up on it just once 05:21 it brings you right to your recent apps 05:27 which are now horizontal instead of 05:29 vertical and you just scroll through you 05:32 pick the one you want and there you go 05:33 to get back to home you just press the 05:37 button like you did before 05:38 [murray] so now you have to do two swipes to do 05:41 to get to
[simon] to get to the rest of your 05:43 apps you do it again to get to the app drawer 05:46 yeah one cool feature they have on this 05:49 is you can select text by long-pressing 05:51 so if you just want to grab a piece of 05:54 text copy it and then move it over to 05:56 here you can use those are actually 05:59 active windows so it's not just like a 06:02 snapshot there's a live windows where 06:04 you can kind of click in there grab some 06:06 text or search for something or whatever 06:08 you need to do and you know 06:10 without jumping back and forth between 06:12 all these apps
[murray]
what 06:13 about the maybe try to go all the 06:15 way back to something that's out of RAM 06:16 maybe because I wonder if it has to be 06:19 loaded in RAM for that\
[simon]
looks like it 06:20 because you can't I don't see 06:24 yeah cuz if you try to if you try to 06:30 actually move the screen okay so well 06:33 that that's the new quitting the same as 06:35 before you just swipe up yeah but yeah 06:38 you can't get down anywhere so it's just 06:40 kind of a it's like a kind of like a 06:44 dynamic screenshot almost interesting 06:46 yeah so you know you can you can search 06:50 and I'm gonna bring up the oh just bring 06:52 up the Google app and search what you're 06:53 looking for there
[murray]
what about the quick 06:56 look at the the reason it's a little 06:57 swipe you thing 06:58 [simon]
oh yeah right that's that's cool so if 07:01 you're on like if you're in in chrome 07:03 and you're looking at something if you 07:05 swipe it's the decison swiping it up 07:07 it's five to the right into the left you 07:10 can actually just quickly scroll through 07:12 your things and when you let go it 07:14 brings up what you are looking for so 07:16 instead of doing this that and throwing 07:19 just quickly zoom zoom into an app that 07:21 you that you want grab it and go it
[murray]
does 07:24 it only go back the last like five so 07:27 that look like a limitation like I'm not 07:29 sure let's see how many are open your 07:30 messages so if you go one two three okay 07:36 it looks like it's oh no no it's it's 07:38 all there okay okay so if you just 07:43 interesting so you just you just have to 07:45 do it as if you're doing a mouse so like 07:49 like when you reach the end you just 07:51 kind of like little bit there yeah 07:53 interesting but it does it does go to 07:55 all of them and as soon as you let go it 07:58 brings it in to where you were
[murray] so what 08:01 do you think you excited about the these 08:02 Features
[simon] yeah I dig gesture navigation I 08:05 mean on the iPhone 10 it was one of my 08:06 favorite features I always I never liked 08:10 the physical home buttons so I you know 08:12 gestures are something that I dig I wish 08:16 it would have come earlier because 08:17 Android phones haven't had buttons for a 08:19 long time just seemed a little overdue 08:21 very true but I'll take it now rather 08:23 than never so yeah it's cool and then 08:25 you're gonna be doing some more in-depth 08:26 looks at it well yeah I'm gonna I'm 08:28 gonna definitely take a look at it 08:29 compared to the iPhone 10 see how things 08:31 are different what you can customize 08:33 what you can customize but I definitely 08:35 seems like a great step in a direction 08:37 that even if it's overdue it's it's the 08:40 right one awesome 08:43 [Music]