Android P gets more AI to make your phone smarter

Posted on Wednesday, May 09 2018 @ 11:32 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
More about Android P was revealed at the Google I/O 2018 conference. The new version of Android will put machine learning at its core, to make your phone smarter than ever before. A run-down of some of the new features can be read at the Google blog. One thing is for sure, over the next couple of years your pocked device is going to get a lot more AI. For example, Adaptive Battery will help you to squeeze more battery life out of your device by throttling back apps you rarely use.
Android P makes your smartphone smarter, helping it learn from and adapt to you. Take battery life, for instance—I think all of us often wish we had more of it. In Android P, we partnered with DeepMind to build Adaptive Battery, which prioritizes battery power only for the apps and services you use the most, to help you squeeze the most out of your battery. We also used machine learning to create Adaptive Brightness, which learns how you like to set the brightness slider given your surroundings.

Across the platform, your phone will help you better navigate your day, using context to give you smart suggestions based on what you like to do the most and automatically anticipating your next action. App Actions, for instance, help you get to your next task more quickly by predicting what you want to do next. Say you connect your headphones to your device, Android will surface an action to resume your favorite Spotify playlist. Actions show up throughout Android in places like the Launcher, Smart Text Selection, the Play Store, the Google Search app and the Assistant.


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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