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Android P is the ninth version of Google's mobile operating system. Every year, the internet giant rolls out different pre-versions where developers and advanced users can test its different features. Any fault they find in the system reaches the engineers. The ordinary user usually has to wait a little longer to receive the new versions of Android. And this waiting time is multiplied if they don't use pure Android, since brands must adapt their personalization layers to the new features that Google implements.
But to test the new features of Android P you don't need to have knowledge of an engineer or developer, or get into the launcher of the phone to install strange things. The medium Digital Trends has compiled a few applications with which we can have an experience on our phone close to what phones with Android P will have, without modification, in its purest version. And what are these news? Well, we will have a renewed launcher, with different aesthetics, a new volume setting, intelligent responses to notifications and screenshot editing, among many others. At least these 5 we can have on our phone. How about we start telling you how to get the apps and how they work?
Android P Launcher
It is the first thing we see as soon as we unlock our phone. The 'launcher' is the most important application on our entire phone, because thanks to it, and as its name indicates, we will be able to 'launch' the applications, configure the phone's design, apply different icons... There are launchers (or launchers ) more customizable than others and you can try some very good ones yourself like Nova or Apex.In this case we are going to stop at this 'port' (exclusive application of a phone that 'ports' to work on others) of the launcher that will be installed in the Pixel Launchers.
In a link on the XDA Developers page we can download the launcher. To install it, we just have to press the start button and choose it among the different launchers that you have. If we press the screen for a few seconds we can access the settings, to place an unread notification dot or adjust the same way to the icons on the screen. Aesthetically it is sober and functional, with a search bar in the main dock. A free launcher that we can install today on our phone.
Expanded Volume Setting
Volume is something we have to deal with on our phone every day.There are situations throughout the day in which we should not have the volume activated, but should allow them to call us by phone, especially important contacts. Either at one point we want the vibration, but not the sound, or the other way around... In Android P they have created a pop-up menu with all the possible variants of volume settings, a window that will be superimposed on any application that you have open and with which you can manage the sounds of the phone in a much simpler and more practical way.
On the XDA Labs page we can download the Android P Volume Slider application completely free of charge. Be wary of any other app on the Play Store that claims to do the same thing, they ask for too many permissions for what they're actually supposed to do. With this application you will have a widget in which you can place different switches.When you press a switch the slider will appear and you can adjust the corresponding volume. So you don't have to move the physical buttons on the phone to change the sound.
Smart replies to notifications
We want everything simpler and easier. The less we have to use our fingers to carry out operations with our phone, the better, and in this sense Android P goes. Gmail has already gone ahead with intelligent responses to emails. For example, if you receive a document, the response email will most likely show the response 'Received' so that you can choose it with a simple touch of your finger, without having to write it down. Well, in Android P we will be able to have quick responses in the notification curtain, next to the message we have received.
To have intelligent responses to notifications we have to download the Reply application, directly from the trusted APK Mirror repository.It is one of the most reliable repositories, where we can download any utility with some certainty that it is not a malicious program. Once downloaded and installed, we proceed to configure it as the app itself tells us. At the moment, the application offers intelligent responses to the Facebook Messenger apps, Slack, Twitter direct messages and, yes, WhatsApp. We have tested it and although it is in English it detects the Spanish language and offers us short but effective answers that can help us get out of trouble.
Capture Marker
There are some more ornate customization layers, such as MIUI, which lets you draw and mark your own screenshots, but on Android this was not possible until the arrival of Android P. Again, on the XDA Developers forum a user has created an application that will be the same as the one we will see integrated into the new Android system. Once you take the capture and share it with the application, you will have two tools, and multiple colors, to mark, color and annotate within the capture.A very useful tool if we usually work taking screenshots.
