Notifications are getting a major overhaul as well. With Android L, you will be able to interact with notifications from the lock screen<\/strong>. Double tap the notification to jump to the app or swipe it away. Notifications in Android L are smart too; it’ll learn how you use your phone and will offer notifications in order of highest importance, <\/strong>a type of prioritization we’ve already seen with Google’s priority inbox<\/a> for Gmail.<\/p>\n In-app notifications have been tweaked as well, and now allow you to reply or dismiss a notification easily.<\/p>\n Android L will also get updated security. The operating system can detect when your Android Wear<\/a> watch is close and will unlock your phone automatically<\/strong> without needing to enter a pin. If the watch gets too far away, Android L will prompt the user for a password. Google is extending this security feature to its Chromebooks<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n Google is also taking battery life serious with Project Volta<\/strong>. Developers will have a new battery tracking tool to see exactly what a device is doing with battery power<\/a>. It’ll be much more advanced than the battery tracker currently in Android. The battery saver mode will turn off non-essential services to squeeze some more life out of your battery, something we’ve seen phone makers like Samsung implement into their handsets already.<\/p>\n No word about when we can expect to see Android L just yet.<\/p>\n Header image source: Google<\/p>\n While we won’t be seeing a new version of Android just yet, Google teased the upcoming operating system at Google I\/O 2014. In addition to the major Android redesign, Android “L” will focus on polishing the operating system. There’s a new, faster runtime environment called ART, which will make apps work more fluidly and preserve … Continue reading “Google I\/O 2014: Google teases the next version of Android”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":68643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-68584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Android](\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/DSC0057-568x377.jpg\" "\\"Android")
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