Android P = Pie

Mr E

Now rolling out on Pixel devices too...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/06/android-p-is-for-pie/
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-9-pie-name-download-features-whats-new-892566/

• Adaptive Battery: uses on-device machine learning to understand your usage and prioritize battery power on the apps and services you use most often
• Adaptive Brightness: learns which brightness levels you prefer based on your surroundings, and automatically adjusts your phone’s brightness level for you
• App Actions: These little shortcuts, located in the app drawer, will predict what you’re about to do so you can get it done more quickly. For instance, if you normally open the app drawer, open the phone app, and call your best friend, you’ll eventually see an App Action suggesting you do so once you open your app drawer.
• App Slices: We haven’t been able to test out App Slices yet, but Google says it will make its way to Android Pie sometime in the fall. App Slices are similar to App Actions, but they appear in the Google Search bar. As an example, if you type “Hawaii” in Search, an App Slice might suggest you look at your recent Hawaii vacation photos in the Google Photos app.
• New gesture navigation: Android 9.0 Pie features a new way to navigate around your device. Gone are the traditional back, home, and recent apps keys. Instead, you get a single pill-shaped home button that you can tap to go home, swipe right to access recent apps, or swipe up to access your app drawer and app suggestions.
• Security and privacy features: Android Pie introduces plenty of new security and privacy features to help keep your data safe. One of the most helpful features introduced in the update is that applications are no longer able to access your mic, camera, or sensors when it goes idle.
• A ton of little changes: There are a bunch of other little features Google included in Android 9.0 Pie. Smart Text Selection, redesigned quick settings menu, improved notification bundling, manual switching between light/dark themes, improved autofill, revamped always-on display, and new volume shortcuts are among the many little changes in Android Pie.

corkie

[XDA] Android Oreo’s rollback protection required on phones launching with Android Pie

Android Pie (Android 9) just went live today for the Google Pixel, Google Pixel 2, and even the Essential Phone. We’re learning as much as we can about the release from interviews (the Google Pixel 3 will only have gesture navigation!), the AOSP code drop, and lastly the Compatibility Definition Document (CDD). We posted about a new feature for “heavyweight” apps earlier today, but now we’ve found that Google has changed their wording on a feature introduced in Android Oreo: rollback protection. The feature is made possible by Android Verified Boot 2.0 (also known simply as Verified Boot), however, OEMs were not required to implement AVB 2.0 in the Oreo release. Now, Google is mandating that all devices launching with Android Pie support Verified Boot, and by extension, rollback protection.

Just hope the OEM's implement it better than Xiaomi, and allow the feature to be disabled by the user, or when bootloaders are unlocked.

corkie

Testing Treble Pie on kenzo at present!

See this thread: - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=107865764&postcount=325