The Future of Android: Find Out What’s in Store

Even if users don’t necessarily need them, Android is constantly coming up with new and exciting updates to their operating system. While some of these updates are crucial, such as security updates and bug fixes, other updates are designed to improve user experience. It isn’t likely that Google will take a break on updates any time soon, either.

Even with Android 7.0 at low adoption rates — experts say that around two percent of Android users have adopted the new operating system — Android is still moving forward with newer and better plans. The following will tell you about three new Android updates you can expect to see some time in the near future.

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Android 8.0 Name Trolling

With the rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat not far behind us, Google’s senior vice president of Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer, is already tweeting about the predecessor of Nougat. Of course, the tweet was in relation to all of Android’s food-themed operating systems: Marshmallow preceded Nougat. But are we in store for an Android Oreo? How about Android Pocky (a chocolate cookie candy)? Probably not, but Lockheimer’s tweets have gotten many excited about the name of the next version of the Android operating system.

Copy Less Feature

This is one of the ways that Google will likely expand on all of Android’s “smart” capabilities. The update of the system is expected to include a feature called Copy Less. Copy Less will give your Android the ability to detect the information that you’d want to copy from a source when sending a text or email. For example, the feature could detect that you’d want a street address to send your friend if you were talking about where to meet up for lunch. Then, you could just copy the address directly into the text.

Google Maps Update

It can be frustrating to have to copy and paste an address into Google Maps, and the rumored update for Android would mean that you wouldn’t have to do that anymore. Instead, the feature would let you simply tap on an address in a message for Google Maps to open and direct you to that location.

Finger Gestures

Android 8.0 reportedly will have finger swipe gestures that will let you simply swipe a letter on the phone to bring up a variety of different screens. For example, you’ll purportedly be able to swipe the letter “C” to bring up your contacts.