7 Android Marshmallow features

Google 'borrowed' from iOS

For years, Android fanatics have been accusing Apple  “borrowing” its best iOS features from Google’s mobile operating system. With the upcoming release of iOS 9 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow, however, the tables finally turn.Here are all the “new” Android features that might look very, very familiar to iOS users.

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Android Pay ≠ Apple Pay

Goodbye Google Wallet, hello Android Pay. Google’s new mobile payment system has a lot more in common with Apple Pay than just a name. Android Pay lets you upload your credit card information and uses NFC technology to conduct transactions at a pay terminal.

Native Fingerprint Authentification

Since 2013, Touch ID has given us a secure way to unlock our iPhones and authenticate purchases. With Marshmallow, Android users will finally get to experience the power of their fingerprint.Android 6.0 brings fingerprint authentification as a vital part of Android Pay and the feature has been centralized around the standard API.

Intuitive Selected Text Editing

In previous versions of Android, when you’d select a string of text, the toolbar with the options to cut, copy, paste and more surfaced at the top of the screen. In Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the editing toolbar now hovers directly above the selected text—a more intuitive interface first seen in iOS devices.

More Control Over App Permissions

Marshmallow gives users more ways to manage their app permissions. With Android 6.0, users get a notification every time an app wants to access a certain part of their device—like the camera, microphone, or location services.

Activate Voice Search from the Lock Screen

Android Marshmallow will let users activate Google Now’s voice search directly via a lock screen shortcut. Simply swipe from the lower left corner to start and tah-dah! You can immediately start asking Google Now anything.

Disable background Tasks For Each App

Marshmallow also introduces “Doze” mode, letting Android users turn on or off the battery optimizations for any given app. Doze basically will limit certain background tasks to save battery life.Similarly, iPhone users have been able to enable or disable Background App Refresh on a per-app basis in Settings since iOS 7.

Enable Repeat Calls Under Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb has been a godsend for smartphone users looking to get a good night’s sleep. However, sometimes emergencies do occur overnight. Android 6.0 has added the option to allow for Repeat Callers to come through under its Do Not Disturb section—a feature that iPhone users have been taking advantage-of for a while.

References

http://www.macworld.com/article/2975272/ios/7-android-marshmallow-features-google-borrowed-from-ios.html#slide

http://www.greenbot.com/article/2932543/5-things-apple-announced-at-wwdc-that-are-borrowed-from-android.html

http://www.greenbot.com/article/2927463/standardized-fingerprint-support-coming-with-android-m.html

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/06/01/android-m-do-not-disturb

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