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Reports making the rounds suggest that search giant Google is now looking to expand the options offered by the power button menu. These new options may allow users quickly launch tasks or the voice assistant rather than the traditional power off and restart device options.
The new options will modify the layout to create room for smart home controls and the wallet options containing the user’s bank(s) and loyalty cards. The standard buttons for emergency calls and power off are moved to the top to make room for these new options.
The new options can grant users with instant access to their home lighting, cameras, thermostat and everything related to IoT. You can now control them with a single click, or you could tap and hold which takes you to the corresponding app or reveal additional options.
Presently, there is no confirmation concerning third-party apps and if the power button will be customizable with them. We believe that we would discover more details about this new feature and what else it may offer in the coming days, especially as Google has pushed back the Android 11 Beta Launch show.
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The Android 11 Beta 1 was expected to experience some delays, but somehow a number of users around the globe received it, giving us a look in at some of the new features. This will include a new Power Menu , a “Bubble” menu and updates to the Pixel Launcher.
In these new features, the Music playback controls can now be fixed into the notification shade by enabling the “Media resumption” option. This new option has a collapsed view, sharing a number of rows with quick toggle, and an expanded view which resembles a music player widget.
New icon shapes are also available for the home screen, with the present ones being a Pebble in an irregular circle, a Tapered Rectangle as a square with the corners cut off and Vessel (square-ish with some side detail).
Wi-Fi enhanced MAC randomization is also available and this picks a new MAC address every time you connect to Wi-Fi. Some other features that were touted to be in the Android 11 Beta 1 like the scrolling screenshots feature and a clock customization for the lock screen were not available as at the time of its release.
Hopefully, we will get to know more about the Android 11 in the coming days.
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