[ Android Pie ] Let You Know The 20 Tips & Tricks

Dinesh Vishwakarma

Get the most out of Google's Android 9 software with these easy-to-follow productivity-boosting tips.[br][br][br] [br][br]Gestures, shortcuts, and getting around[br][br]1. Pie's new gesture navigation system has some noteworthy nuances that are all too easy to miss: First, in addition to being able to get to your app drawer by swiping up twice from the navigation bar, you can get there by doing a long-swipe up from that same area — from the bottom of the screen to the halfway point or higher. [br][br]2. Little-known fact: With those aforementioned Android 9 navigation gestures, you don't actually have to swipe precisely from the pill-shaped button at the bottom of the screen. While on your home screen, you can swipe upward from anywhere in the navigation bar or the dock — the area that holds the search bar and your favorite app icons.[br][br]3. On a similar note, Pie's gesture commands for moving quickly between apps — swiping toward the right to scroll among recently used apps or flicking toward the right to snap between your two most recent processes — will work anywhere in that navigation bar area. Despite what most folks seem to think, there's no need to start with your finger on the pill.[br][br]4. Looking to do a little housekeeping and clear away all your recently used apps from Pie's Overview list? Swipe up once from the nav bar to open the Overview interface, then scroll all the way to the left of the app-representing cards. Once you've moved past the leftmost card, you'll see a "Clear all" command that'll do exactly what you desire.[br][br]5. Android Pie tries to predict what you're likely to need next and then offer up specific actions — commands within apps, like calling a particular person or opening a certain Slack channel — at the top of your app drawer. If you see a shortcut there that strikes you as being especially useful, you can touch and hold it and then drag it onto your home screen for permanent ongoing access.[br][br]6. You can also find any shortcut offered within Pie's app drawer by pressing and holding the icon for the associated app and looking at the menu of options that appears. You can touch and hold any item from that menu to drag it onto your home screen for future use, too.[br][br][br] [br][br]7. Android 9 introduces a new button-based shortcut for silencing your phone in a jiff: Simply press your device's physical power and volume-up keys together, and you'll feel a brief vibration letting you know all sounds are disabled. (Annoyingly, the shortcut works only when your screen is on — and it works only one way and won't toggle your sound back from silent into the "on" position.)[br]If the shortcut doesn't work for you, look for the line labeled "Shortcut to prevent ringing" in the Sound section of your system settings. [br][br]8. Android's split-screen command for viewing two apps on screen at the same time is a bit tough to find as of the Pie release: You first have to open the Overview interface, then tap the icon of the app you want and select "Split screen" from the menu that appears.[br][br]9. Provided your phone has a traditional (i.e., not in-screen) fingerprint sensor, take note: Touching your finger to the fingerprint sensor in Pie, even just for a split second, will keep your screen from timing out and going dark.[br][br]10. While your notification panel is open, you can tap the clock in the upper-left corner of the screen to jump directly to your Clock app and manage your alarms.[br][br]11. When an alarm is set, swipe down twice from the top of your screen and look above the brightness slider to see it.[br][br]12. Want to check on your battery status? With the notification panel open, tap the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to hop right into your phone's full stamina summary.[br][br]13. Speaking of battery stats, if you're looking for detailed info about which apps are using up your phone's power, that data has moved to a curiously tucked-away location as of Pie — but it is still present : From the Battery section of your system settings (the same screen you see after tapping the battery icon in your notification panel), tap the three-dot menu icon in the upper-right corner and then select "Battery usage."[br][br][br] [br][br]14. Pie presents two options for making fast adjustments to your notification settings: You can long-press on any notification to get quick commands for disabling or configuring the associated app's alert-sending ability — or you can tap the "Manage notifications" text at the bottom of your notification panel to jump directly to the "App notifications" area of your system settings.[br][br]15. Most icons within Pie's Quick Settings panel — what you see when you swipe down from the top of your screen — hold a hidden shortcut: Long-press the icon, and you'll be taken to the relevant area of your system settings (provided, of course, that such an area exists for that function).[br][br]Next-level options and commands[br][br]16. You can also press and hold an image within an app's Overview thumbnail — a photo on a web page, for instance — and then share it directly to any other app on your phone.[br][br]17. Perhaps the coolest part of all: You can select and copy text within an image right from Android 9's Overview screen — words in a screenshot you captured, for instance, or words within an illustration on a website. Once you've selected the text, you can copy it, search for it, or share it to any other app.[br][br][br] [br][br][br]18. Pie also has a new feature that can learn how you use apps over time and then limit the power-draining capabilities of any programs you don't open often. Look for "Adaptive Battery" in the Battery section of your device's settings to get started.[br][br][br] [br][br]Connectivity and security[br][br]19. Pie introduces plenty of security improvements , but one newly present option works only if you activate it. It's called lockdown mode , and it disables all Smart Lock and biometric security options and then requires you to enter a PIN, password, or pattern in order to get past your lock screen. The idea is that it'd keep anyone — be it a law enforcement officer or a random hooligan — from being able to force you to unlock your phone with your finger, face, or any other convenience-oriented method.[br][br][br] [br][br]To activate it, go to the Security section of your system settings, tap the option labeled "Lock screen preferences," and activate the toggle next to "Show lockdown option."[br][br]Customization and control [br][br]20. For even more serenity, explore the newly added options for controlling exactly how Android 9's Do Not Disturb mode works. The settings are a bit buried: Go to the Apps & Notifications section of your system settings, tap "Notifications," "Do Not Disturb," "Notifications" (yes, again!), and then select the line labeled "Custom."[br][br][br] [br][br][br]Source: COMPUTERWORLD

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